Replacement radiator

[mbrunson427]

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.

[67428GT500]

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.

[FrozenMerc]

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.

[Dieselman966]

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. 

[67428GT500]

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.

                                                                                  -Keith

[RustyCrankshaft]

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.

[Dieselman966]

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.

[Dieselman966]

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.

[67428GT500]

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.