Cooling Pro Radiators

RaYmO · Postby **RaYmO** » Sun Oct 10, 2010 9:21 pm

My radiator has gone kaput... need a new one and the ASI looks like the way to go...

I can only find the 52mm online right now (boo!)

marcusus · Postby **marcusus** » Mon Oct 11, 2010 8:35 pm

RaYmO wrote:My radiator has gone kaput... need a new one and the ASI looks like the way to go...

I can only find the 52mm online right now (boo!)

Yeah same. I got an email from them saying that they're on holiday in China now, which is presumably where all the listings get made. The guy gave me an email address to use instead to put an order in, which I'm gonna email shortly. Shoot me a PM and I'll give you the email addy as well.

zephyrus17 · Postby **zephyrus17** » Tue Oct 19, 2010 2:15 pm

For those of you with a NA6, how did the Cooling Pro install? Were you the ones that needed the extra length bolt? (Most of your posts didn't list your car type). The radiator on mine is the 52mm one. Would getting a 42mm radiator offer better cooling? (Less surface area, yes, but large velocity of flow throw the grills)

mitch_f1 · Postby **mitch_f1** » Wed Oct 20, 2010 6:10 pm

has anyone bought ASI since they stopped listing on ebay?

marcusus · Postby **marcusus** » Thu Oct 21, 2010 1:01 am

mitch_f1 wrote:has anyone bought ASI since they stopped listing on ebay?

Yep. Just send the seller a message asking for what you want. They got me to just buy another MX-5 radiator and they said they'd send me the 42mm one. They took the price down to match the original price listing as well. The item is still yet to arrive, but it should be here later this week.

rossint · Postby **rossint** » Thu Oct 21, 2010 2:27 am

zephyrus17 wrote:For those of you with a NA6, how did the Cooling Pro install? Were you the ones that needed the extra length bolt? (Most of your posts didn't list your car type). The radiator on mine is the 52mm one. Would getting a 42mm radiator offer better cooling? (Less surface area, yes, but large velocity of flow throw the grills)

I put a 42mm cooling pro in my naturally aspirated NA6, I needed the longer bolts due to the extra thickness of the radiator but the install was very smooth apart from that. I've had my car on the track in 45deg heat and the radiator had no problems keeping the car cool. I'm not sure about the cooling differences between a 52mm and a 42mm but you'll be carrying around less water in a 42mm radiator so less weight.

mitch_f1 · Postby **mitch_f1** » Thu Oct 21, 2010 7:36 pm

http://cgi.ebay.com.au/ws/eBayISAPI.dll ... 3D1&_rdc=1

ASI radiators are back up and running

marcusus · Postby **marcusus** » Tue Oct 26, 2010 1:15 am

My ASI 42mm radiator arrived today, and I fitted it at Okibi's place this evening.

Fitment was pretty good. Everything pretty much lined up off the block. The only tricky parts was getting the bottom right of the radiator (where the bottom hose is) to fit in against the other smaller hoses that live in that area. Just needed a bit of a nudge to move the hoses slightly, and it went it pretty well. Everything else lined up pretty much spot on. There wasn't a problem with my Signature sway bar, nor my custom CAI. I reckon if I'd gone the 52mm I might be struggling for space/fitment, so I'm glad I stuck with the 42mm.

As for temperature, I had the car idling for a good 15-20 minutes after everything was all reattached and the fans still hadn't turned on. This means either I've brokenthe fans somehow, or the radiator works quite well. I'll do a fan test a bit later and confirm they do still work, but for the moment I'll stick with the fact that the radiator works quite well.

As an extra note, filling the radiator takes maybe 6 or so litres of fluid. The 5 litre bottle I bought went in with room to spare.

Postby **Okibi** » Tue Oct 26, 2010 2:26 am

zephyrus17 · Postby **zephyrus17** » Wed Oct 27, 2010 6:13 pm

rossint wrote:
zephyrus17 wrote:For those of you with a NA6, how did the Cooling Pro install? Were you the ones that needed the extra length bolt? (Most of your posts didn't list your car type). The radiator on mine is the 52mm one. Would getting a 42mm radiator offer better cooling? (Less surface area, yes, but large velocity of flow throw the grills)

I put a 42mm cooling pro in my naturally aspirated NA6, I needed the longer bolts due to the extra thickness of the radiator but the install was very smooth apart from that. I've had my car on the track in 45deg heat and the radiator had no problems keeping the car cool. I'm not sure about the cooling differences between a 52mm and a 42mm but you'll be carrying around less water in a 42mm radiator so less weight.

What size and length? Do you remember? I'd like to buy the bolt before my i strip the radiator out of my DD

deviant · Postby **deviant** » Wed Nov 24, 2010 11:39 am

Another update on my cooling pro radiator. I spent the weekend stripping the air con out of my NA8 turbo and without the AC heat exchanger the radiator slipped straight in. The bolt holes still took a little levering to get lines up properly but the lower pins sit in the right spot now. A 10 minute job to fit.

Only problem I have now is that the turbo kit on my car must have been designed for a car with AC as the intercooler and oil cooler all sort of hung off the heat exchanger. It all just hangs off one flimsy looking tab on the intercooler and the piping now. hmmm.