SC400 w/ Supra TT Aluminum Radiator - PICS
06-06-08, 04:35 PM
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SC400 w/ Supra TT Aluminum Radiator - PICS
Thanks to XxSC400xX for his thread about the SC400 and the Supra TT Radiator.
I chose a Mishimoto radiator on some recommendations from before. It was a great bang for buck. $205 shipped from ebay.
I followed mostly everything in there. The bicycle inner tube worked great, its like $4 from Walmart if you guys ever do it.
I did mount it differently. He made booster mounts out of an old bushing. I found out that it WOULD work, but honestly... My radiator fins broke off into my eyes and I was having a hard time working on the car considering I couldn't open 1 eye at all. So easiest was best right now.
I learned that you can take the stock rubber mount and flip it upside down. Thats it. The radiator is now the correct height for the stock for the top metal mounting hardware.
Another thing I did was adapt the SC300 radiator (thanks to CCC-TT). Only problem with this is the SC400 uses a coolant level switch, where the SC300 does NOT. There was no easy way to mount the SC400 switch in the SC300 reservoir.
I wound up finding a horizontal float switch that worked PERFECT. I soldered it onto the stock connector, voila.
After a night and early morning of the work the car was fully flushed and ready to roll.
BTW - My radiator was SO FAR GONE that if you took your finger across the fins... it would turn to powder. Thats how it ended up in my eyes.
Some dirty pics....
Any questions, please post!
I chose a Mishimoto radiator on some recommendations from before. It was a great bang for buck. $205 shipped from ebay.
I followed mostly everything in there. The bicycle inner tube worked great, its like $4 from Walmart if you guys ever do it.
I did mount it differently. He made booster mounts out of an old bushing. I found out that it WOULD work, but honestly... My radiator fins broke off into my eyes and I was having a hard time working on the car considering I couldn't open 1 eye at all. So easiest was best right now.
I learned that you can take the stock rubber mount and flip it upside down. Thats it. The radiator is now the correct height for the stock for the top metal mounting hardware.
Another thing I did was adapt the SC300 radiator (thanks to CCC-TT). Only problem with this is the SC400 uses a coolant level switch, where the SC300 does NOT. There was no easy way to mount the SC400 switch in the SC300 reservoir.
I wound up finding a horizontal float switch that worked PERFECT. I soldered it onto the stock connector, voila.
After a night and early morning of the work the car was fully flushed and ready to roll.
BTW - My radiator was SO FAR GONE that if you took your finger across the fins... it would turn to powder. Thats how it ended up in my eyes.
Some dirty pics....
Any questions, please post!
Last edited by RedPhoenix; 06-06-08 at 04:38 PM.
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Nice write up, just picked up a Mishimotor for my sc300 as well. Mishimoto is a very good radiator for the price, I've had one on my Integra for a while now with no problems what so ever.
