I just bought one.. couldn't resist any longer.. not for $98!!! Will put it in when I get home in a months time.

Which one have people been buying? the coolnuts one, or the ASI Performance one? I went with coolnuts... They seem to have a different plug fitting..

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tim
68 Deluxe 1293, HIF44, megajolt/EDIS4, daihatsu alternator..

'a mini is for life, not just for christmas!'

I ended up going with ASI. I think they are much of a muchness anyway.

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"In two years time your car will be like a lady's clothes, out of date, my car will still be in fashion when I am dead" - Sir Alec speaking to Pininfarina

I went with coolnuts a while back, hadn't arrived for a while & so naturally I thought it must have just been caught up in the xmass post for a while.....
Q hey wheres my rad?
A I just looked up the tracking # & its on its way back....will send it asap.
not really sure if they sent it to begin with, too bad my holidays are now over

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one van, one mini s, one knitted cardigan

I know you don't want to mix red and green radiator coolants!

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Noli Illegitimi Carborundum

i ordered one before the new year, i was starting to get worried, but auspost threatened to go on strike, and it was xmas as well.

It turned up on the 29th, day 13 of waiting. 13 days from china isnt too bad at all, especially during the xmas hols.

havent put it in yet, waiting on other parts in the mail before i start surgery.

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Aussie Leyland, Aussie Factory, Aussie Mini S.

damn dodgy ebay seller.. getting refund and will purchase from the 'less dodgy' seller. 98.7% vs 99%....

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tim
68 Deluxe 1293, HIF44, megajolt/EDIS4, daihatsu alternator..

'a mini is for life, not just for christmas!'

haha i just bought one as well..

Yeap, my opinion has only just ben re-inforced. Aluminum Radiators = crap. Just got (another) car in with one of these things. Coolant everywhere but where it should be. Another split header tank.

Give me copper anyday.

Me no like alloy ones either...
Top plastic tank on our (well maintained) KH Laser split, it cost us a bomb for a replacement radiator at Natra.
2 core alloy rad in our EA Ford was clogged, fine round town but it boiled every time it towed the boat up out of Brooklyn. Rad man said they were crap, he fitted a copper/brass 3 core taxi one. GOOD move.
Son's Ford Probe had a leak in the top tank seal ring, no repair kits sold here. New rad (same as MX6) was worth a fortune, so we put some Bar's leaks in and sold the POS.
The alloy tanks on these Mini ones shouldn't crack, but how the hell do you ever clean the cores out when they corrode?

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DrMini- 1970 wasaMatic 1360, Mk1S crank, 86.6HP (ATW) =~125 @ crank, 45 Dellorto (38 chokes), RE282 sprint cam, 1.5 rockers, 11.0:1 C/R.

Can you confirm that you are referring to the ones available on ebay?

Can we see some photos?



I think you grab a new one off the shelf! At this price they are disposable/recyclable!

Cheers.

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tim
68 Deluxe 1293, HIF44, megajolt/EDIS4, daihatsu alternator..

'a mini is for life, not just for christmas!'

Yeah, funny that the Metro's came out with this type of radiator construction and they changed over the the more expensive copper ones only after less than 2 years production.



Dam good question, but then they are cheap (and nasty) enough not to bother.....

well,, after a few years of tooling around with the twin-cam mini donks running with alloy rads, & with the grunt we`re getting from the turbo one now i figured it`d be best to have a gork inside the rad, so I cut the bottom tank off one that we`d used for more than 3 years & had a look-see,,, used a sooper-dooper thin cut-off wheel in an angle grinder & open-sesame

nice & clean & all good (bar a couple of bits of soft goop),,, but i do use good quality corrosion-inhibitor so obviously that worked well ,,, so,,, i cleaned & wired brushed & cleaned again to get the alloy edges nice & shiney new,,, welded her up & sweet as a nut

the turbo Twinky moke runs 18psi of boost , LOTS of Grunt, & runs on 82deg temp everywhere

No-problemo

Oh & the tanks on mine have the sort-of Sqare-corregated look to them , they`re quite thick material,,,

the flat-pollished ones are a bit thinner but they`re not going to crack before the core does if you`re worried,,, just don`t let anything hit the cores/fins as that part of them is very thin

otherwise i`m quite happy with them & easy to clean out with a thin stainless-steel ruler shoved down each core

piece of P!$$ really don`t know what all the fuss is about actually

Most of those late model alloy rads with plastic tanks are crap tho,,, i wouldn`t touch one with a 10ft barge pole

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No offence intended here but--> anyone writing a book about minis 30 years ago may not have experienced such worn or stuffed-with components as we are finding these days.

You should put your heart & soul into everything you do.

Matt, what fan do you use with the alloy rads on your twinkies? Just the stock fan, a thermo or both?

Thanks,
Brett.

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Brett Nicholson
Greendale (near Ballan) VIC.
1971 Morris Mini Moke
1966 Austin Mini
1965 Morris Mini Traveller
1973 LR Series 3 88
2007 LR Freelander 2

Mine turned up today. I am quite pleased even with how long it took to come over from China (which the seller didn't have control over).

After inspecting it in person I am over the moon with my purchase and I can't believe I got it here for under $98. For my personal use, I wouldn't bother with one of those expensive $245 2 core ones you can buy when you can get something like this for under $100.

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"In two years time your car will be like a lady's clothes, out of date, my car will still be in fashion when I am dead" - Sir Alec speaking to Pininfarina

Sorry, I haven't an ebay one to compare it too. The owner has not long had the car and it was in it, so he dosn't know where it came from.

I must say that it was an odd failure, split in the lower tank, but it just must be the crap alloy that they used in (at least) this one.