[blinn]

Those who have installed aluminum radiators that are not exact Mustang replacements, are you installing the donor shroud? I understand that the shroud helps with the cooling - but sure is tacky! How are you attaching the radiators and shroud to radiator?

Brian

[ July 27, 2002, 05:25 PM: Message edited by: blinn ]

 

[Greg A. Warwick]

The shroud helps with cooling, that said however, it is Ugly. Russ Thompson sells s sweet little cover thing that hides the shroud nicely, and it comes in two flavors, those with hood hinges, and those without. Slap on a little Pro Liquid Buffer, and you've got some show sparkle.

GW

 

[blinn]

GW,
Certainly it would have to be polished But how is it attached!
Brian

 

[Todd Baumann]

It screws to the to plates at the corner of the rad., the ones that you put the hood pins on if you don't go with the hood hinge. I bought one and it looks great.
Todd

 

[John / My427SC]

I didn't use the shroud and so far so good...

Here is a link to one of my web pages that I am working on - I still need to add the text, but there are a lot of pictures. Click on the pics to see a larger view

Radiator, Hoses & Fan Shroud

 

[mmaier1]

You can also buy a black magic fan or similar that have built in shrouds. It's $200 however. I was thinking of trying no shroud as John has done, big aluminum radiator with little 302...might be ok.

John, can you tell me what kind of valve cover breathers your using?

 

[mmaier1]

John, I just looked at the pictures on your site. I noticed you riveted a support piece across the top. There is a cut in the top rail of your radiator that is there to allow for expansion when the thermostat opens and the hot coolant hits it. The radiator will expand much more at the top than at the bottom due to higher temps and over time will lead to stress cracks and leaks. Production cars use this feature to increase radiator durability.

Another thing to consider is rubber isolating the mounts to give the top rail room to expand and contract. Also helps absorb vibration. Might be overkill, might not.

 

[Micobrael]

Brian The shroud helps speed the air flow thru the radiator. Ok, the fans job is to draw air thru the radiator. As long as there is a good shroud around the fan then it wil draw air as specified. but only in that area where the fan is. If you don't use the stock shroud then I would recomend a two fan(elec) set up to spread out the airflow from the fans, or the one with pushers in front? Alot depends of course if you get stuck in traffic on a hot day horsepower etc.

 

[Tom Keiser]

FMS aluminum radiator, no donor shroud, no front aluminum panels (yet), Painless fan switch. We took a 5 hour cruise yesterday with stops along the way to have lunch & shop. Outside temps up to 99 degrees. The fan never ran and the gauge never went over 190.
Tom

 

[blinn]

Tom,
Wow! Fan never ran, what was the temp of the top of your head in that heat!
Brian

 

[Tom Keiser]

RED . I will use sunscreen next weekend.
Tom