Startup

I finally lit a fire in the old girl.  She may not be the prettiest girl at the dance, but at least she can get her groove on now.

https://youtu.be/Xc738EfFjQY

Radiator

I decided to go with a 3 core aluminum radiator.  The aluminum radiators are almost the same dimensions as the original...almost.  So, I had to make some brackets to get around the core support area and hold the radiator tight since I couldn't use the old fan shroud even if I wanted to because of the difference in size.

My wife didn't think my zip-tie mounting brackets would work very well, but they did the job of holding the radiator in place while I secured it.

For the bottom braces I had to get around a some core support frame so I built the brace you see below.

After welding the pieces together

I coated the braces in Plasti-dip

The top brackets where much more simple.  A piece of steel bent into a 90 degree angle, drilled for a bolt hole and ground to fit and then painted.  After final fitment, I did put a slice of bicycle inner tube between the bracket and the radiator.

Then, I had to build a mounting bracket for the radiator over flow.  Here is the one that came in the car.  Now I know where Downy fabric softner got the idea for their bottle!  From a 1970 Lemans radiator overflow reservoir.

I built this bracket instead.

Then painted it black and bolted it on.  You can see the new overflow above it.  Wifey says it looks much better than the old one.  I don't know.  The old one may have held softer water.

Lastly the tranny cooling lines.  In an effort to clean out the engine bay as much as possible.  I'm going to try and route these through the fender above the wheel well.  If it doesn't work, I can always change them back.