my new radiator

shogun · Post by **shogun** » Wed Apr 26, 2006 1:26 pm

on monday i started something i was planning a long time ago, improve cooleing eficiency of my car, so i got a bigger radiator, and it is a two row unit, cooling has improved a lot and better yet i have enough room to put a secondary fan, next on my agenda is an oil cooler, by the way i get all my parts at the junk yard, so it is allways a budget install

ps. its raining right now, once it lets off a bit ill shoot some pics

Mac · Post by **Mac** » Thu Apr 27, 2006 2:49 am

AE86's came standard with oil coolers, probably be a pretty easy job to put one in the tercel if you got all the hardware...

i'm not entireley sure where or how it hooks up, but seeing as how they both use the A-series engine, its more than likeley a possibility.

shogun · Post by **shogun** » Thu Apr 27, 2006 2:11 pm

i just got one from a friend that is going bigger, because of forced induction, its a canton unit with a sandwich adapter for a 4ag an it fits just have to make the oil lines and fit the cooler and se how it improves

pics tonight , at last it stopped raining

shogun · Post by **shogun** » Fri Apr 28, 2006 9:49 am

at last it stopped raining, well here are the pics, the engine is dirty as hell

T-Bone · Post by **T-Bone** » Sat Apr 29, 2006 8:17 am

nice job with the radiator, it looks like it ifts in there nice. your air cleaner box looks different from any other tercel. mine only has one post in the middle of the lid where you put the wing nut. it looks like yours has two post. did you do a mod to your air box?

shogun · Post by **shogun** » Sat Apr 29, 2006 10:20 pm

no its just the crappy varable ventouri carb that comes with the 3ascv

the radiator barely fits

today i raced 18 laps and i got pole position it never went hotter than 200 degrees

lllmoparlll · Post by **lllmoparlll** » Fri May 12, 2006 9:06 pm

what car did you take the radiator out of ?

shogun · Post by **shogun** » Sat May 13, 2006 11:59 am

camaro, i dont know what model but its the ones that come slanted

Ogedei · Post by **Ogedei** » Thu Jul 20, 2006 3:57 pm

Can you run a tape measure on the radiator to help us find the right radiator? thanks

Lollypop · Post by **Lollypop** » Thu Jul 20, 2006 4:11 pm

Hey Shogun looks like you really use that car.heheheheheheh

May be a dumb Question but what's that contraption going between the strut towers?

-----Justin-----0

Post by **ARCHINSTL** » Thu Jul 20, 2006 4:32 pm

It looks like a strut tower stiffener of some type. Apparently that is an option a number of Japanese automakers (and possibly those of other nations as well) offer nowadays. I remember looking at Element and Xb sales brochures a while back and noting that.
I guess it is something he needs in racing, but not something essential for street use?
Tom M.

shogun · Post by **shogun** » Fri Jul 21, 2006 9:23 am

its a strut tower brace, but its home made, mine got stolen i hada a cusco unit for a ae86 brough it from japan, but one time i went to get the car aligned i was stolen and nobody could be made responsible, so i bent a tube and welded here and there and got a strut bar for autocrossing

the rad meassurements i will post in a bit

Typrus · Post by **Typrus** » Sat Jul 22, 2006 9:32 pm

It stiffens the frame in the front SIGNIFICANTLY. They offer the same things for the rear shock mounts. Those 2 things alone are significant stiffeners of the frame in their own rights. I think that a system that linked a forward strut tower brace to a center rollbar-type setup to a rear crosstower type brace would make our cars rock-solid. Help handling significantly. Even absorb some of the torque from a more powerful engine preventing stress-fractures in the frame. Though one that went up to the rad-support, to the strut towers, across the cab under the dash, up across/over just behind the front seats as a rollbar, over to the rear shock-mounts, then across/over the far back, against the hatch would allow us over 300 horsies methinks, solong as it had the proper subframe-support network. You could even create custom mounts for, say, a Ford 9-inch rear axle. Or a front solid-axle setup. Or for a more sporty A-frame front independant suspension, as on Subies if memory serves properly. Would make it easier to lower, thereby increasing handling even more. Would create mounting points for a lower full-length bellypan, further increasing aerodynamics and thereby fuel economy, high-speed handling, and top-speed...

lol