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Dieselman966

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Replacement radiator
« on: June 10, 2019, 10:33:55 AM »
What are you guys using for replacement radiators.  My stock one needs to be record and will cost $600 locally.  My as well upgrade if its gonna cost that much.

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Re: Replacement radiator
« Reply #1 on: June 10, 2019, 11:36:55 AM »
Personally, I think U.S. Radiator is the best there is. They have several different options to choose from and the quality is second to none.

http://www.usradiator.com/
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Re: Replacement radiator
« Reply #2 on: June 10, 2019, 11:43:23 AM »
I got an American Eagle (very American-looking box and Eagle) about 4-5 years ago for our 64 Gal, about $200.
Aluminum, car runs 10-15 degrees cooler, total bolt-in from brackets to trans cooler lines.
I painted the tanks black & nobody even notices its in there.

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Re: Replacement radiator
« Reply #3 on: June 13, 2019, 12:13:02 PM »
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Re: Replacement radiator
« Reply #4 on: June 13, 2019, 06:20:59 PM »
I got an American Eagle (very American-looking box and Eagle) about 4-5 years ago for our 64 Gal, about $200.
Aluminum, car runs 10-15 degrees cooler, total bolt-in from brackets to trans cooler lines.
I painted the tanks black & nobody even notices its in there.

I've bought American Eagle radiators for a few projects and for the money they're pretty hard to beat. US Radiator is good, very authentic looking and you have a lot of core options, but you also pay a premium. Hard to go wrong with either one.

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Re: Replacement radiator
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Re: Replacement radiator
« Reply #6 on: June 14, 2019, 11:17:35 AM »
you can get a Champion aluminum radiator for under 200.i know they are cheap ,but i put one on my car about 3 years ago and my temp has never been over 190 in any situation,and it fit like a glove.all i did was dropped it in and hoked it up
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Re: Replacement radiator
« Reply #7 on: June 14, 2019, 12:56:04 PM »
On the Falcon I use a Summit dual core aluminum with 1" cores.  Works good, but you'll have to totally engineer the install.  It's generic at 31" x 19". 

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Re: Replacement radiator
« Reply #8 on: June 14, 2019, 02:00:29 PM »
I ended up ordering one from radiator supply house. Supposed to be a drop in radiator that will take the stock fan shroud. Well see what it looks like when it gets here.

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Re: Replacement radiator
« Reply #9 on: June 14, 2019, 03:01:42 PM »
Does the 63 have the same dimensions as the 64 radiator?Mine is a single core original and would like to go to a 2 core because of the 428 engine. And what about a shroud?
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Re: Replacement radiator
« Reply #10 on: June 14, 2019, 04:18:39 PM »
you can get a Champion aluminum radiator for under 200.i know they are cheap ,but i put one on my car about 3 years ago and my temp has never been over 190 in any situation,and it fit like a glove.all i did was dropped it in and hoked it up

If you don't mind Chinese the Champion's are good. Leadfoot has been good about customer service so far in my experience. I bought another one, for a 73-79 4x4 radiator from them for my crewcab and had to exchange it because it showed up with a UPS footprint in the middle of the core and no drama, they took care of it. They work fine and they're inexpensive.

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Re: Replacement radiator
« Reply #11 on: June 15, 2019, 11:44:41 AM »
Rock auto does not carry radiators for a 65 galaxie with an fe engine.  They only have them for galaxies with SBF engines and those radiators dont have the inlet and outlet on the same side

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Re: Replacement radiator
« Reply #12 on: July 05, 2019, 01:10:50 PM »
I got an American Eagle (very American-looking box and Eagle) about 4-5 years ago for our 64 Gal, about $200.
Aluminum, car runs 10-15 degrees cooler, total bolt-in from brackets to trans cooler lines.
I painted the tanks black & nobody even notices its in there.

How much difference is there between a 64 galaxie radiator and a 65 one. The radiator supply house has sent the wrong one twice now.  Think I’ll just get a refund and move on now.

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Re: Replacement radiator
« Reply #13 on: July 05, 2019, 04:18:28 PM »
61-2-3 are the same, 64 is by itself, 65 is different also.
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Re: Replacement radiator
« Reply #14 on: July 08, 2019, 07:09:22 AM »
I still have my old 62 crossflow from a '406' I had a filler neck put on it to get rid of the expansion tank. This is for a manual transmission car.

