Another Alpine radiator improvement

Brad R. Sahr (brsahr(at)imation.com)
Fri, 31 Jul 1998 00:14:32 -0500

I talked with a man today (Erich VanDerhorst of Swede Hollow (Volvo,Saab shop in St. Paul, MN)) who has owned a number of Healy's, Triumphs, and of course Volvos. He is about seventy and has worked on/with cars his whole life. Currently he's working on a Porsche 356C, if I remembered the number correctly.

The two options I've seen discussed here for radiator (cooling) improvements is to add an electric fan or to modify the radiator from a two row to a three row. Erich brought up a third option - adding a coolant reservoir in the cooling system. Would this provide as much improvement as the other methods?

Brad Sahr brsahr(at)imation.com '64 Series IV automatic (that's why I talk to the Volvo guys)