More Sideways than forward..
Thanks everyone for your help. Ended up taking ramchargers advice and we flipped it over and made it a pusher. Turned out real nice actually. We cut more holes in the shroud to allow more air through, and it fit in there near perfectly. No modifications were necessary to the core support. Check it out.
Ok, so , a year and 3/4 later, this Rad still sucks A$%. I've driven the car maybe 10 miles, and have been chasing demons ever since. I'll spare you the gory details:
-Put a working temp gauge in, and found I was running 240-250 degrees. I freaked and parked it until further analysis.
-I had some pre-detonation, so it sat at the mech. for months on end NOT getting worked on. ultimately moved the fuel line away from headers and dialed in timing, bigger air filter.
-I bought a much bigger (volume/motor) pusher fan in attempts to get this to cool, bust.
-Called CI and spoke with an expert; possibly wrong head gaskets. The "off the shelf" type, even fel-pro have too small of holes to pass that adequate amount of aqua, he emailed over the correct one I need. Yet to pull head to verify. I'll post the info he sent soon.
Ultimately, I should have taken your guys's advice 2 years and gone with a stock Rad, manual fan.
Anyone need a nice RAd, I have one for sale, lol.