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Godzilla34

By Godzilla34,
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Hey guys just thought I would post up a little story about what happened to my skyline r34. So I had my dodgy Korean mechanic change my timing belt etc than 3 days later a piece of the fan couling broke off and hit the fan therefore damaging my radiator = no good.

So I replaces the radiator after pulling all the plastic out and took it for a drive and whatdo you know I split another radiator without any plastic etc.

I took it to the mechanic and he said my water pump was damaged so I replaced that and installed an aluminum radiator been fine for about 1 month . Than I did a track day last week at Wakefield . Noticed some fins on radiator were bent. So i did my own research and decided to remove the r34 gtt plastic fan and install a gtr 33 fan because they have a lesser pitch at 6000rpm. Now I haven't had a problem. Just a story and a solution for anyone out there who had or has the same problem as this.

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