[Mgs] mga radiator

[Max Heim]

I was recently quoted $450 to recore a Mk.1 MGB radiator. So it has become rather costly. But if you are a stickler for the original appearance, and want to insure a perfect fit, I think that is how you would want to go.

That said, I wound up with the Moss Motors premium aluminum radiator, and it fit fine, and seems to work great. I painted it black so it didn’t stand out as a foreign object, and can’t be seen through the grill (this really bugs me when I see it on other cars).

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Max Heim
'66 MGB

> On May 2, 2019, at 6:53 AM, David Breneman via Mgs <mgs at autox.team.net> wrote:
> 
> With what I paid, $100 was a rounding error (and he ended up doing
> a lot of work for free, because it was a fixed-price job and he's a
> perfectionist).  But it's not the first time I'd heard of this problem
> with new radiators.  A lot of people complain about cooling issues 
> with their MGAs.  I've never had a problem, even with weather in 
> the 80s.  And if it's hotter than that, I overheat long before the
> car would.
> 
> 
> David Breneman david_breneman at yahoo.com
> 
> 
> On Thursday, May 2, 2019, 12:41:14 AM PDT, PaulHunt73 <paulhunt73 at virginmedia.com> wrote:
> 
> 
> Hmmm.  With my cynical hat on I'd say that could be a way of spending $400 
> rather than $300.
> 
> PaulH.
> 
> ----- Original Message ----- 
> > When I got my MGA restored, the mechanic recommended rebuilding the
> > original radiator rather then buying a replacement, because the new ones
> > have fewer "tubes" (whatever the actual term is in radiator-speak) in them
> > than the originals, so there is less surface area for cooling. 
> 
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