Yah! My Ron Davis Racing radiator is now done and installed.
It looks awesome, and the welds are a thing of beauty!
- It has about 3x the cooling capacity and the entire unit is aluminum, there's no plastic.
- The fins are 2.25" deep vs. the OEMs of a little shy of 1.5".
- It has 2 rows of 1" tubes.
- The temp needle now rides about 2 tick below "halfway", whereas it was just 1 tick below before.
- The OEM front bracket had to be modified slightly in the angle.
- The OEM shroud had to be modified a bit on the top to clear the fan blades. They're in the same position, but end up further inside the OEM shroud because the radiator is a little deeper than the OEM, pushing the shroud back a bit. My mechanic just had to cut some of the plastic off the top of the shroud. (We priced a custom aluminum shroud from RD....
...it would be at LEAST $400+...nevermind.....
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- This was a little over $600 for the unit (plus some $70 for packaging materials). It was only about $200 more than an OEM....and I decided to splurge!
Will have to wait for a good hot AZ summer day to really test it out!
Again, a HUGE thank you to "newthings" for all his help on this and helping me bring this to a reality
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