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A bit of a pictorial wrap up of the first round of the Nulon Nationals at SMSP. Held on a wet skid pan, it's a Motorsport event that pits 9 forum based car clubs against each other in club level Motor

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And here is some in car footage of the day, showing the wheel work required for such tight courses! Sorry for my fat melon being all over the pics

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Stagea's paint looks bloody good Alex. Nice to see some more pics from the Stagea meet. Scrolled down for more, only to be greeted with the red crusty that fouls up this thread

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Few boxes arrived today!

One rad to replace a leaky one for the Whale, and another for me. A Nismo thermostat, and the motordyne 5/16 plenum spacer.

I'll chuck the rad and thermostat in when I get the next chance, but I'm not going to fit the plenum spacer until I go for my next tune, in case it leans it out too much. Better safe than sorry. Next to the AFM!

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Put the number plate in the bottom of the bar Craig - looks horrendous there!

lolz........the plate won't stay there....I had to put it somewhere for the trial fit and thats where the holes were from the previous owner!

.......sorry Alex!......I'll stop again now!

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So, installed my radiator yesterday. It wasn't "drop in" but it was pretty close. I did modify a couple of little things for future ease. The Nismo thermostat was a bit of a pain. Hard to get that gasket in place, and find the bolt holes. Anyway, its in, and not leaking.

Strapped up the laptop for the trip to work yesterday. Thermostat opens at about 75 degrees, from there temp dropped to 73. once I started warming it up a bit, normal cruising temps were from about 77-82 degrees. If I was at lights, that went up to 88 or so, but soon dropped back down. I got stuck in traffic, and temp went up to the normal 98 where the fans cut in, and I saw a noticeable increase in speed for the temp to drop back down to 93 and fans switch off. So, its a win. No leaks, this morning I topped up the system, and made sure the last of the air was out. I'll check again in a few days time that its fully bled.

Overall its a drop of about 10 to 12 degrees. Normal Cruising temps were just over 90 generally, and at lights you could expect it to go up to 95 to 98. I did have to pick up some barbs from pirtek for the AT cooler lines, and replace one hose that was too short to reach the new inlet. Barbs were cheap, and I sealed them with tape and locktite.

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Why is the Mishimoto better? Look at the core size! It also has much wider fins if you know what I mean, which should let more air into the engine bay to cool things.

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Nice work....your temps look to be about the same as mine on cruise.....however at the lights I'm lucky if I see 88. If I start getting up it I get to about 82-84.

It's a good rad aye!!!

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Yeah, but you got your fans set to 86 or something don't you?

My stockies kick in @ 98!

It is nice. I had to take preventative measures to make sure that the condensor wasn't touching/rubbing, and one locating pin was about 3cm out of line. Dr Dremmel saw to that!

unfortunatly no moar powers in a radiator :(

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No more powers but a track day won't see you overheating. Even my old mitsi Chinese copy rad held a perfect 80-82 at Wakefield!

We are do a Wakefield day btw....nationals iin November for CSS! I'll be there wings and all!

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Nice work Alex, the car just keeps getting better!

No more powers but a track day won't see you overheating. Even my old mitsi Chinese copy rad held a perfect 80-82 at Wakefield!

We are do a Wakefield day btw....nationals iin November for CSS! I'll be there wings and all!

It's gonna look sweeeeeet!

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Just a quick note to say that Uprev have now cracked the Cooling fan codes, and I am now able to determine the temp that the thermos come on. They must have heard I changed my radiator.

I love these guys....

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Question is - what temp do I set it at? I was thinking high 80s maybe early 90s. Stock is 100 degrees.

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