Anyone Have Lt1 Oem Radiator
08-08-2008, 03:56 PM
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I can hit up the junkyard on Monday and let you know what I find. But just cause your car overheats, doesn't mean you should jump and buy a whole new radiator. I would check to see that your stat is working properly and that you have no leaks in your system. After you cure your overheating issue, you can get your car reprogrammed to run a little cooler. The oem cooling system works fine, when properly functioning that is. Try to fix it before you replace anything.
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try not to get the 97 rad that one is a bit smaller then 94-96 but lil bigger then 98-02. also get the 160 t stat and get fans tuned and run green coolent with redline water wetter
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I can hit up the junkyard on Monday and let you know what I find. But just cause your car overheats, doesn't mean you should jump and buy a whole new radiator. I would check to see that your stat is working properly and that you have no leaks in your system. After you cure your overheating issue, you can get your car reprogrammed to run a little cooler. The oem cooling system works fine, when properly functioning that is. Try to fix it before you replace anything.
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I just changed mine out because my old was leaking. Bought a new OEM one off of ebay from a user named theradiatorconnection. Shipping was fast, install was great. $49 for the radiator!
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a couple of people that you might want to hit up is top fig and bad 30th. They both post up here but had a lot of the same problems as you. If the lt1 is not to your liking let me know and I will buy it off of you. I want to run it on my new set up. The becools are nice, a pain to get in but work great if you don't mind the $. 462 vs 130. As far as the coolent use water wetter and distiled water. There was a large court case with dex cool and how it can cause long term damage to your car when exposed to air. In so cal we really don't have to worry about freezing temps just heat waves. Dex cool does have some stuff that is supposed to help lube the water pump. I know quite a few people that have been running there set ups with water and water wetter with out problems for a while now. Don't forget about the plug that is at the bottom of the drivers side of the radiator that you might have to cut off or plug on the lt1.
