Hey all. I'm needing to replace my radiator. It's leaking the year after being rodded out and is some cheapo replacement with a made in mexico tag on it.

I looked around, and I want to get all-metal, as I'm in CA and it's hot - and also because I'm tough on my car sometimes. I don't want any more plastic in my car than is already there.


I found a CSF radiator at Outlaw Radiator for 180 with a lifetime warranty.

I also found a ReadyRad at some place online.. (lol) for 104$ incl. shipping. No warranty mentioned. (they call it the Proliance Intl/Ready-Aire 433267 Radiator)

I have a separate transmission oil cooler - I was thinking I could just buy a manual trans radiator because it doesn't need the A/T connections anyway.

Does anyone have experience with either of these? I'm not ready to shell out gobs of money on a nissens or anything, especially since they don't make an all-metal anymore. There were a lot of new-looking plastic/alu rads at pick and pull when I was there last. I'd need to check the interchange, but I might go with that if they look clean enough. That yard never has any volvo newer than a 90 and mostly has 85-88 740s and 240's. If anyone knows of one that would fit, let me know. Keep in mind that I want to do an E-fan conversion.

Thanks to anyone who answers
-Will
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1990 740 Turbo, on its way to stock specs, maybe beyond