Radiator finally!!

[phyrman]

Picked up the radiator today! The core is MX, wider tubes, 14 fins / inch very efficient
The green object is a super thin plastic cutting board I use this to shield the fins from the water pump
I learned this trick years ago when installing an aluminum radiator into my tiger
The only other mods were to turn the inlet and outlet towards the middle with a slight downturn

Oh, I am running a 12" Flex a lite elec fan set up as a pusher, rated at 1369 CFM

Almost ready to fire it up

Bruce

 

[Jimjordan2]

Looking really sweet Bruce. Waiting anxiously to see the finished product.

 

[DanR]

Bruce, Good thing you are not utilizing a manual fan....Your top hose would get cut with the blades.

IF I see correctly your bottom connection exits out the back with the 90 elbow in stead of under the bottom? That must be why you had to splice the bottom hose?

Looks like you picked a winner with the electric fan!

I like the idea of the "Green" sheet used to protect the fins while installing or removing those components.

 

[phyrman]

Looking really sweet Bruce. Waiting anxiously to see the finished product.

Me too Jim!!!!

 

[PROCRAFT]

Perfect!

 

[PROCRAFT]

Picked up the radiator today! The core is MX, wider tubes, 14 fins / inch very efficient
The green object is a super thin plastic cutting board I use this to shield the fins from the water pump
I learned this trick years ago when installing an aluminum radiator into my tiger
The only other mods were to turn the inlet and outlet towards the middle with a slight downturn

Oh, I am running a 12" Flex a lite elec fan set up as a pusher, rated at 1369 CFM

Almost ready to fire it up

Bruce

Having said that why don't you switch the outlets left for right and then you wouldn't have a hose problem or splice as Dan says?????? Your modifying the rad anyway ??????

 

[phyrman]

Having said that why don't you switch the outlets left for right and then you wouldn't have a hose problem or splice as Dan says?????? Your modifying the rad anyway ??????

I just turned the outlets inwards. The thermo housing on the Cologne is low and very close to the radiator This makes it easier to connect the lower hose.

 

[DanR]

Joel, It is because of the required way the thermostat housing has to be modified. The stock housing points straight downward and will hit the Alpine crossmember unless "turned up and forward at a 45 +/- degree. When it is turned up and forward enough to clear the crossmember it is then too close to the radiator for an easy clearance to the radiator connection if you are trying to make a connection at the bottom left side..

In the 1st PIC you can see there is very little working room to fit a short angled hose. In the 2nd PIC both the unmodified and the modified housing are shown.

I went with the next way the 3rd PIC depicts to work the bottom one piece Gates 22080 hose.

The 4th PIC shows both the unmodified OFY and my recommendation for modification to the top water neck....turned to point to the left. This to me is a very neat way to arrange the routing and flow, just more expensive. A fellow member came up with a way to utilize the stock housing (Upper) and a hose with curve that would get angled back toward the left but it had to be spliced. Still a neat way to go and less expensive.

 

[sd_pace]

phyman, does the radiator you did increase the amount of coolant in the system?
(does it hold more water?)

 

[PROCRAFT]

Joel, It is because of the required way the thermostat housing has to be modified. The stock housing points straight downward and will hit the Alpine crossmember unless "turned up and forward at a 45 +/- degree. When it is turned up and forward enough to clear the crossmember it is then too close to the radiator for an easy clearance to the radiator connection if you are trying to make a connection at the bottom left side..

In the 1st PIC you can see there is very little working room to fit a short angled hose. In the 2nd PIC both the unmodified and the modified housing are shown.

I went with the next way the 3rd PIC depicts to work the bottom one piece Gates 22080 hose.

The 4th PIC shows both the unmodified OFY and my recommendation for modification to the top water neck....turned to point to the left. This to me is a very neat way to arrange the routing and flow, just more expensive. A fellow member came up with a way to utilize the stock housing (Upper) and a hose with curve that would get angled back toward the left but it had to be spliced. Still a neat way to go and less expensive.

Dan,. All Greek to me from the looks of Bruce's pictures I'm thinking there's another avenue. The picture is the mod to a Ford thermo housing that I modified I'actually machined one back in the stone age.

 

[phyrman]

phyman, does the radiator you did increase the amount of coolant in the system?
(does it hold more water?)

Prob negligible on the amount of coolant vs a stock radiator

 

[PROCRAFT]

Prob negligible on the amount of coolant vs a stock radiator

The key is not the amount of coolant but how well you cool it!

 

[whiskytangofoxtrot]

There are some Chinese companies on eBay selling aluminum radiators that drop right in. however I got one from a company that flipped the schematic. I had to use spacers, but they refunded my money and didn't want it back. It does keep the car cool.