[DeTomaso] fluidyne radiator

[John Donahue]

Do you have a front-mounted a/c condenser with the Hall radiator?  

On Oct 21, 2014, at 3:02 PM, Brent Stewart via DeTomaso <detomaso at poca.com> wrote:

>   +1 with my hall brass radiator. If weight isn't a primary concern, this
>   is a great way to go!
>   On Tuesday, October 21, 2014 2:24 PM, Mike Drew via DeTomaso
>   <detomaso at poca.com> wrote:
>     In a message dated 10/21/14 12 20 22,
>   [1]michaelbarnessrt10 at hotmail.co.uk
>     writes:
>       Anywhere in England  i can get a new Fluidyne or similar radiator
>       ,chaps
>>>> I don't know of any Fluidyne radiator retailers in England.
>     One of the world's premier radiator manufacturers is located in the
>     industrial park at Silverstone raceway:
>     [2]http://www.dockingengineering.com/products.html
>     They make all the cooling bits for most of the F-1 teams, among other
>     things.
>     I have driven a Pantera equipped with one of their radiators.  It was
>     exquisitely built, fantastically expensive, and didn't cool worth a
>     damn.  However, I don't blame them--the owner of the car is a fanatic
>     about light weight, and he specified that he wanted a radiator that
>   was
>     smaller than stock to cut down on the weight of the water it
>     carried!!!!  His 'reasoning' was that England rarely gets hot enough
>   to
>     tax a car's cooling system.  I drove his car to Italy in summer heat,
>     and the temp needle hovered in the red zone the entire time, but it
>     never technically 'overheated'.
>     So, having said all that, I'm sure they could build you a proper
>     radiator that was adequately sized for the job (I'd use the existing
>     unit as a template for sizing purposes).
>     Having said all THAT, if it was my money being spent, I'd bypass the
>     whole aluminum radiator thing and just get a drop-in brass
>   replacement
>     from Hall Pantera:
> 
>   [3]http://hallpantera.com/cgi-bin/p/awtp-product.cgi?d=hallpantera-inc&
>   ite
>     m=20270
>     Simply put, these things are terrific.  They have something like 30%
>     greater heat dissapation versus the stock unit, yet they occupy the
>     same space.  They come with modern screw-in thermoswitches and diodes
>     to ground the cooling fans to the body too, a nice bonus.  The one in
>     my car is more than 20 years old; this past weekend, I drove my
>   Pantera
>     slowly around Lake Tahoe, sometimes grinding up steep hills in first
>     gear behind endless traffic.  My 539 hp engine never got over 190
>     degrees.  I could see that the #2 radiator fan was cycling on and
>   off,
>     indicating that the cooling system was shedding heat efficiently
>   enough
>     that it wasn't needed all the time, and certainly was not needed
>     anytime we went more than about 25-30 mph.  The #1 fan would shut off
>     when driving on the highway, even climbing almost 8000-foot
>   mountains.
>     Best thing about a brass radiator is that any local shop can repair
>     it.  If you pick up a rock and hole your Fluidyne radiator, it goes
>     into the bin.
>     I am using the matching drop-in-replacement pusher fans:
> 
>   [4]http://hallpantera.com/cgi-bin/p/awtp-product.cgi?d=hallpantera-inc&
>   ite
>     m=20271
>     Great stuff there too.
>     Mike
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> References
> 
>   1. mailto:michaelbarnessrt10 at hotmail.co.uk
>   2. http://www.dockingengineering.com/products.html
>   3. http://hallpantera.com/cgi-bin/p/awtp-product.cgi?d=hallpantera-inc&ite
>   4. http://hallpantera.com/cgi-bin/p/awtp-product.cgi?d=hallpantera-inc&ite
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