Lets talk about ebay radiators.

[Ultimatedsm]

Hey how are you guys doing? I am going to share my personal experience with a particular radiator. I got it from JKG ULTIMATE MOTORSPORTS on ebay.

I was debating if I should get an ebay radiator considering it is a very vital part for a vehicle. I was looking at a Fluidyne unit, Koyo and than some ebay radiators. I know the Fluidynes and Koyo's are tried, tested and true and cost over $300 USD which in my opinion are worth the money. However, I was short on money and I needed something to drop my temperatures due to my front mounted intercooler (26x12x3) it is a pretty large unit and really cools down the charge.

After hours of looking around I came upon this particular radiator. The radiator is all aluminum and was polished. Very clean looking radiator and holds almost twice as much coolant. Anyway, I ended up buying it and what a difference it made.

City Driving:
Before: 214F
After Radiator: 192F

Highway Driving:
Before: 235F (yikes)
After Radiator: 203F


So far I have had it for several months and it still looks new. If you have bought a radiator share your experience. I don't like posting links to ebay so just PM if you want the link to the particular radiator I bought. By the way, I paid $199.95 USD + shipping.

 

[HighPSIRacing]

I am honestly glad that there are people out there that like me are willing to take a small risk and buy a part on ebay-save some money, test it and let people know how it works out! Glad this worked out for ya! You should definately let EVERYONE know if you have any probs!

 

[RavenX]

I'll just quote myself from the other thread.

I don't know how some of you can live with temps above 200F. With the stock radiator and a slim fan i saw temps of 175-180F on the highway and during traffic. However when i upgraded to a bigger fmic the fan wasn't producing enough cfm's to help out the stock rad so i saw temps of 200F+ during traffic but was still aruond 180F on the highway. I just replaced the stock radiator with one of those ebay radiators and a better fan which flows up to 1500cfm's. Temps are a constant 180-185F no matter what. Am sure if i installed that new fan on the oem rad i would get the same results but i wanted piece of mind considering i sometimes push 25+psi.

 

[MaNGiNa24]

Can you post a link to that ebay radiator fan of which you speak? There are a lot of em on there that claim to be around that same cfm range.

 

[RavenX]

Can you post a link to that ebay radiator fan of which you speak? There are a lot of em on there that claim to be around that same cfm range.

The fan did not come from ebay. The one i got came from here Maradyne Fans