Radiator upgrade

[303'505rollin]

Oh yeah I did modify the rubber top pieces too

 

[melloelky]

Here's the cheap guy's answer. I ran a new, bottom of the barrel, $85 from Advanced Auto with Speed Perks and coupon codes for a year. Worked great cruising and normal around town driving. At the track on the big end it didn't cut it - ot would go from 215 to low 240's. So I put in a CC162 and now I never see 225. Running 1/8th's it stay in the 210-220 range. Much better and quicker cooling on the return road as well.

I'd tell you to use a stock replacement that fits easily until you're making over 500hp and racing.

if it works for this guy's^^^ ride it'll work for just about all of our$..

 

[64nailhead]

if it works for this guy's^^^ ride it'll work for just about all of our$..

Don’t give me too much credit lol.

It’s easy to spend money, but spending it on stuff that works is waaaay better than the other way around.

 

[rogue_ryder]

if it works for this guy's^^^ ride it'll work for just about all of our$..

It's not so much the radiator isn't able to cool, it's that it's that it's advertised as a "Direct Fit" and it's not really (overflow nipple is the wrong size, stock rubber isolator pads don't work and the cap is real low quality). Cold Case is priced higher than the ECP or Champion with what seems to be not much of a difference in quality or fit.

Here's the BIG I mean BIG problem. If you buy their "Kit" with the dual electric fans it's not going to keep the car cool in anything other than low RPM cruising. The fans work but they're GARBAGE. I must have addressed 5 or 6 other areas trying to get my car to run cooler (Advance Timing, Add Fuel, High Flow T-stat, Flowkooler waterpump, bigger headers) and it was the FANS. Just junk. The details just weren't there on their website or Jegs (where I got mine) on how poor the actual CFM of the fans were. They're advertised as being a winner but they're really a dud.

Fan Details:

• Plastic
• 12 inch Electric Fan Assembly. 1400 CFM.
• AMP Draw: 5.69 avg

CFM

• 4 inch from face of radiator: 321
• Directly against radiator: 933

You can find the details by looking on their website for the individual fans. I'm guessing mounted on the shroud puts them near that 4" and you get that 321 CFM so 642 CFM or maybe slightly more is all you're going to get out of these.

Compare them to the SPAL fans https://www.summitracing.com/parts/spu-ix-30101522 rated at 1,328 cfm, but pull 13 Amps compared to measly 5.69A of the Cold Case fans.

Specs and all are great but here's exactly what happened to me. In my 403 (yes a b*tch to keep cool) the car would get hot fast going up hill. After that engine saw 240 it was smoked. I installed a STOCK 350 and it also would get to 220 in hurry on hills. I pulled that shroud and fans off and reinstalled the clutch fan and stock shroud and the car wouldn't crack 180 Beatin' on it and running 3,000 RPM up hill! So the rad works, and well but the Fan.... TRASH.