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Re: Replacement radiator
« Reply #15 on: July 08, 2019, 10:08:22 AM »
I got an American Eagle (very American-looking box and Eagle) about 4-5 years ago for our 64 Gal, about $200.
Aluminum, car runs 10-15 degrees cooler, total bolt-in from brackets to trans cooler lines.
I painted the tanks black & nobody even notices its in there.

How much difference is there between a 64 galaxie radiator and a 65 one. The radiator supply house has sent the wrong one twice now.  Think I’ll just get a refund and move on now.

What year do you have? 64 or 65? I have a 65 radiator laying on the shelf that is dang near new.
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Re: Replacement radiator
« Reply #16 on: July 09, 2019, 12:06:13 AM »
Where are you? The North East?  Find another radiator shop. Because I wanted to keep the FOMOCO tanks and the 67 Shelbys lower tank is different than '68 on I had my OE re-cored. It was done beautifully for 235.00.  I haven't had a single issue and my heathy street driven FE in 100+ degree north Texas heat stays cool.
 US Radiator looks to have a good product but are very expensive for what they are.

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Re: Replacement radiator
« Reply #17 on: July 09, 2019, 12:54:30 PM »
U.S. Radiator for any older brass and copper replacement.  I have used them with great success in my '51 F-1, '62 Monterey, and a few other cars I have built for other people ('47 Ford, '32 Plymouth, etc).  Radiators are too important to use cheap E-bay crap and I think an aluminum unit looks completely wrong in any older car.

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Re: Replacement radiator
« Reply #18 on: July 15, 2019, 10:49:08 AM »
I have a 1965 galaxie.  The 3red radiator that Radiator supply house sent me was a champion radiator. Guess a $250 markup is good bussiness.  Anyways I sent that back and I'm currently waiting for one to show up from us radiator.  Im hoping this will be the end if it.  Last piece of the puzzle then I can run it. 

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« Reply #19 on: July 15, 2019, 01:50:10 PM »
Champion is expensive. I know you boys with anything other than a Mustang or Thunderbird have a really limited market for parts. I understand why you would have to go to U.S. Radiator.   I was rather shocked at 800.00 for a Mustang.  NPD used to offer Modine, which was an OE supplier to Ford. Because I am not in the market I didn't pay a ton of attention while browsing through the catalog for pricing, but I remembered it was about 349.00 last time I did notice. They also look OE. Perhaps US bought Modine out.
It's still highway robbery for a replacement core with the current hotbed for muscle cars and their restoration.

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Re: Replacement radiator
« Reply #20 on: July 15, 2019, 04:58:25 PM »
Modine is still an OEM supplier. Just had a Modine engineer here a few months ago to bid on a retrofit radiator/CAC/Hyd oil cooler with electric fan package for some of our equipment. I don't think you buy direct from Modine, pretty sure you'd have to go through a dealer. Someplace like NPD or similar might be contracting with Modine to have stock appearing parts built.

As auto manufacturers and now even a lot of HD companies have gone away from copper radiators it's getting more expensive to find correct replacements or even get your old rad recored.

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Re: Replacement radiator
« Reply #21 on: July 16, 2019, 10:28:29 AM »
The champion radiator that they sent me was $214 according to the champion site.  I just want it to fit.  I could make one fit but I dont have the time at home right now with 3 small kids. the local radiator shop quoted me $600 to recore the original radiator. I thought that was a bit on the steep side.

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Re: Replacement radiator
« Reply #22 on: July 17, 2019, 11:58:39 AM »
The us radiator fits great.  Dropped right in.  Definitely expensive though.  535 shipped.  If you dont want to mess with making an aftermarket aluminum one fit I would suggest a radiator from these guy. Especially for a 1965 galaxie.  There seems to be more options out there for the other years of the galaxie.

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« Reply #23 on: July 17, 2019, 04:20:30 PM »
The champion radiator that they sent me was $214 according to the champion site.  I just want it to fit.  I could make one fit but I don't have the time at home right now with 3 small kids. the local radiator shop quoted me $600 to recore the original radiator. I thought that was a bit on the steep side.
They are rip-off artist. I would have checked a couple others.  I agree with you, the market is limited with your vehicle. The good news is that you wound up with a high quality unit and hopefully will last the lifetime of the vehicle.