Ok so I finished my install for the most part, (Stock Fans don't work with Koyo radiators), and as I was emptying out my catch can for the radiator fluid I found this Ruber stopper looking thing.










[Modified by Spyderwebab, 9:56 PM 1/28/2003]


[Modified by Spyderwebab, 9:57 PM 1/28/2003]

 

lmao. thats what the radiator sits on.

 

That was a good laugh. Busta is right!

 

Thank you god!!!, cause I had to do this damn thing in the dark with one flash light in the middle of a damn parking with no other light, all by myself...
EDIT: you guys can make fun of me while I'm gone turning on the car and making sure everything is ok....
By the way the Koyo 53mm radiator is a good 1 1/2 times the weight of a stock GSR radiator... AND the damn stock fan doesn't work... Damn Yogi at http://www.radiator.com, he lied and said it would hook up just like a stock one would..


[Modified by Spyderwebab, 8:14 PM 1/28/2003]

 

hahahahha...DoH

good times ,good times

 

Yup, that's what the radaitors sits on. Just look down there, there should be a space to place those things, one on each side.

 

 

hahah........this guy was all freakin out thinking it was like a flux capacitator or something...

 

Lol, I found the other one lying on the ground after I came back from my test drive...
Well I learned lots of stuff tonight, A) save car work for the daytime so you can see EVERYTHING thats going on B) Have help standing by C) Those metal push together clamps on the hoses are damn near impossible to get off with your hand.

You guys think I'll be ok for the next couple of days driving withtout a radiator fan to work (~10 miles and takes about 15 minutes) of course I have to drive under 4000 rpms because of my break in period so its not like I'll be putting the engine through hell .

 

Just watch your temp gauge, and spend as little time standing still as possible.

 

Wanted to share new pics of the radiator up top in first post..

 

That nice new motor wont last long once it overheats one good time.....Good Luck

 

who needs fans as long as you got that bling bling rad.

 

Lol...this thread is old(From last nights installation).

As for this:

When you are running Toda B's and 12:1 compression on a just-out-of-the-shop rebuilt motor, I think you'd change your leaky stock radiator too...

As for the absent fan read my post from today:
https://honda-tech.com/zerothread?id=400536

 

yep

 

dang, guess i've been put in my place... so you risk it by running no fans. a stock rad would have still been ok and all you fans would have fit...

 

Problem is you assume before you know, and you don't seem to want to ask so I'll tell you: I've only driven it 1/8 of a mile since I installed the radiator(To cycle the coolant through the engine so the freezing temps don't crack the block, and I haven't driven it since.

 

what kind of fans work well with koyo radiators?

 

Probably F.A.L. electric fans or something of that sort........

Aaron what are you d0ing with your OEM rad....If your not doing anything with it i'll take it off your hands....I dont remember it leaking at all the whole time the car was running on Sat....