Standing up radiator mod to retain ac
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How many people have done this mod to retain ac on their car and regret doing it.I see many people complete this mod and their car looks great i just would like to hear how hard its going to be to keep the car cool .
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Bingo, The thing is that retaining AC is pricy. The additional cost of tube headers, new condenser and lines racks up a bit. Regardless you will need to stand up the radiator for most front mount turbo installs. The issue I ran into is that having the condenser on the front of the rad and puller fans on the back meant having to cut the hood latch and build new brackets.
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I'll have to find the link, but I found some pictures of a C6/Truck manifold build by a speed shop and they didn't have to modify the hood latch, kept the swaybar, and the radiator in the stock location. Yeah, you have to buy a BMR turbo K member, but keeping the A/C and not buying a $300 "vertical" radiator made it an easy choice for me.