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User Rides / Re: Chuck's '83 TBird
Last post by Chuck W -
The replacement radiator showed up at the end of the week, and I finally got time to install it today.




It was a drop-in replacement for the stock one. The only issue was either it's a touch shorter than the stock radiator, or my mounting pads are a little compressed. I needed to add a little bit more to each of the upper and lower isolators to get the hold-downs to "hold down".

The only oddity is that these don't use the same caps as the originals. They use one for a Subaru. The included one with the radiator has sub-par reviews, so I'm picking up a replacement to swap it out.Looks like a Stant 10333 is the crossover.

Seems good so far in the heat cycle to fill things up and test the fan.
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User Rides / Re: Chuck's '83 TBird
Last post by Chuck W -
Well, they're sending me another one, as they say that this was the result of shipping damage. We'll see what the new one looks like.  :dunno:

I asked what they wanted done to the old one, and they said dispose of it.

Sooooooo, since I have another Fox project that doesn't have a radiator, I'm going to see if I can straighten it out a bit and pressure test it to see if it'll work.  :toothless:

Also, this is just a 2-core. I saw no need for anything more.

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User Rides / Re: Chuck's '83 TBird
Last post by Ductape91 -
The ebay three core aluminum radiator i bought(not a mishimoto but still $$$ because i wanted one that didnt look like a welders project) was warped like that too.
It was so bad i couldnt get the factory bracket to even sit on it, i gave it to a mustang guy who parked his car in the same garage i keep mine in because he said it wouldnt matter to him since he was doing custom upper bracket with overflow tank. He wound up buying another one lol.
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User Rides / Re: Chuck's '83 TBird
Last post by Chuck W -
The intercooler is something I picked up off of ebay . You can follow the install and such starting back on PAGE 8. I think most of the pics are still working.

No cutting to mount this one. I had a old Volvo front mount IC installed before this one, and I had to do a little cutting for that one.

This car has never had (working) AC in the almost 30 years that I've had it. I'm sure I could make a condenser work in here if I needed to, but for now this car will live without. I'm going to consider reinstalling it (It is a factory AC car) if/when I do something with the drivetrain.
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User Rides / Re: Chuck's '83 TBird
Last post by hast2307 -
Chuck,
  I am curious about the "silly" intercooler, is that the one from Gnari?  I have one as a future project for my '85 turbo coupe but I was confused by the instruction placing it between the AC condenser and radiator.  Did you have to mod or make any new brackets?

Thanks
Harry
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User Rides / Re: Chuck's '83 TBird
Last post by Chuck W -
Well, since I'm sure people are tired of all of the other non-TBIrd posts, I was hoping to be able to make an update involving this.



However it came out of the box looking like this



Getting in touch with them about getting it swapped out.

I've been needing to replace the old radiator (and hoses) for a long while now.


It's not the original one, but it's at least 20-25 years old. So are the hoses. It's had a couple small seep spots in it for a couple of years, so it was time.

Thwarted in my plans, I at least sprayed down the engine bay a bit  to clean things up.

Here you can get a glimpse of the silly intercooler that's in this thing.


Hopefully I'll hear back from them tomorrow and get another on the way.