I'm sure it's just echoing the results of others, but just to add to the pile of positive feedback...
I got my re-cored radiator from Nick Micale at Arizona GN last Tuesday. To say it was "well packaged" would be putting it mildly. To the neighbors, I must have looked like some wildman trying to pull the cardboard of the box apart while trying to carefully remove the foam packing Nick uses. I almost skewered my leg with a 4" Gerber in the process, but the fact that not a single fin was marred was rewarding.
I trimmed sides of the RC dual fan frame with a sanding drum on a Dremel after cutting off the mounting ears with a cutting wheel. I got them to the point that I could "snap" the fans in between the tanks. I did this, and held them in place with heavy zip tie on the upper ear of the fans and will be putting a zip tie on the lower ear this week.
Before, cruising in traffic I would see coolant temps in the low-mid 170's. If I whacked on it once or twice, they'd shoot up into the 180's, sometimes over 190. Last night, my cruise temps were in the low 160's. More importantly, after a few WOT blasts, they stayed in the 160's. Out on a lonely, untraveled road in the middle of the night, a few of us got a few full passes in. Coolant temps never topped 172, and would drop back into the low-160's by the time I got back to the starting area. This is all with the fan running off the ECM and programmed to come on a 165.
Very happy with the setup, and it obviously works well.
Sean.
I got my re-cored radiator from Nick Micale at Arizona GN last Tuesday. To say it was "well packaged" would be putting it mildly. To the neighbors, I must have looked like some wildman trying to pull the cardboard of the box apart while trying to carefully remove the foam packing Nick uses. I almost skewered my leg with a 4" Gerber in the process, but the fact that not a single fin was marred was rewarding.
I trimmed sides of the RC dual fan frame with a sanding drum on a Dremel after cutting off the mounting ears with a cutting wheel. I got them to the point that I could "snap" the fans in between the tanks. I did this, and held them in place with heavy zip tie on the upper ear of the fans and will be putting a zip tie on the lower ear this week.
Before, cruising in traffic I would see coolant temps in the low-mid 170's. If I whacked on it once or twice, they'd shoot up into the 180's, sometimes over 190. Last night, my cruise temps were in the low 160's. More importantly, after a few WOT blasts, they stayed in the 160's. Out on a lonely, untraveled road in the middle of the night, a few of us got a few full passes in. Coolant temps never topped 172, and would drop back into the low-160's by the time I got back to the starting area. This is all with the fan running off the ECM and programmed to come on a 165.
Very happy with the setup, and it obviously works well.
Sean.
