Hi guys, thought i'd post up some progress on some radiators i'm making for a guys Austin Mini here in New Zealand.. It's his race car and apparently 1x radiator wont cut it, so 2x it is..

The cores are 325x260x42mm, two rows of tube.

This job is the first aluminum part i've welded with my brand new dynasty 200dx. I'm used to a syncrowave 350lx at work which is a beast, but has a mind of its own to do with arc wandering.

I'm yet to weld on the brackets since he has to take them away, but I just finished these about 20 minutes ago and had to share.

 

Very nice. I would love to weld like that i guess practice makes perfect, I bought a brand new HTP Invertig 201 two years ago and cant figure out the settings so i got aggravated and have not touched it since.

 

looks great. where did you get the cores?

 

These are China cores, I work for a radiator shop in New Zealand so we import them.. We used to buy all american cores but we were approached by a chinese company and we've been buying from them for a 1/4 of the price

 

Keep at it! Practise DOES make perfect...

 

Pics of the race car!??!?!

 

I will ask my customer when they are properly mounted for some pictures of it

 

this guy is in Christchurch where they just had big earthquake, hope all is well

 

Yeah, all is well.. Was not fun to be woken up at 4:35 am with a 7.1 earthquake..

The only damage I had was the strapping holding my G Size argon cylinder snapped and the cylinder fell on my water cooled torch lead, so I will have to replace that..

I literally booted my girlfriend out of the bed to get her under a door frame.. Never felt anything this bad before

http://www.stuff.co.nz/national/4096...ashed-by-quake

 

glad you are ok

 

NICE

 

that's nuts. Earthquakes are no joke.

 

Where did you get the cores from and do they have alot of sizes?

 

Redneck: Cheers My house was somewhat undamaged, amazing driving around town seeing other peoples houses, though..

JDMCRX: I'm in new zealand, so probably not much good for you to get cores from

 

Thanks for sharing the pictures. Did you customize this? My father made the radiator for me because he is a mechanic and he knows the ins and out of radiators. I will also post the pictures soon.

 

How do you mean Customize? I built the radiators from scratch (Apart from the core)

 

how does it flow from one rad to the other? curious how the water pump forces it through both cores

 

They are joined from the pipe on the top of them.. From what I understand it works quite well but have not seen any testing done or so forth. I made these radiators months ago, have since made 3 more sets with no issues.

Alot of people are coming to me with Chinese radiators as samples, they buy them and dont like them and get mine and have no issues.. Lots of referrals.

 

old mini or new bmw mini?

 

New minis are not made by Austin, hence being an original. Nice welding though

 

I'm well aware of that but I've seen alot of people call them that by mistake.

 

I dont know the exact year of these, but i'd be guessing mid 70's or early 80s. SOHC powerplants!

The guys i'm making these for have strict racing rules and so forth about motor modification..

 

This guy was in another earthqauke hes from christchruch hope he is OK

 

hope all is well man!

 

as I type this i'm still getting aftershocks..

Words cannot describe how scary it was yesterday afternoon..

Welding up a massive scania truck intercooler (630x720x67mm) in overalls, ear plugs, gloves, welding helmet.. Tucked into the corner of my aluminum department at the radiator shop I work at when it started shaking.. 6.3 magnitude earthquake..

Run outside getting thrown left to right throwing off my welding gear to be met with a massive dust plume coming from town where buildings had fallen down..

Couldnt call my partner, cell phones were down.. took me 30-45 minutes to do a normally 5 minute drive.. massive damage, massive liquifaction..

My partner and family is all okay, house is livable but massive cracks in brickwork.. my home workshop/cash cow is a write off.. concrete floor is split in 2 with massive liquifaction..