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Author Topic: Radiator Talk For Serious Cars  (Read 167 times)
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« on: May 06, 2011, 09:34:32 PM »

So I was wondering if you guys have any good input here. I bought a replacement radiator for my RX7 which my tuner says was a rip off. I used Silverton Radiators Roodepoort, they made me a custom one from scratch based on my original one.... here's where my issues started, without my go ahead they made it from copper which wasn't my request and they charged me R5000.00 for it and according to my tuner he wouldn't recommend a copper radiator as it's prone to getting hotter quicker, their receipt they gave me states that if the radiator is hooked up and they do not get to re-pressure test it in about a couple weeks then the item cannot be returned.... so the previous mech that looked at my car before Rotrix fitted that radiator but not fully but connecting all the pipes like they did means I cannot return it to Silverton  Angry , the next issue was that my radiator fans didn't line up properly with it and my radiator mounts were in different places to where they'd made the new ones so it doesn't line up yet they made it from my original so I can't understand why, the next issue at the time of me fitting this radiator was that my water seals had gone so the car couldn't be pressure tested at that stage because they would've blamed heat issues etc on my engine. So at Rotrix, Karel removed the evil copper radiator and placed a standard RX7 radiator in it's place for R1000.00. Feel free to throw feedback guys.
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« Reply #1 on: May 06, 2011, 09:36:12 PM »

oh and the evil copper radiator is still laying around if somebody wants to pay me R5000.00 to melt it down and turn it into conductors for electricity of some sort Wink
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« Reply #2 on: May 09, 2011, 09:28:32 AM »

Rob, read this please: http://www.caparadiator.com/aluminumvscopper.html

I wouldn't have gone for either. Next time you need a radiator chat to me please, can hook you up with the proper stuff like you saw on the demo prelude. That will last a life time versus these rubbish units locally.

The stock OEM one you're using now is good enough meanwhile
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