Engine Cooling Thoughts And Radiator Recommendation

I had a great radiator in Darth, it was a standard 2 row, a Modine, with a lifetime warranty. It developed a leak after some years and I had it replaced under warranty (since I had installed it myself, but was in a time crunch, I paid the labor). A few more years, and it failed again. Now I had a dilemma, Modine was out of business and the shop that I had purchased it from, owner had a massive coronary right after his 65th birthday.

As a result. I ordered one from Rock Auto. Worst part, shop owner was a friend and a fellow Marine, we used to play who could call the other first on 10 November to say "happy birthday".

Machspeed wrote

Thank you, sir!

No problem, at the rate I am going I expect to have my ceramic coated headers back some time around April 11, that is when Debi informed me they are scheduled to be completed.  From there I have the following to purchase till I can do my install of the new engine.

1) 3/8" stainless steel fuel tank to pump hardline
2) E5TZ-89146-J reproduction fan shroud
3) Stainless steel inverted flare adapter fittings for transmission cooler @ radiator
4) 5/16" stainless steel transmission cooler lines
5) 3/8" Earls VaporGuard hose
6) 16.5 Gal 85/86 saddle tank
7) 85/86 sending unit
8) 85/86 fuel pump connector
9) Walbro 255lph in-tank fuel pump
10) fuel tank vent valve
11) vent valve seal
12) 3G alternator
13) Cold-Case Radiator

If things goes to plan and my big projects at work keeps the big money rolling in I believe I should have all this purchased by September with a hopeful plan to do my engine swap on my two week Christmas break period so I dont have to take time off work.

85lebaront2 wrote

I had a great radiator in Darth, it was a standard 2 row, a Modine, with a lifetime warranty. It developed a leak after some years and I had it replaced under warranty (since I had installed it myself, but was in a time crunch, I paid the labor). A few more years, and it failed again. Now I had a dilemma, Modine was out of business and the shop that I had purchased it from, owner had a massive coronary right after his 65th birthday.

As a result. I ordered one from Rock Auto. Worst part, shop owner was a friend and a fellow Marine, we used to play who could call the other first on 10 November to say "happy birthday".

That is always a risk one takes with a lifetime warranty is the business going under.  A good quality radiator how ever can always be repaired at cost else where if the business does go under.  That is if you are lucky enough to have a radiator repair shop in your area.  The local one that redid the copper radiator for me by putting new cores in my '56 radiator some 8/9 years ago now is no longer in business.  The owner retired and I believe the kids didnt want to take it over.  There are still some radiator shops in town but they are quite a drive from me and I never done business with them before so I don't know if they are any good or not.

Im hopeful that Cold-Case doesnt go under as they seem to be a hotrod company as they sell conversion radiators like Entropy Radiators do.  Cold-Case has a radiator for our trucks that are setup for a 5.0 Coyote swap, something Entropy doesnt have last time I checked.