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Old 05-04-2012, 11:51 PM   #11
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Re: Do I need a bigger radiator for 450 HP Stroker with Vintage Air?

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Originally Posted by AusTx68 View Post
That doesn't make sense to me. There are lots of people that only use the radiator cooler and do just fine. Add a frame cooler to a stock setup and it can only get better. Maybe he's talking about heavy duty hauling or towing where a high performance external cooler is mandatory. I'll bet if you added an aluminum radiator with built in tranny cooler you'd be just fine.
I agree... Doesn't make sense to me either. If you use the stock rad trans cooler and add a frame cooler it would just seem to help. I def know he wasn't talking about towing or hauling. He wanted to know exactly what my set up was. He wanted to know year, model, engine size, HP, transmission, rear end ratio, tire size, mode of driving (street, strip, racing, DD), etc. He suggested a couple of trans coolers if using along with stock rad cooler or as stand alone. It was just strange that he had nothing good to say about the heat sink type cooler. He said he would never recommend them, or ever use them on his own cars.

I think I saw pictures of your cooling set up in a thread somewhere and I thought it was pretty good. If you have these, I would love to see them again. I believe you had a SS over flow on passenger side and frame mounted heat sink cooler on driver side.
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