Griffin Radiator Home made brackets/ top cover plate

[565bbchevy]

I just replaced my old Griffen radiator with a new Griffen in July from Summit and I paid $246 then. They are now $267
http://www.summitracing.com/parts/gri-8-00010/overview/
It has 2 x 1.25" tubes and is about as wide and tall as you can go in a Gbody.
It comes with a petcock on lower drivers side and the water neck is machined and uses a AN fitting.
Also it is all aluminum construction my old one has the epoxy.
Mine I polished before installing and I am using my old Griffen for a future project.
With the 26" core they also fit the Intrepid dual electric fans almost perfectly.

 

[Fox80]

I have not really bought anything from Summit but you can get a single row for $175 and dual row for $210 from Speedway Motors any width you want. Thanks for the heads up on Summits apparently high prices


565 that is the radiator that is probably a better choice for the street, spending the extra couple bucks to have a drain would make life easier down the road. Do you recall who makes your coolant catch can?

 

[565bbchevy]

I have not really bought anything from Summit but you can get a single row for $175 and dual row for $210 from Speedway Motors any width you want. Thanks for the heads up on Summits apparently high prices
565 that is the radiator that is probably a better choice for the street, spending the extra couple bucks to have a drain would make life easier down the road. Do you recall who makes your coolant catch can?

I did not see this radiator on Speedways site Griffen part# 8-00010 this one has 2 x 1.25" tubes and is 31.25" x 18.62"
I think the extra money goes toward tubing thickness as most two row radiators only come with 1" tubes. I would be curious to see Speedways price on this exact radiator.

As far as the aluminum recovery can it is a Canton Racing part# 80-201 I also polished this before installing it comes in a brushed/satin finish.

 

[Fox80]

Speedway wouldn't have your radiator, I was referring to the price quote the OP gave for his

 

[skulledmonte84]

565bbchevy believe it or not your one youtube video i watch,started this whole cover project lol you got very good taste 🙂 mine is the Griffin Radiators 1-86272-X the guy i bought if from told me his buddy paid for around 400.00 for it 4 years ago.an used it 3 races hell it looked brand new inside, I like that overflow tank,whats one like that run $ i seen these canton over flow tanks on ebay for 170.00

 

[skulledmonte84]

i don't have no close up shots but here's the radiator/engine bay

 

[skulledmonte84]

more shots i have youtube vids of it,Everything needs to be cleaned an polished

 

[565bbchevy]

If that is the actual number those come with 2 x 1-1/2" tubes which makes your core thicker than what I am using to cool my 565 big block.
You will definitely not have any overheating issues with that. To verify it is the X series just measure the thickness of the core.

The radiator in my videos is my old Griffen for that I made the cover plate for, my new one came with a flat top and smooth tanks so I just polished the entire radiator.
The recovery can I wanted next to the radiator like my old plastic one so I bought a similar style to fit in it's place and made aluminum brackets to mount it to the core support and of coarse I polished those too.

 

[skulledmonte84]

It's 3" thick not sure about X series though, I thought about just going with a 2x13'' Polished Aluminum Universal Radiator Overflow Tank but not sure how id mount it,iv seen some pics on here of them.some i just don't care for the way there installed Now what u got is nice.it's still saying (0 new messages) i got to keeping clicking view post to see if anyone reply an not getting emails either WTF

 

[565bbchevy]

This is my old plastic recovery tank with my old radiator, since the new radiator came with a AN for the overflow I wanted to make use of having a braided line with fittings on both ends which I can't do on the plastic one.