65 Barracuda daily driver
Then I looked at it again and realized that it adds a lot of stability to the radiator core support.
After a lot of hammering and bending that was not pretty I got it sort of back into place and more importantly: functional:
Not too bad considering how badly bent out of shape it was before:
I've been trying to use the original mount points on the radiator core support and since it's '70 Valiant radiator, I had to modify the holes on the radiator a bit. At least the top ones are pretty close, the radiator is not quite level yet and sits too low, but tomorrow I'll widen the holes a bit more and move on to the bottom ones. Top to bottom is 12" on the '65 radiator core support, but 14" on the '70 radiator. I'll have to drill a new hole in the radiator bracket for the driver side bottom, but before I do that, I want the radiator elsewhere to be perfectly aligned. I must have the radiator in and out at least 15 times today...
So when I first saw this photo and @66fyssh mentioned that is used to mount the radiator, I thought that with the Champion radiator it would not work.
Then I looked at it again and realized that it adds a lot of stability to the radiator core support.
After a lot of hammering and bending that was not pretty I got it sort of back into place and more importantly: functional:
Not too bad considering how badly bent out of shape it was before:
I've been trying to use the original mount points on the radiator core support and since it's '70 Valiant radiator, I had to modify the holes on the radiator a bit. At least the top ones are pretty close, the radiator is not quite level yet and sits too low, but tomorrow I'll widen the holes a bit more and move on to the bottom ones. Top to bottom is 12" on the '65 radiator core support, but 14" on the '70 radiator. I'll have to drill a new hole in the radiator bracket for the driver side bottom, but before I do that, I want the radiator elsewhere to be perfectly aligned. I must have the radiator in and out at least 15 times today...