30-05-2019, 08:08 PM
I think you are talking £600 plus for a period-style core now.
The modern cores work fine of course but tend to have slightly less capacity, which might affect how quickly you overheat on a steep climb. You can get thicker and thinner modern cores so it may be worth asking around.
I'm not sure that 4mm recess is going to give you any problem, it's the tanks that 'position' the rad, surely? Though if it were mine I'd fit some closed cell foam strip around the inside of the shell to seal the gap, leakage here can have a big impact on cooling.
The stone guard is going to set you back a bit too! But won't make any difference to the fit I think; though it will to some extent conceal what's behind.
Some firms sell roughly 1/4" thick 'dummy' cores in period patterns, you can slip this in front of a modern rad to make it look right. Hardly any point if you are fitting a stone guard too though.
The modern cores work fine of course but tend to have slightly less capacity, which might affect how quickly you overheat on a steep climb. You can get thicker and thinner modern cores so it may be worth asking around.
I'm not sure that 4mm recess is going to give you any problem, it's the tanks that 'position' the rad, surely? Though if it were mine I'd fit some closed cell foam strip around the inside of the shell to seal the gap, leakage here can have a big impact on cooling.
The stone guard is going to set you back a bit too! But won't make any difference to the fit I think; though it will to some extent conceal what's behind.
Some firms sell roughly 1/4" thick 'dummy' cores in period patterns, you can slip this in front of a modern rad to make it look right. Hardly any point if you are fitting a stone guard too though.