Help! inexpensive source for new Camaro radiator

[Guest Anonymous]

The cheapest radiator I found was $114.00 at Discount radiator. I wiil have to wait Mondy to see if it is the 4cyl./V8 combo Modine # 952. Any one know of a cheaper site. I have a federal id tax # and a business credit card to help qualify as wholesale.

[Modern Motorsports Ltd]

I know a few have used the camaro core successfully, it did NOT work for me just for what it's worth. After a few minutes of idling it would climb steadily with my flexalite 2250cfm fan running. Just my .0001c US/.02c CD. A Griffin/Howe etc are ~180 and twice the rad IMO, just an option. I much prefer more rad and less fan......works better when the ee gremlins strike (which they have on occasion).

[Guest Anonymous]

I am a little skeptical of that plastic radiator too. I remember one hot Sunday summer afternoon, a couple hundred miles from home in Redmond Oregon, under a shade tree in a bank parking lot, pulling out a Corvette radiator trying to glue it back together to get home. I do not like electric fans either which may be the solution to cool these plastic/ aluminum wonders. Summitt has free shipping and a four row old fashioned brass-copper radiator for $150.00. I should see what the actual overall dimensions are though. (And they will extend me credit)

[z ya]

I have had just the opposite experience with my

Griffin. That thing was too thick and the blk mjc

fan had a hard time pulling air through it. With

the Cam fan if was thin enough for the fan too

pull the air though. The sucker worked great!

[pparaska]

The Black Magic 150 (the biggest) is WAY overrated, IMO.

 

The OE fans really pull current - and that's means they also pull alot of air. IF the Blak Magic fan is not doing the job, I say move up to a Taurus or GT Mustang fan (or other good OE fans).

[Guest Anonymous]

I am really on the fence on this decsion. My old ways say: go thick old style radiator and mechanical fan, but my common sense reasoning says: thin and high electric fan flow.

[Guest Anonymous]

I agree with Pete, my taurus fan literally picks things up off the floor and sucks them onto the radiator, and thats even with a a/c evaporator in front of it. You can feel the air from it behind the car with the hood open.

 

Consider that the JTR manual was written some time ago, and at the time it worked for Mike Knell, I think he's even had some re-think and different methods since he wrote the manual from what I've heard.

 

Also consider he's in Livermore Ca. which is a fairly mild climate, not as hot as some area's of the country probably (and its also pretty windy, through the pass they have tons of wind mills producing electricity, not that this has any bearing on the fan he used just background info.. ). *shrug* Depending on the climate, YMMV.

 

I guess what I'm trying to say is the JTR manual is a super great outline, but you can deviate from it and have a successful swap.

 

Regards,

 

Lone