radiator fun

[BusyKiwi]

if you want a serious radiator look at a J2 bedford radiator, i used these in a couple of vans i built.

The J0 and J1 are a lot smaller and rounded, the J2 has square tanks.
the original were honeycomb but can be changed to normal style

putting 2 or more in series would create a big hot spot between them as the air rolls through them

[MaTTe]

30-40 odd years ago, my uncle had a transit with a 351 clevo, and he put in 2 radiators, one in the normal position, and another at 90degrees to it, either on the drivers or passengers side - i forget which

Back in those days radiators weren't quite as good as they are nowadays.. this would have happened somewhere in the hq-hz era..

It could be easily done, and more effective than having 2 running one infront of the other, but at the same time, one good radiator should be fine. I've got a fairly decent radiator, but nothing huge, and it always kept the 350 cool even driving through peak hour traffic.

I recommend running redline water wetter tho. This is an absolute must in any car, van, truck, bike.

[Marishka]

just buy a new 5 core ben , and know its good and be done with it. .
by the time uve finished mucking around with second hand things and the nightmares u might encounter .
there was a beddy on ebay a few weeks ago runnin a dual radiator.
the beddy motor home in rebuilding for my X  has a twin s/s ehurst pipe runnin from front to back (about 12ft x 2 =24ft) 2 give extra water in the cooling system, seemed 2 work ok, not good in winter though as the heater wouldnt get hot enough 2 cook pies.

[SkippyThBushKangeroo]

excuse my marsupial like ignorance. . but wot is "redline water wetter"  or have i just been sucked in 

[MaTTe]

hey skippy, it's better to ask and know, than to pretend to know and never ask..

Redline Water Wetter is a product you add to distilled water to replace 'coolant' in your cooling system.

'coolant' is mainly glycol, which is antifreeze - which does nothing to keep your motor cool. Unless you live somewhere that your fluids are likely to freeze over night(rare in oz) then you do not need glycol in your system.
'coolant' also contains rust inhibitor and anti corrosives.


Water wetter contains all the rust inhibitors and anti corrosives just like all other 'coolants' but no glycol, it has been proven to make a cooling system run cooler than with glycol, or water.
It can be used with glycol if you live somewhere that your fluids may freeze over night, and will run better than 'coolant' alone.


Anyone that has a performance car should be running water wetter, if we run the race car without water wetter it will constantly have the fans on to cool it down, with water wetter it'll only turn the fans on when we are sitting on the start line waiting for the green light. Anyone that has a standard car will find they'll get better performance from the car as it's not suffering hot spots and running cooler.

It's about $35 a bottle, and you add it to distilled water, go to coventrys and get 2 x 15L goon bags of distilled water (about $10)
Drop the fluids, fill with distilled water, get the car hot with the heater on, drop the fluids, repeat twice, then fill with distilled water and add water wetter.

Worth every penny

[John Abbott]

Hey Matt...I have always wondered about that stuff. Im tempted to use it now

[SkippyThBushKangeroo]

ta matt. . never knew of its existance before.  will suss it out

[ben]

matte your dont just have a nice van you also have some great info wow!.  well i knew that water purifying system for the chroming business would come in handy some day! it will save me 10 bucks!!!!!

cheers
ben

[Marishka]

sounds like good stuff MaTTe, thanx for the info,
exellent stuff.

[Clappers]

Big Betty has a 350 in it which i moved back and down so as to to take a bit of weight of steering and i have a 80 series landcruiser radiator with twin thermos and enough room in front for aircon condensor. It doesnt get hot at all. Reason i used this radiator is that diesel cruisers run hot and the radiator does its job well.