I just bought the Fluidyne 2 weeks ago from Dale. It fits good except that it
is thicker
and the shroud won't fit up to the radiator core support. I put spacers on the
bottom
2 bolts but the top is 1/2 inch short of lining up with the screw hole. I'm
going
to fabricate some kind of plate to attach it to and blank off the gap. Running
a
high hp motor doesn't work well without the shroud.
Brent
> Date: Wed, 6 Mar 2013 13:23:10 -0800
> From: sganz@pacbell.net
> Subject: Re: [Tigers] Aluminum Radiator
> To: alw6464@gmail.com; banana111@msn.com
> CC: tigers@autox.team.net
>
> Fluidyne hasen't made the radiator for the Tiger in a number of years. I got
> lucky can got one from someone NIB off of EPay for mid $300's and was glad
to
> get it. It's a very thick radiator, and the one that I have is a 2 pass
> radiator. I do not have it in the car now but it will go in with the new
motor
> some day. I have the Griffin in the car now and it's a nice radiator better
then
> stock, but looks to have much less cooling capacity then the Fluidyne and
much
> less substantial in the manufacturing area. The Griffin fit without much
trouble
> and seems to work fine with the stock 260 that's in the car. I did not run a
> shroud on the Griffin, but I think it would fit without much trouble but I
think
> it would be needed if I really drove the car more. I was just too lazy to
put it
> on.
>
> I don't know how the shroud fits on the fluidyne but I would imagine it
might
> take more work to make it fit given the different dimension. That being said
I
> have only looked at it in the box so might be a more or less work. Also I
think
> one other place that makes custom radiators in Arizona (Davis???) has one
for
> the Tiger but can't rember the name, it was like $600+ as I recall and weeks
to
> fab. I have run various Fluidyne radiators in my other car and they are
well
> made product and if you have the 2 pass model it's a good one but not sure
if
> other styles were made.
>
> Sandy
>
>
>
> ----- Original Message ----
> From: Alexander Washick <alw6464@gmail.com>
> To: Brent Edinger <banana111@msn.com>
> Cc: "tigers@autox.team.net" <tigers@autox.team.net>
> Sent: Wed, March 6, 2013 1:03:47 PM
> Subject: Re: [Tigers] Aluminum Radiator
>
> Brent Where did you get this radiator? I don't even see that they list
> one for a Tiger. Was it custom made? I have a aluminum radiator that is
> from Dale's Restorations in Cal.and it fits perfect and solved all of my
> cooling problems and I run a mildly modified 302 with air conditioning on a
> daily basis and I live in Florida. Many believe that his is same as
> Griffin's but that is not the case for many years. He designed his own they
> are made for him. It is a great product and out performs the Griffin! How
> do I know? A few years ago, I called Dale to see if he had a Griffin and I
> didn't want to wait for the Griffin to be made to order. He took the time
> to explain what differences were and it sure proved right for me as I had
> used all the cooling mods listed on Tigers United and others and was still
> having big problems!! If this Fluidyne was made to fit your car and doesn't
> then I would send it back and talk to Dale. Al
>
> On Mon, Mar 4, 2013 at 11:33 PM, Brent Edinger <banana111@msn.com> wrote:
>
> > I just installed an aluminum Fluidyne radiator and when it came time
> > to install the fan shroud I found the thickness of the new radiator
> > won't allow it to be installed. There is about a half inch gap between
> > the fwd edge of the shroud and the aft edge of the radiator support,
> > Any tricks to this? I built a little splice plate and It's installed but
it
> > doesn't look good and I can see air will leak around over the top of the
> > radiator.
> >
> > Brent
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