Shredded rad
08-14-2016, 12:57 AM
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Shredded rad
So while doing a routine valve adjustment the other day I noticed this -
Holy moly I've never seen a radiator look like that before, even on older cars and the condensor is in the same condition. Seeing as the car is rarely tracked if ever these days, it's only requiring a stock type replacement and so far come up with www.carcooling.co.uk for the best price.
The two items come to around £130 inc VAT - great, but has anyone had any experience with them be it positive or negative? Next step up is likely Tegiwa's well documented rad but that of course is an all aluminium unit bumping up the price (& weight?) somewhat for potential race performance not required.
PS has anyone made a stone guard for their radiators to stop the shredding from happening?
Holy moly I've never seen a radiator look like that before, even on older cars and the condensor is in the same condition. Seeing as the car is rarely tracked if ever these days, it's only requiring a stock type replacement and so far come up with www.carcooling.co.uk for the best price.
The two items come to around £130 inc VAT - great, but has anyone had any experience with them be it positive or negative? Next step up is likely Tegiwa's well documented rad but that of course is an all aluminium unit bumping up the price (& weight?) somewhat for potential race performance not required.
PS has anyone made a stone guard for their radiators to stop the shredding from happening?
08-14-2016, 01:27 AM
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I replaced my condenser from the same place and got a Tegiwa radiator - topped off with a Zunsport grille to protect my investment. No problems with any of them so far although I did need to take 5mm off one of the pipes feeding the condenser as the hole wasn't deep enough to seal properly - your mileage may vary.
08-14-2016, 09:09 AM
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Fitted fine bracket-wise apart from the previously mentioned trimming of a feed/return pipe - the one that bolts on the lower-left http://www.carcooling.co.uk/products...9826-1971.html I did give it a squirt of ACF-50 to offer some anti-corrosion protection too - not checked to see if it did any good since fitting though.
08-24-2016, 11:14 AM
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I bought this...
http://www.ebay.co.uk/sch/i.html?_fr...3971+&_sacat=0
From Cool Parts UK and was very impressed with the product, fit, packaging and quality.
Since fitting it I've cruised at 130mph in Germany for best part of an hour and then immediately into standing traffic with no overheating.
I'd strongly recommend getting a new bottom hose clip, mine crumbled to rust when taking it off the bottom of the rad. If I was to do it again, I'd probably replace the bottom hose as well to be on the safe side.
http://www.ebay.co.uk/sch/i.html?_fr...3971+&_sacat=0
From Cool Parts UK and was very impressed with the product, fit, packaging and quality.
Since fitting it I've cruised at 130mph in Germany for best part of an hour and then immediately into standing traffic with no overheating.
I'd strongly recommend getting a new bottom hose clip, mine crumbled to rust when taking it off the bottom of the rad. If I was to do it again, I'd probably replace the bottom hose as well to be on the safe side.
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08-24-2016, 02:17 PM
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Cheers bud, good info - did you replace your condenser rad from them too?
I've given in to shiny regarding the main radiator though ... Bought Tim S's Mishimoto Rad and fan shroud, looks like a quality piece of kit.
I've given in to shiny regarding the main radiator though ... Bought Tim S's Mishimoto Rad and fan shroud, looks like a quality piece of kit.
08-26-2016, 10:55 PM
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Mishimoto in and running nicely!
Things to note if you're doing this on a car of similar age:
- The lower hose spring clamp will indeed crumble to dust when you so much as touch it. It will also have eaten into the hose with corrosion so if possible, replace the lower hose.
- Radiator temperature probe. The plastic clip on mine was so brittle that it crumbled away - a replacement is little more than a tenner from the local motor factor but make sure you get the right one. Mine has a flat head rather than a probe and brown plastic clip (someone else might know but it could have changed to a longer probe type somewhere along the S2000 lineage, mines MY02).
- You'll need more than one 5L coolant bottle. I'd watched an engineering explained video recently and had 4.5L in my head, almost like an oil change. You'll need nearly 7 litres for a standard rad, more for a Mishimoto. More if you keep spilling it like me.
- When you're bleeding the system via the front engine mounted bleed, give the throttle a blip to get the heater working properly, otherwise you might not get heat out of it. The service manual explains the process but Rob Robinette's guide is overall more comprehensive.
- If you've got the condenser radiator out of the way then consider installing some wire mesh to protect your radiators from being shot blasted by proceeding traffic, it's cheap enough from any hardware store or you can spend more on a more expensive brand.
Thanks for the advice and tips guys, and to Tim S for the rad and fans.
Things to note if you're doing this on a car of similar age:
- The lower hose spring clamp will indeed crumble to dust when you so much as touch it. It will also have eaten into the hose with corrosion so if possible, replace the lower hose.
- Radiator temperature probe. The plastic clip on mine was so brittle that it crumbled away - a replacement is little more than a tenner from the local motor factor but make sure you get the right one. Mine has a flat head rather than a probe and brown plastic clip (someone else might know but it could have changed to a longer probe type somewhere along the S2000 lineage, mines MY02).
- You'll need more than one 5L coolant bottle. I'd watched an engineering explained video recently and had 4.5L in my head, almost like an oil change. You'll need nearly 7 litres for a standard rad, more for a Mishimoto. More if you keep spilling it like me.
- When you're bleeding the system via the front engine mounted bleed, give the throttle a blip to get the heater working properly, otherwise you might not get heat out of it. The service manual explains the process but Rob Robinette's guide is overall more comprehensive.
- If you've got the condenser radiator out of the way then consider installing some wire mesh to protect your radiators from being shot blasted by proceeding traffic, it's cheap enough from any hardware store or you can spend more on a more expensive brand.
Thanks for the advice and tips guys, and to Tim S for the rad and fans.
