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Aluminum radiators - experience, suggestions

  •  01-02-2007, 12:05 PM

    Aluminum radiators - experience, suggestions

    Hi,

    I've got a cooling problem. 

    I have a 1973 with a stock original radiator which was marginal at best in the past.  Cooling was irregular.  Not bad enough to warrant a replacement but enough to annoy.  I have had it flushed.  When I bought the car 2 years ago my first addition was an electric fan so the stock cooling system already has some assist. 

    I have had a Moss supercharger installed recently and this has exaggerated the effect.  No surprises there - it's getting more energy from the gasoline and not all of that energy gets to the back wheels.  But it's no longer just an irritant - now I have to fix it.

    I could replace the stock radiator.  Aluminum radiators cost twice as much.  Stock is about $250 and Ron Davis aluminum is $550.

    Any ideas or experience on which way to go?

    BTW: The supercharger kit is well engineered and is straight forward to install.  And it transforms an anaemic, strangled TR into the machine that the original fuel injection cars were - but without the on / off power delivery.   

     

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