EBay Radiators
04-23-2012, 10:38 PM
#42
Pat
04-23-2012, 10:44 PM
#43
Pat
05-18-2012, 07:45 PM
#44
I finished the painting and got everything re-installed. Also repainted my bumper and lower air scoop to take care of some road rash. Declaring this project done for now. I also reworked my lower radiator hose. Got a 1.75 - 1.5 reducer from Jags that Run and used the top half of my old hose along with a newer bottom hose to get all the angles right. The first hose I tried was close, but was kinking a little bit and I was afraid it was collapsing. changing the hose made a 10* difference at highway cruise speeds.
Now that I have cool intake air I think I will take it to the Wednesday night street drags and see if it helped.
Pat
Now that I have cool intake air I think I will take it to the Wednesday night street drags and see if it helped.
Pat
Last edited by Stu Cool; 05-18-2012 at 10:14 PM.
07-27-2012, 05:40 AM
#47
By the way I am driving the Stude across country to South Bend for the International meet right now. I am not very happy with this radiator I installed. It does not have sufficient capacity and I have been having over heating problems that I never had with the old down flow radiator :-(. So back to the drawing board if I make it back home without burning the darn thing up. here is a picture at the Bonneville Salt Flats.
Pat
07-27-2012, 09:43 AM
#51
I read through this thread about the ebay cooling system parts. I went thru a similar build a couple years ago in that I purchased a chinese radiator off ebay...and had the same problems you are having.. poor cooling. So in my latest build I am using a Griffin radiator. Live and learn...cheaper is not always better.
Nice car and nice build!
Nice car and nice build!
07-28-2012, 08:11 AM
#54
I noticed a rise of about 10-15 degrees compared to my previous brass down flow when I first installed it. At sea level I does ok driving down the highway on level ground with AC, runs about 205-210 on a hot day. In the desert on long steep hills, temp starts climbing and will go right up to 250 if you are not careful. Coming across Nevada I found if I turned the AC off and drove 65 it would stay about 210. I had to slow to 55 on hills or temp would go up. Yesterday I drove from Laramie WY to Bellevue and was able to drive 75 mph all the way with it never going above 205. Out side temps were in the low 90s in the afternoon. I did not run the AC at all for fear of running the temps way up again so we just kicked it old school with arms out the window. Last night I found the vacuum hose had popped off my PCV so it had a big vacuum leak, probably had it running lean, but the computer should have compensated for that. Fixed the hose and clamped it, will see if that makes a difference.
lilhemi, I don't have the part numbers for the hoses handy, in fact the bottom one is two hoses joined by a 1.5 to 1.75 adapter from Jags that Run. To find the hoses I went to my favorite auto parts store ( A real one where they don't have to ask if it has AC and auto transmission when you buy a hose clamp.) and they let me study their big Gates Hose book. I bent a coat hanger in the shape I wanted and measured the length. The Gates book is organized by inlet and out let sizes and length and has pictures of each hose. When I found a couple that looked they would work, the counter man took me back into the bowels of the parts shelves and we looked at the ones I found in the book till we found ones that worked. Was a little tedious but the hoses fit pretty well.
Leaving Bellevue today for Audubon Iowa, then on to South Bend Indiana on Monday for the Studebaker International Meet.
Pat
lilhemi, I don't have the part numbers for the hoses handy, in fact the bottom one is two hoses joined by a 1.5 to 1.75 adapter from Jags that Run. To find the hoses I went to my favorite auto parts store ( A real one where they don't have to ask if it has AC and auto transmission when you buy a hose clamp.) and they let me study their big Gates Hose book. I bent a coat hanger in the shape I wanted and measured the length. The Gates book is organized by inlet and out let sizes and length and has pictures of each hose. When I found a couple that looked they would work, the counter man took me back into the bowels of the parts shelves and we looked at the ones I found in the book till we found ones that worked. Was a little tedious but the hoses fit pretty well.
Leaving Bellevue today for Audubon Iowa, then on to South Bend Indiana on Monday for the Studebaker International Meet.
Pat
07-28-2012, 09:01 AM
#55
8 Second Club
lilhemi, I don't have the part numbers for the hoses handy, in fact the bottom one is two hoses joined by a 1.5 to 1.75 adapter from Jags that Run. To find the hoses I went to my favorite auto parts store ( A real one where they don't have to ask if it has AC and auto transmission when you buy a hose clamp.) and they let me study their big Gates Hose book. I bent a coat hanger in the shape I wanted and measured the length. The Gates book is organized by inlet and out let sizes and length and has pictures of each hose. When I found a couple that looked they would work, the counter man took me back into the bowels of the parts shelves and we looked at the ones I found in the book till we found ones that worked. Was a little tedious but the hoses fit pretty well.
thanks for the info 
07-30-2012, 09:13 PM
#59
Pat
08-20-2012, 07:23 PM
#60
I talked with the Griffin folks at Hot August Nights. They have a very nice LS conversion radiator, but unfortunately it is a couple inches too wide. When I got home, I called them up and based on their recommendation I have ordered an aluminum down flow radiator that will bolt in and even look pretty much like the Studebaker radiator. It has 2 rows of 1.25 tubes that will more than double the capacity of my previous copper/brass radiator. It will be configured for LS hoses and will have the top connector on the passenger side, just like I need it. It will have the rad cap above the motor which the cross flow does not and I was told that will also make a difference. It will also have a trans cooler in the bottom tank that I never have had. So, I am anxiously waiting for that to arrive in a couple weeks. I will update with pictures once it arrives.
Pat
Pat