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anyone running an aluminum radiator? i'm looking at the performance 26" afco from mancini. where do the trans lines connect? all they got is diamentions and the one in my car currently is out of an old ram, previous owner installed it. i basically want a bolt in with that aluminum racecar look. any help is appreicated thanks guys.

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I think you have to run a separate tranny cooler with that style of rad.

Keep looking, there are other aluminum radiators set up for tranny cooler lines.

I've seen em on Feebay for much cheaper and with built-in tranny cooler.

With your car you really should have a separate/better tranny cooler anyhow!

BRIAN

Hi, new to this forum and really enjoy it. I've researched Aluminum radiators a bit for one of my other cars,a modified 67' Belevedere 1, and I think you should check out Engineered Cooling Products, they have a very informative Web site. I wish I would have stumbled across it before I bought mine.

71Beeper wrote:I think you have to run a separate tranny cooler with that style of rad.

That depends on your set-up and how and where you use your vehicle. A street driven car with a mild torque converter, should have the cooler run through the radiator. The engine coolant will warm the trans fluid up on a cold start, and bring the trans up to operating temp more quickly. If you have a more radical set-up, higher stall converter in a race only car, or a very radical street car, running the cooler seperate from the radiator is OK. If you want to know for sure if you even need an auxillary cooler you should install a temp gauge in your return cooling line. Heat is the enemy of auto-transmissions and a high stall converter with low(3.23, 2.76) gears driven on the street or stop and go traffic will build heat quickly.

I am not sure if this is what you're looking for, but this is what I'm running. It's a Griffin. The brackets are custom, but relatively simple. There is a separate tranny cooler as well.

I personally like the looks of a stock radiater. I took my 26" rad. down to my local shop and had them make it into a 3 core for around 300 bucks. Thats cheaper then the aluminum rads and no need to custom make brackets ect and the bonus is it still looks stock. Same or better then aluminum, cheaper, stock appearance, what more could you ask for...

quapman wrote:I've seen em on Feebay for much cheaper and with built-in tranny cooler.

One thing to look for before ordering one is the tube size. Most of the cheap ones have tiny tubes which means less cooling area. I've researched quite a bit on these and for the price the Griffins seem like the way to go. Of course I don't have any first hand experience (yet) to back that up. I think I'm gonna go with a Griffin for my Nova.....ooops! Am I alowed to use that word here?

I have one of those ebay radiators because I couldn't afford an OE one at the time. Mine's made by Silla, in china unfortunately, but it does have the trans cooler in the bottom, and has one 1" core, and one 1/2" core. It keeps cool and I haven't had any problems with it. I also installed one in my girlfriend's Dart Sport. It is a downflow, not a crossflow like the Griffin or the BeCool.