radiator

[Russell Stover]

I need to replace my radiator. I was thinking about going with the f body one and adding a trans cooler. What year f body one am I looking for? Do the oil lines on the car hook up easily to the trans fitting on the f body Radiator? Thanks in advance

 

[MistaScott]

1990 Camaro 5.7 or 5.0L should be fine. It does not have an oil cooler but it has a trans cooler.

 

[Russell Stover]

If I'm going to use the trans cooler inside the new radiator as the oil cooler how hard is it to hook up the existing lines to the new radiator? do you need to buy new fittings?

 

[MistaScott]

I don't think that is doable because of pressure differences with tranny and motor oil. You pretty much have to get an external oil cooler but it also a good idea to run an external trans cooler in series with the radiator trans cooler.

I have the F-body radiator and an external trans cooler and no oil cooler for the time being.

 

[Russell Stover]

I just thought I had heard of people doing this. Has anyone? or do you have to get the oil cooler separate also? Thanks for the advice

 

[lhbarrett]

I have seen our radiators in 86 and 87 Caddy's at the junkyards or at least one that looks close to include oil and tranny cooler. I had mine rebuilt with a high efficient core for about $200 at a local radiator shop. Sometimes it doesn't pay to out think the GM engineers. However, it is a shame how poorly our cores are welded to the original tanks.

 

[Russell Stover]

Well I took the radiator to the shop to get fixed and they said they found a new one for a diesel GM car that was an exact
match to ours. 171.00 I guess we will see when I pick it up.

 

[bishir]

My local radiator shop told me those Cadilac cars shared the same radiator. Don't know if it's true or not...

James

 

[Russell Stover]

the new radiator worked. It was listed for a GM Diesel. It didn't mount up the same so I had to drill 2 new holes for the fan but thats it. 170 bucks (the tanks were beat up to bad on the old one to repair)