Radiators and the L Series .

discopotato03 · Post by **discopotato03** » Mon Aug 13, 2007 11:18 am

Hi all , have been looking into this situation and as always I'd like a bit more than the std rads cooling capacity .
In std form the 86 RXT has a 345mm wide core where the Vortexes are 370 , the std L core thickness is 16mm . There doesn't appear to be a heavy duty option however one of the Impreza cores is the same dimensions but 32mm thick and two rows of tubes instead of one .
Just to make like difficult Subaru fitted a wide tank on the near side and a narrow one on the off side of the rad .

Out of time more later .

Gannon · Post by **Gannon** » Mon Aug 13, 2007 5:27 pm

Look for an L series Auto Turbo Radiator, apparently they are dual core (32mm wide). Im gonna be looking for one of these soon cos the weather is heating up.

discopotato03 · Post by **discopotato03** » Mon Aug 13, 2007 6:33 pm

Thanks for that , any idea who made the original turbo auto one ie Calsonic ?
Anyway not a biggie , my radiator mob can make up from scratch an offside tank and use the 345mm wide Impreza core and a std nearside end tank .

A brand new turbo auto 32mm thick core would be easier if they are still available .

Cheers A .

AndrewT · Post by **AndrewT** » Mon Aug 13, 2007 9:54 pm

Get a custom radiator made up by your local radiator joint.
Liberty dual core + either Holden Gemini or Toyota Tarago brass end tanks.
Give them your rooted standard L series radiator so they can use the frame.

These work a treat, heaps and heaps of people in Australia have had them made to use in EJ conversions.
Should be about 400 bucks. Will significantly out-perform ANY off-the-shelf L series radiator.

Matatak · Post by **Matatak** » Mon Aug 13, 2007 9:56 pm

AndrewT wrote:Get a custom radiator made up by your local radiator joint.
Liberty dual core + either Holden Gemini or Toyota Tarago brass end tanks.
Give them your rooted standard L series radiator so they can use the frame.

These work a treat, heaps and heaps of people in Australia have had them made to use in EJ conversions.
Should be about 400 bucks.

Liberty dual core like outta the one i got here?

steptoe · Post by **steptoe** » Mon Aug 13, 2007 9:59 pm

sorry to suggest your excitement is short lived. I rushed out into the cold to measure mine up and check its two rows. Bugger, only single row, musta been tight budget somewhere in the past, yet factory manuals state the 85,86 turbos got the 16mm - i guess that's the single core. It may be a specific year turbo auto that got twin core. Thomas Lturbo ?

AlpineRaven · Post by **AlpineRaven** » Mon Aug 13, 2007 10:00 pm

AndrewT wrote:Get a custom radiator made up by your local radiator joint.
Liberty dual core + either Holden Gemini or Toyota Tarago brass end tanks.
Give them your rooted standard L series radiator so they can use the frame.

These work a treat, heaps and heaps of people in Australia have had them made to use in EJ conversions.
Should be about 400 bucks. Will significantly out-perform ANY off-the-shelf L series radiator.

What year Tarago? As I have 1995 model rad here.
Cheers
AP

AlpineRaven · Post by **AlpineRaven** » Mon Aug 13, 2007 10:06 pm

AndrewT wrote:Get a custom radiator made up by your local radiator joint.
Liberty dual core + either Holden Gemini or Toyota Tarago brass end tanks.
Give them your rooted standard L series radiator so they can use the frame.

These work a treat, heaps and heaps of people in Australia have had them made to use in EJ conversions.
Should be about 400 bucks. Will significantly out-perform ANY off-the-shelf L series radiator.

What year Tarago? As I have 1995 model rad here.
Cheers
AP

AndrewT · Post by **AndrewT** » Mon Aug 13, 2007 11:51 pm

Sorry not sure about that, I just hear Tarago from somebody along time ago. My local radiator guy spent about 5 minutes looking in his book of end tanks and rekoned Gemini tanks might work better so he used those. Again not sure on specific model cause I wanted everything brand new at the time.

Matatak not sure, I guess if its a Lib dual core then probly.

Matatak · Post by **Matatak** » Mon Aug 13, 2007 11:57 pm

cool might have to chekc it out
i thught they were to big neway
or are Lseries bigger rads in the first place

pretty sure my MY one is dual core in the first place so i might not need to change nethign there just outlets or new tanks

AndrewT · Post by **AndrewT** » Tue Aug 14, 2007 12:47 am

Lib ones are slightly bigger yeah, they cut them down to fit in an L series frame.
MY's have enough room at the front to fit Triple core - Subarino is running a custom radiator with one of those cores. Don't have any more details than that myself tho.

D3V1L · Post by **D3V1L** » Tue Aug 14, 2007 1:41 am

matatack...look at subarinos tripple core rad...its a work of art...not to; mention it works a charm...

dave

timmo · Post by **timmo** » Tue Aug 14, 2007 5:16 pm

My two wrecks were both Turbo A/T '85 & '86 had standard L core. got custom alluminium rad now, 29mm core from holden vectra.

timmo

Matatak · Post by **Matatak** » Tue Aug 14, 2007 7:26 pm

yer ive seen subarinos its pretty kool if ya got the money

might upgrade later on but for now ill jsut go for upgraded outlets

also need to find some money to buy a clutch for my conversion (started slipping after Sat night and will eb pretty much finished this weekend i imagine)

steptoe · Post by **steptoe** » Wed Aug 15, 2007 8:57 am

timmo- do you know what model vectra ? by chance

timmo · Post by **timmo** » Wed Aug 15, 2007 4:54 pm

no idea! The bloke who made it looked up core sizes and just found that that was about the size I was after. He then welded up alluminium tanks to suit and fitted the standard L series frame to it

timmo

Subafury · Post by **Subafury** » Thu Aug 16, 2007 7:27 pm

Matatak wrote:yer ive seen subarinos its pretty kool if ya got the money

might upgrade later on but for now ill jsut go for upgraded outlets

also need to find some money to buy a clutch for my conversion (started slipping after Sat night and will eb pretty much finished this weekend i imagine)

im guessing alex has told u where to go for a new clutch for tha conversion. if not get onto him for beefy goodness.

Matatak · Post by **Matatak** » Thu Aug 16, 2007 10:23 pm

nope must be time to hit him up for some info

steptoe · Post by **steptoe** » Fri Aug 17, 2007 12:14 am

while talking radiators, i found my auto MY sedan radiator is about 50mm more between tanks than Brumby radiator. more trivia is that MY and L mounts on the bottom are vice versa between MY and L. And with a few hammer taps an L radiator dimensionally fits an MY, not as tall and bottom mounts need attention, as do bolts at top.