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Old 08-30-2009, 02:30 AM   #91 (permalink)
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If you have to go to a radiator shop anyway, you could always figure out exactly what size you'd need, and what shape, and take them a couple old radiators, and they could braze them into whatever shape you wanted, and add aluminum end tanks to them for you, with the hoses routed however you want. It can be cheaper than buying a new rad, sometimes.

In fact, you might even be able to get away with taking your OEM radiator down so that it's only half it's height, but the full length, and only gets air from the lower grille. They'd just saw it in half, stack the sections one in front of the other, then add custom end tanks to keep circulation in a common direction.

Custom radiators are da shiznit. :P

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