What are you all using for radiators?
09-15-2015, 04:12 PM
#1
What are you all using for radiators?
OK, I towed my big trailer, 26' race car hauler loaded with tools, tires, gas, etc for the first time with the new trans a few weeks ago. Didn't get 30 miles from the house before the radiator end cap cracked. Parked it and used a buddies truck till Sunday night, and then put a Advance Auto stock replacement in it in a grocery store parking lot to bring it home. Towed again last weekend and while I am not overheating, I normally run about 170 and it was hitting 210 accelerating and going up hills. Looking for a two row radiator or something like that.
Truck is a '03 Suburban 1500 with the stock 5.3 flex fuel, freshly rebuilt 4L60E with corvette servo, shift kit, upgraded clutches, beast sun shell and 5 pinion planetaries. I am putting a LQ4 6.0 together with a mild cam, mild port and polish, long tube headers, OR Y pipe, new rings, bearings, oil pump, timing set, springs, water pump, belts and hoses and the balancer.
What is a good high capacity radiator, I have the 34" core, and will be putting dual fans on when I put the 6.0 in and get it tuned.
Truck is a '03 Suburban 1500 with the stock 5.3 flex fuel, freshly rebuilt 4L60E with corvette servo, shift kit, upgraded clutches, beast sun shell and 5 pinion planetaries. I am putting a LQ4 6.0 together with a mild cam, mild port and polish, long tube headers, OR Y pipe, new rings, bearings, oil pump, timing set, springs, water pump, belts and hoses and the balancer.
What is a good high capacity radiator, I have the 34" core, and will be putting dual fans on when I put the 6.0 in and get it tuned.
09-16-2015, 03:55 PM
#2
OK, I towed my big trailer, 26' race car hauler loaded with tools, tires, gas, etc for the first time with the new trans a few weeks ago. Didn't get 30 miles from the house before the radiator end cap cracked. Parked it and used a buddies truck till Sunday night, and then put a Advance Auto stock replacement in it in a grocery store parking lot to bring it home. Towed again last weekend and while I am not overheating, I normally run about 170 and it was hitting 210 accelerating and going up hills. Looking for a two row radiator or something like that.
Truck is a '03 Suburban 1500 with the stock 5.3 flex fuel, freshly rebuilt 4L60E with corvette servo, shift kit, upgraded clutches, beast sun shell and 5 pinion planetaries. I am putting a LQ4 6.0 together with a mild cam, mild port and polish, long tube headers, OR Y pipe, new rings, bearings, oil pump, timing set, springs, water pump, belts and hoses and the balancer.
What is a good high capacity radiator, I have the 34" core, and will be putting dual fans on when I put the 6.0 in and get it tuned.
Truck is a '03 Suburban 1500 with the stock 5.3 flex fuel, freshly rebuilt 4L60E with corvette servo, shift kit, upgraded clutches, beast sun shell and 5 pinion planetaries. I am putting a LQ4 6.0 together with a mild cam, mild port and polish, long tube headers, OR Y pipe, new rings, bearings, oil pump, timing set, springs, water pump, belts and hoses and the balancer.
What is a good high capacity radiator, I have the 34" core, and will be putting dual fans on when I put the 6.0 in and get it tuned.
09-21-2015, 07:45 AM
#3
OK, maybe I am going about this wrong.
Is anyone having issues with not holding temp while towing or driving hard, in traffic with the AC on? I know that the efan will help, but when I am going 65mph down the highway, and pulling a hill, and it runs up from 170-210, I start getting nervous! Anyone having issues?
Is anyone having issues with not holding temp while towing or driving hard, in traffic with the AC on? I know that the efan will help, but when I am going 65mph down the highway, and pulling a hill, and it runs up from 170-210, I start getting nervous! Anyone having issues?
