quattro Digest, Vol 127, Issue 3

[cody at 5000tq.com]

Thanks for the offer! I've found several OE style in both all copper  
and aluminum w/ plastic tanks of various quality and price. My actual  
intention was to take this as an opportunity to upgrade to something  
with additional cooling capacity since this is my 500hp 5ktq that I'm  
preparing to put an even larger turbo on.

Contrary to most, I have no qualms about running plastic tank rads;  
the one that I broke was at least ten years old and was 100% my fault  
that it got broken otherwise I have no doubt that it would have  
continued to serve well for years to come.

The one I was looking at for the 200tq20v is here:
http://r.ebay.com/QaNZFw

It's Chinese but looks fairly decent and there's lots of good feedback  
on them. However, I've since found that one of my wholesalers has OE  
Behr plastic/aluminum units on clearance for a lot less, even less  
than WorldPac has a "Metrix" brand that I've never heard of. I never  
had even slight cooling issues before so I'm going to go OE and put  
the savings towards some of the other bits needed to do the turbo.


-Cody


Quoting Paul <pristle at ihug.co.nz>:

>
> RE: aluminum radiator
>
> Cody,
>
> I have a brand new 'all copper' radiator sitting on the shelf. It  
> was bought from somewhere in the States who described as a 5ktq  
> unit, the shipped to New Zealand a few years ago for a 200tq project  
> that was abandoned. It looked identical (just newer) than the part  
> that came out.
>
> If I recall about US$160 was paid for it. I could always ship it backl ;)
>
>
> Paul
>
>
>
>
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