Champion Radiator.

Wow. If you paid anything close to $500 you got HOSED. You can get the CC374 (26" 3 core) on eBay for $206 shipped to your door.

As for that fan set up, any amount of money is too much for that. Especially given that you can get the Contour dual fan set up for a little over $100. Yes, I paid a lot more than that for my Dakota Digital controller and getting the whole thing wired up the way I wanted it, but it can be set up for a lot less than that if you don't want all the programmable bells and whistles, it should work off a simple electronic sender with a pre-set "on" temperature.

As far as the quality of the Champion radiators, it's pretty well documented on here already. I think everyone that has installed them has drilled their own mounting holes. I don't think there are any exceptions to that. I've only seen a few that were returned due to other quality issues, but in almost all of those cases Champion provided a new radiator no questions asked. The only issues folks had with returning them was the retailers they bought them from.