V8 radiator for slant 6

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Are there hoses I can get so I can use my SB radiator and just bolt it into my slant 6 Valiant?
 
Mount your radiator in the car,and get you a coat hanger and bend it to the shape you need, and go down to your neighborhood parts store and try matching it up ! Or,get yourself 2 90* elbows and point them where they should meet.Then go to a hardware store and get yourself a Chrome Sink drain pipe of the right diameter and you have yourself some bling,and a functional hose !! It worked for me !
 
Coat hanger! Good idea! I was trying to find some thing to make a mock up...coat hanger never came to mind. Now all I need is an idea on how to get some free time...
 
Or you could just get a slant radiator from a late 70's aspen. I don't do small block stuff, but I remember that some of them do have the lower hose outlet on the correct side of the car. I just don't remember if it pre-1970 or post-1970 cars. I know that the change happened with the redesign of the water pump.
 
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Or you could just get a slant radiator from a late 70's aspen. I don't do small block stuff, but I remember that some of them do have the lower hose outlet on the correct side of the car. I just don't remember if it pre-1970 or post-1970 cars. I know that the change happened with the redesign of the water pump.
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76' aspen radiator with out ac fits perfect you just have to drill two holes in the mounting brackets so you can use your four bolts and have to use a slightly longer lower rad hose I think it's either for a truck or for the same 76' aspen I don't remember.
 
If your car is 64 or earlier, the radiator opening is not 22" wide. Shouldn't matter if the radiator stands off a bit since the air can still flow to get to all the surface. You will need to drill 2 holes further out in the firewall.

70+ V-8's had a 1.75"D lower hose on the passenger side, which works for a slant, but you will need a 1.5" to 1.75" rubber adapter (ebay cheap). The 1.75"D hose might be a problem. The V-8 hose probably won't match the slant's w.p. inlet or snake behind the fan belt correctly. Pre-70 V-8's had a 1.5"D lower hose like the slant, but on the driver's side so no use to you. Also, those round-top radiator are notorious for splitting a seam anyway. As 64drtGT suggests, a 76 slant radiator would be the best fit. Just get one for an AC car and should work. A Dayco 70776 hose worked for the lower on my 64 slant w/ 70+ slant non-AC radiator (I think).
 
i have a really nice slant radiator out of my 73 duster, but im in colorado, if you want to pay shipping you can have it for 40 bucks. thats not a hole , its just wet
 

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The radiator 73AbodEE shows looks very similar to the one in my 64 Dart (non-original), except mine doesn't have the recessed fill cap, holes for the shroud, and mine has more space from the brackets to the core probably because mine may be only 1-core. I think those with the wide filler plate are intended for non-AC. They will fit a 64 if you drill 4 holes.
 
Just go buy the lower radiator hose for a 2006 Magnum with a 5.7 V8. You could probably put the radiator in the back seat with that hose.

look up an image for a Dayco 72281 on Rock Auto.

B.
 
WOW! Looks like I could upper + lower hoses outa that! Any idea where I can find the hose diameter on that to make sure it will work?
 
Either end will fit on a 1.5 inch hose nipple. I just shoved a 318 thermostat housing in both ends of one of those hoses.

It is slightly different sizes on either end, but the "big" end can be trimmed off too - it only steps up for about 1.5 inches. The "big" end will fit on a 1.625 nipple with a shove too.

Over at HAMB where 50% of the cars are swaps, and the others have no hoses available anyway that is a popular hose to cut up.

B.
 
BillGrissom said:
The radiator 73AbodEE shows looks very similar to the one in my 64 Dart (non-original), except mine doesn't have the recessed fill cap, holes for the shroud, and mine has more space from the brackets to the core probably because mine may be only 1-core. I think those with the wide filler plate are intended for non-AC. They will fit a 64 if you drill 4 holes.
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i guess i could have mentioned it is a manual trans ,non AC ,2 core
 
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