Last friday was in L.A. on the new toll road 73 i think it is
in my 82 12a 7, going up this long hill and i swear i've never seen anything like it, but the whole top of my radiator blew straight off....BANG !!!! oh **** i said
and pulled over. had to have it towed home back to san diego. thought i'd share...

 

Wow. That must have been messy!

Sorry to hear that, it sucks when stuff breaks!

 

Oh that would suck! Did it leave a dent in your hood or did the top get slung by the fan? I think its fixable, on the bright side.

 

damn thats sucks.

kinda reminds me at the time when a guys car overheated at the gas station, it was like an old civic hatch or some thing like it.... the dumb *** pops his hood and is just looking at his motor... then... with pure stupidity at hand he puts his hand on the radiator cap, turns it and bam... HOT Fluid alll over the place.. and him... bah... he screamed like a little girl.

 

oh, hell yeah it was messy, anti-freeze everywhere, all over the windshield,engine, everything under the hood.
the hood 'skin' didn't dent just the bracing got whacked.
reminds me of ,,when in nascar racing and ' were' in the car, and the engine goes and oil all over the windshield
and you can't see ****. it was just like that.. yeah it sucked. so now time to install a brand new radiator today. and some more water wetter. may as well flush the engine too.

 

I didn't see an new radiator cap on your list of new things. They are designed to release fluid into the at a certain pressure as your engine heats up. If it didn't release this might be why your radiator poped. Worth the 10$ just to be sure. It would suck to blow another rad, or hose.

 

is it an auto?

 

doesnt really matter
all new rx-7 rads that i have seen come with the auto hookups anyways

 

i'm lucky. now that i think about it, the radiator was the weakiest link, the hoses held, the internal o-rings held,
**** thats a lot of presure.

 

Damn Mark.. what were you doing up there?
I have a spare radiator if you wanna buy it,.. almost new..heheh, almost.. just needs some minor fixing

 

Mel. thanks man, but i've got it together. drove a friend(kinda) to buy a truck in santa ana,,,,never made it,,,Rats !! lol just as soon as i got back parked the 82,
got in the -SE and went back up to santa ana and home boy scored a 'pristine' 2001 nissan frontier extra cab with 25.000 miles, garaged,for $ 8,000 dollors cash
from this awesome pacific islander woman i fell in love with her at first sight. she's a GEM perfect !!! i swear.

 

ditch the truck buy the woman!

 

yea radiators suck when they blow. i was in a the muddslings and a guy drove up to the line with his hood just smoking like crazy, everyone was yelling stop but with a smile on his face the dumbass stomped the pedal and got about half way and got stuck.....well in mudslings it is floored for the whole time and BOOM! radiator frag and anitfreeze every where. it was the coolest noise i've heard though....i bet he was scared pooless <---edited for content.