Original Posted By: Kip & Beth Gardner
Gang-Does anyone have or know of a suitable radiator for an "A"? The one I have is marginaland my local radiator guy says he can rebuild it with a more efficientcore for a mere $250!! Seems a bit steep to me since the radiator was only $75brand new. As far as I know, Forrest Lovely's purpose-built jobs are about $300but seem to be a bit excessive in weight. Any solutions from y'all?Larry________________________________________________________________________________Date: Sun, 9 Jun 2002 22:35:07 -0400
Pietenpol-List: Radiator
Re: Pietenpol-List: linseed oil & T-88
Original Posted By: john e fay
Subject: Pietenpol-List: RadiatorI've been off the list since the infamous "fisherman incident" but checkit periodically. I figured I'd check in on the radiator question...Larry, there is no cheap way to build a radiator. That said, I'd liketo suggest checking into a company like Griffon Radiator. They makealuminum radiators for the street rod-high performance guys. They arenot cheap, but as long as your spending the bucks, you can have aradiator that weighs half or less than a copper-brass radiator. I got acopper/brass radiator with the engine I bought and it weighs just under20 lbs. That is HEAVY. The Griffon web sight says they can build aradiator to your specs. They also claim that aluminum cools better thancopper/brass. I am planning to use the VW Golf diesel radiator that yousee in the ultra light catalogues. (LEAF etc.) Aluminum core withplastic end tanks - 4 lbs. total! They use it on the Rotax 912. It don"tlook like it it's enough radiator for the Ford, but Lowell Frank usedone to cool his souped up Model B. Something else that might be worthlooking into is a product called 40 below. (Jegs catalog) A coolingsystem additive that is suppose to speed up heat transfer from cyl.walls to coolant, than from the coolant to the radiator tubes wheremoving air whisks it away. You would want to test it against your finishto make sure it won't attack your paint. If the VW rad. don't work, I'mgoing to have one of those shops build me an aluminum Forrest Lovelystyle radiator. Leon S. PS. Ken Perkins told me that ForrestLovely took about a year to make and ship his radiator.________________________________________________________________________________Date: Mon, 10 Jun 2002 06:49:10 -0500Subject: Re: Pietenpol-List: linseed oil & T-88
Subject: Pietenpol-List: RadiatorI've been off the list since the infamous "fisherman incident" but checkit periodically. I figured I'd check in on the radiator question...Larry, there is no cheap way to build a radiator. That said, I'd liketo suggest checking into a company like Griffon Radiator. They makealuminum radiators for the street rod-high performance guys. They arenot cheap, but as long as your spending the bucks, you can have aradiator that weighs half or less than a copper-brass radiator. I got acopper/brass radiator with the engine I bought and it weighs just under20 lbs. That is HEAVY. The Griffon web sight says they can build aradiator to your specs. They also claim that aluminum cools better thancopper/brass. I am planning to use the VW Golf diesel radiator that yousee in the ultra light catalogues. (LEAF etc.) Aluminum core withplastic end tanks - 4 lbs. total! They use it on the Rotax 912. It don"tlook like it it's enough radiator for the Ford, but Lowell Frank usedone to cool his souped up Model B. Something else that might be worthlooking into is a product called 40 below. (Jegs catalog) A coolingsystem additive that is suppose to speed up heat transfer from cyl.walls to coolant, than from the coolant to the radiator tubes wheremoving air whisks it away. You would want to test it against your finishto make sure it won't attack your paint. If the VW rad. don't work, I'mgoing to have one of those shops build me an aluminum Forrest Lovelystyle radiator. Leon S. PS. Ken Perkins told me that ForrestLovely took about a year to make and ship his radiator.________________________________________________________________________________Date: Mon, 10 Jun 2002 06:49:10 -0500Subject: Re: Pietenpol-List: linseed oil & T-88