Just been looking at the Westfield online shop and they have a high effeciency radiator, which looks to have the inlet and outlet connections at the top (ie no bottom connection).

My question is, does anyone know if you can run a polo/golf radiator in the same configeration, this would allow me to also install the oil cooler next to it in the nose cone. As the oil cooler is over 500mm long this would also be mounted vertically, with the feed and discharge nozzles at the top.

John

Didn't get any replies, so progressed anyway - purchased a Polo Radiator, which measured about 530 x 322. This mounted so the inlet and outlet ports were at the top of the radiator. Water is forced; because of an internal division plate to flow down one half of the radiator from the inlet port and then up the second half to the outlet.

Took the car for a long run over the weekend and the car runs cooler than it did with a two row Cortina rad and if parked and run for a prolonged period at idle, when the rad fan does come on it does so for very sort bursts, unlike with the cortina rad, which ran most the time when it started.

An added advantage of the current set-up whcich is off-set to one side of the nose cone is the air filter has room to sit in the nose cone also so it always draws air from the cold side of the radiator.

All gaps around the radiator were filled so all air has to go through radiator and cannot by-pass it.

For info the cooling system is cooling an RX7 engine with 170 bhp at the wheels

Regards

John

Hi johnm, sorry that your post went unanswered this is 1 section i dont visit much, your car sounds cool, put some pics of it in your pic archive so we can all see her

I recently had my mk1 escort radiatior remanufactured by Serck Marston - and they did a great job - it looks brand new. However, that combined with my oil cooler is actually over-cooling the engine - ie it can't get up to normal operating temperature, causing lots of condensation and water in the oil. Careful not to over-do the high efficiency cooling.

if the thermostat is working you can't overcool