[Mgs] mga radiator

[dave]

I was quoted upwards of $400 to recore.  Lbcarco has new ones for under $300, and there is a guy on ebay out of Knoxville selling them for just over $200.  Steel/copper of course.  

 

Since my other LBC’s also have steel/copper radiators, and electric fans, and I do just fine here in Dallas summers, I’m thinking that’s the way to go.  I’ll take lbcarco products any day.  Their stuff is great.  I’m going to hook up the electric fan to the F switch (and a relay).  Seems appropriate to me!

 

From: Mgs <mgs-bounces at autox.team.net> On Behalf Of Barrie Robinson via Mgs
Sent: Thursday, May 2, 2019 1:11 PM
To: mgs at autox.team.net
Subject: Re: [Mgs] mga radiator

 

Hello Max,

I hoped you used the special heat transferring paint.   There used to be one that has something like small chaff in it which was meant to improve heat transfer.

Barrie from Barrie

On 5/2/2019 2:01 PM, Max Heim via Mgs wrote:

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 <mailto: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 <mailto:david_breneman at yahoo.com> 

 

 

On Thursday, May 2, 2019, 12:41:14 AM PDT, PaulHunt73 <paulhunt73 at virginmedia.com <mailto: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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