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Old 04-28-2011, 10:25 AM
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So i had the fans out and im instatting my forward facing turbo header, and a corner of it hit the radiator and bent some of the fins in. It did not puncture anything, but dont know if there is a tool to straighten them, or if ive got nothing to worry about. Its about .25 inch deep and about a square inch thats dented in. Need to know if this really affects cooling.
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Not even a little bit. My radiator looks like a Civil War battle flag and it still keeps my car under 200.
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hell yes thats what I needed to hear..my radiator looks like something youd pay a few bucks for in the junk yard!! haha
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there is such a thing as a fin brush ( it might be known as another name). all it does is comb them back into a equal gap and help straighten them. i have one somewhere .
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Originally Posted by jasonisdn
there is such a thing as a fin brush ( it might be known as another name). all it does is comb them back into a equal gap and help straighten them. i have one somewhere .
Fin comb. Grainger's sells one that actually works on a car radiator. Most of the plastic ones don't work on anything I've ever found

http://www.grainger.com/Grainger/DIV...Fin-Comb-2YJ78

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I've used an old, regular hair comb to straighten radiator fins.



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