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What radiator should be used with a super charger?

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Old Sep 7, 2005 | 02:41 AM
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What radiator should be used with a super charger?

I was wondering what radiators are people using in there first gens. I want to upgrade from the stock cause I am going to install a 7inch super charger. Any sugestions?
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Old Sep 7, 2005 | 03:05 AM
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When mine started leaking I took it to a radiator shop and they converted it to a four row radiator with super thin cooling fins. If you find a radiator shop that you trust I would recomend this asking them about this. It cools amazingly. My car stays way cooler than it used to.
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Old Sep 8, 2005 | 01:37 AM
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Do you know what brand of radiator it was?
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Old Sep 8, 2005 | 02:48 AM
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It was custom built into the stock top and bottom pieces. 4 rows barely fits, and it is a heavy **** now, but I can't argue with amazing cooling. However, I am not supercharged, nor turboed, so I can not tell you exactly how this would perform on a motor that is, but I do not see any other radiator doing a better job cooling than mine does. Hope that answers your question. Good luck.
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Old Sep 8, 2005 | 02:58 AM
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the stock radiator will work fine. I used to work for camden/atkins, and all of the camden cars I saw were using the stock radiator without heat issues.

The only way id see you needing to run a better radiator is if you were running quite a bit of boost. There are drop in alluminum replacement radiators availble if you know where to look.

heres a link to a drop in replacement alluminum radiator available for the first gen

http://www.tweakit.net/shop/product_...roducts_id=399
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