1952-59 Ford radiator

putting a 302/c4 in my 54 mainline. wanting to know what radiators you guys made work/fit right in? also how did you run your ****** cooler lines?

 

I just went through this last year. Check out the link below. I also had a C4 and ran 1/8 pipe / 6AN fittings and braided lines from the radiator to the ******. They make a special fitting for the C4 trans to 6AN as well.

https://www.jalopyjournal.com/forum/posts/12482478/

 

thanks man lots of help!

 

I'm running a Champion aluminum 2-row radiator (model EC340) for a 67-69 Mustang, along with a Flexalite electric fan; works like a charm. All I did to mount mine was cut some 2" sheet steel and use that to connect the mounting flanges on the radiator to the stock radiator support.

IMG_20141002_174732 by EchoOfGecko posted Sep 13, 2018 at 10:46 AM

 

Your choice of radiators when doing this swap depends on what your original engine was,if it was a Six cylinder car the front splash pan is different this allowed the radiator to be mounted more forward in Echo of Gecko's case he is also using the early "short" water pump and balancer this will gain another 3" of clearance and the lower hose is on the p***enger side 1970 and later "long" pumps have a drivers side lower hose.

 

'54 Shoebox you need to checkout this link the part numbers for the 302 mounts are there and these can be swapped side to side one way moves the 302 closer to the firewall which is what you will want. Are you planning a rear end change or staying with stock? https://www.jalopyjournal.com/forum/media/albums/289-302-351w-swap-mounts.41498/ Be sure to read the Comments section there.

 

I used a Walker radiator that is designed for the 52-54 Fords and used a steel bladed 17" mechanical fan and this past weekend I put it to the test, we sat in bumper to bumper traffic in Atlanta, Georgia and crept along from a dead stop to a crawl for about 8 miles and it was hotter that a 4 balled tom cat, the car never got hotter than 210 and that was for over a hour & a half.

I was the only on that overheated ( aggravated ) not the car.

The transmission cooler in the radiator is there but I have a T-5 so I don't use it. HRP