dano
Evil Handy Man
you have a nice big radiator blocked by an aluminum plate. That's your problem.
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you have a nice big radiator blocked by an aluminum plate. That's your problem.
This radiator blocking design is showing up more and more often now. It must be the fashionable thing in the car world these days.
And everyone has the same cooling problems....
It's like covering your 62" big screen TV with a piece of cardboard that has 2, 20" holes cut in it.
Evans coolant. Ill check into that. I really hate to cut holes into the shroud. It seems to be doing the same thing it was before the radiator change. I had a radiator out of a international truck, big and ugly. I hate to wrap the headers, But I think that's where the problem lies. I bought fender well headers, but can't bring myself to install them (ugly). I read once to remove the thermostat, and put a washer in it's place. I have no heater. No need with these headers. A 13 mile trip brought the temp to 220 at 55mph yesterday. I have some Wynns water treatment I'm going to put in.
here is the factory fan shroud for our jensen radiator about 26" wide core. It tapers towards the center for more volume of space in the center. In your case just put a lip on it 1" thick around the perimeter as mentioned.
Secondly, drill four 3" or 2" holes opposite each fan and put a flap over each set of holes. Hold the flap at the top with flat bar aluminum or steel with screws thru it.
You can see where the flaps go on this factory rad shroud. They have a built in horizontal bar inside the flap hole to help prevent the flap from being sucked thru inwards when the fans are on and there is negative pressure inside the plenum. They also have a horizontal flat bar that goes across the top of the flap and is screwed to the shroud frame to hold the flaps.
I take offense at the " Trailer Queen " monicker. It's obvious my car is a pro street. Trailer queen refers to all show and no go. Taz goes. I will do something about the shroud. I wonder how many replying here have shoehorned a RB into a A body? That is the category I posted this thread in. I built the elephant ears myself, and the car represents a 10 year build. Thank you all for the input. I will let you know how it goes.:thumleft: