Having read all the posts to get help on fitting an Escort rad to my Pinto I was talking to a very experienced motor engineer who offered the following advice.
Top hose to thermostat ,small outlet blanked off.
Bottom hose to water pump,outlet to manifold.
Pressure cap on radiator
Overflow pipe from radiator neck to bottle on bottom rail, with small amount of coolant covering end of overflow pipe which finishes near bottom of bottle.
This sounds very simple, has anyone else used this system and does it work OK?

Regards

David

It's never overheated yet. Only drawback is you have to remove the nosecone to top up. put a small breather hole in the top of your expansion bottle if it's airtight as it swells when the hot water goes in and sucks flat and splits when it draws back. My original suffered this fate and the new one is a wash liquid bottle with the pipe pushed through the drilled lid.

[Edited on 14/9/04 by Peteff]