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1960 3500 GT radiator restoration

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  1. 3500 GT

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    #1 3500 GT, Jul 18, 2021
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    Image Unavailable, Please Login Image Unavailable, Please Login Image Unavailable, Please Login Image Unavailable, Please Login Image Unavailable, Please Login Image Unavailable, Please Login Image Unavailable, Please Login Image Unavailable, Please Login Image Unavailable, Please Login Image Unavailable, Please Login The radiator in my 3500 GT was recored in the 70’s and was buggered in a slight shunt. So I decided to take it apart and “refresh” it.

    Just showing some photos of my progress...the original fabrication is “crude” by today’s standards. But I’m saving the original tanks, and replacing the core with an more efficient “Italian core” that will look original, but flow more efficiently and look original and Italian...

    More photos of it completed will follow.

    Just thought I’d share with rhe community..
     
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    #3 3500 GT, Aug 24, 2021
    I ordering a new core soon. My original core was missing, does anyone know how many “cooling fins per inch” were on the original cores? I’m guessing 10.

    Can someone help?
     
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    #4 3500 GT, Aug 26, 2021
    Anybody???
     
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    #5 thecarnut, Aug 26, 2021
    I counted 12 fins per inch

    Ivan
     
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    #6 3500 GT, Aug 26, 2021
    Thank you Ivan,

    I very much appreciate you taking the time to help.

    Ordering the core today, custom built in Canada!
     
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    #7 AM101, Aug 26, 2021
    Hi,
    Just checked my core, if you count as you would tpi my comes out at 11. So very much in the same ballpark.
    Regards,
    Mark
     
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    #8 thecarnut, Aug 26, 2021
    Please share the name of the company you are getting the custom radiator core build. I may need to have one built for a Khamsin.

    Ivan
     
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    #9 3500 GT, Aug 26, 2021
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    Ivan and Mark,

    I’ll ask my builder if he’ll share that info.

    He lets me do my own straightening and metal work, then he “sweats” the core and tanks etc, with Sliver, then I finish the rest...
     
  10. boralogist

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    #10 boralogist, Aug 27, 2021
    Talk to them.
    Not cheap but well worth it.

    https://www.fluidyne.com/collections/radiators
     
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    #12 boralogist, Aug 27, 2021
    Not sure either way---nor do I care;)
    All I can attest to is that their radiators are genuine game changers:)
    Just my 1 1/2 cents.
     
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    #13 boralogist, Aug 27, 2021
    PS---
    For anybody who might be interested---for the K or the Bora order something rated for, at the very least, 500 bhp!
     
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    #14 thecarnut, Aug 27, 2021
    Were they able to re core a Khamsin radiator to your satisfaction? My radiator shop can't find a manufacturer that makes a core with the number of tubes and fins they believe that car needs. Perhaps these guys have another source.
    I know there are companies that will custom make a core .... at a price.

    Ivan
     
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    #15 boralogist, Aug 28, 2021
    All I can say is that they built me a custom Bora radiator w/the exact dimensions of the original which slotted right in!
     
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    #16 3500 GT, Sep 25, 2021
    Image Unavailable, Please Login Image Unavailable, Please Login Image Unavailable, Please Login Image Unavailable, Please Login Image Unavailable, Please Login Image Unavailable, Please Login Image Unavailable, Please Login Image Unavailable, Please Login After many hours of “tap..tap..tap” and sweating silver solder, and a custom built, high flow 12 fin core. It’s near completion.

    I had to fabricate new lower radiator frame mounts as they were too corroded to save.

    Next is slight finish work and new paint, the finish now is fresh out of the acid tank…hence the “raw metal” appearance.
     

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