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| Looking to replace the old leaking rad with a aftermarket aluminium one for better cooling , dropping in a worked 392 in the future so looking for increased cooling . |
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Location: Simi Valley, CA | Check with Griffin Radiators, They can build you a radiator with their original like top tanks. I'm considering doing that on my 1955 Dodge Custom Royal Lancer. |
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Location: So. Cal | The cheaper ones with good looking rounded tanks are sold by KKS, and you can get them off ebay. That's what I would recommend. If you don't want to modify your core support, go with the one made for '62-'65 B-body cars. If you want to open up the core support for even better cooling, you can go with a 26" radiator from a '66-'70 B-body. But this does require custom mounts and locaion. The '62-'65 version is practically a drop-in replacement. |
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| That's good to know , thank you . at this point the drop in sounds good to me |
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Location: northern germany | Bought a "guaranteed to never leak" aluminum radiator on ebay 4/5 years ago. Cooled excellent but started to leak 3 years later, now like a sieve. The company that "guaranteed lifelong or money back" is long gone....
The OE radiator lasted 54 years.
Edited by 1960fury 2019-06-12 5:17 PM
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Location: Newark, Texas (Fort Worth) | This one? You guys got to give a clickable example. i do.
https://www.ebay.com/itm/KKS-3-ROWS-ALUMINUM-RADIATOR-62-65-DODGE-PO...
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http://www.kksmotorsports.com/show.asp?id=773 |
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| i got one from summit, in house brand here is a good summit one kind o a tank https://www.summitracing.com/parts/sum-384014/overview/
Edited by mikes2nd 2019-06-12 10:02 PM
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Location: northern germany | This one is on ebay, pretty cheap and seems to be right. But look at the brackets. Is somebody noticing something strange? I politely contacted the seller about this, if this is an optical illusion and got this response. Quote: ".....All of ours are going to be grill side mounting which 99.9% of all radiators are.....". Meaning 99.9% of all radiators bolt to the grille side of the radiator support In the end (staying polite) I got a pretty nasty response.
What do you think?
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