Author: Fury440
BB Aluminum Radiators
Anybody have experience with these guys? It looks like a reasonable deal and maybe cheaper than a re-core.
Chestermere AB show’n shine Aug 26th
Paul is coming up from Idaho and will be attending along with Gary’s Windsor and Robert’s Mach 1. I’ve been told to get the beast presentable. Derek, if you’re in town maybe fire up the GT! Graham, Peter, Tobias likewise.
It’s a good chanced to see 3 or 4 of Paul’s restorations and meet the man who built them.
For some reason my car hates heat!
For the first 90,000 miles of it’s life it was happy in the cold and the heat. No AC, 7 blade fan, 22″ rad, no shroud and no overflow bottle because it never over heated. The block was boiled, the heads were boiled and the rad was rebuilt with an OEM core. The water pump, thermostat and rad cap are all new. It should be it’s old self, but it’s not.
Last night I was driving here and there in 30+ C ( about 86F ) and the temp slowly rose to about 230F and steam started to fill the engine…
Reflections
I was sitting in the garage with a beer pondering how fix my top lift after it spilled all it’s oil when I noticed that I seemed to have developed x-ray vision. Maybe the beer, but I could “inside” my fenders. Looked pretty cool.
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Well this, plus another beer, gave me inspiration. I figured the oil escaped from the lift pump because it was too thin. So maybe organic is the…