Type and position of radiator.

[jkseries]

Hi i'm starting to look at rads for my conversion. Does anyone have the definative answer of what to fit and where in a round nose.

Any advice is greatly welcomed.

James

[evolotion]

im runnign a rad from a square-headlighted nissan micra, its very small and thick, kinda like the mini one except allloy, works a treat, i believe (from pics) picKup is also runnign this radiator.

The metro rad is also a good choice, only prob is one end tank wil generally be very close to the exhaust and space for a fan is limited due to the water takeoff on teh front of the block, i have made an adaptor that swings this pipe out to under the dizzy to get more room for a rad, can take pics if you want.

[darrell cripps]

I am using a mpi mini rad and it works fine for me :P

[clanman]

I'm using a honda civic rad , it cools well and the outlets are in a good position. it has a metro fan fitted on mine don't know what the honda fans like.

[GEDI]

im runnign a rad from a square-headlighted nissan micra

im also using this rad, are u using an expansion tank? if so where did you plumb in the feed? im having a right arse trying to get this all to fit and getting clearance around the block outlet you talked about, pictures would be appreciated.

sorry james for hijacking your post :D

[evolotion]

not useing the expansion tank, i was guna origionally, but there was no room for it. so jsut out a bolt in teh hose that leads to it, and plumbed the rad in as if it didnt have a rad-cap(the cap on the rad is now essentially a glorified bleed nipple), and used the rover 400 donor header tank.
Also used a base model pug106 fan as its very very slim :)

5kmiles so far and never overheated, from idleing in traffic for hours in hot weather with teh heater off, to top speed runs on private ground!

Munching food the now but wil get a pic once i finish :)

[evolotion]

crap, sorry got distracted with a few other "wee jobs" i had to do that i'd been putting off.. il do my best to remember tomorow :)

[evolotion]

sorted, pics in the gallery.

[GEDI]

cheers buddy :D

[fbm-spec]

i used a curved metro rad ... the finely finned one .. there is a piccy of it in my gallery

cheers fbm-spec

[jkseries]

Thanks guys that's fantastic. Off to the scrappy.

James