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Is anyone involved in the group buy planning to attending Griffin and picking up their new rad? I would like to try and avoid the UPS brokerage fee otherwise known as "the shaft".
Is anyone involved in the group buy planning to attending Griffin and picking up their new rad? I would like to try and avoid the UPS brokerage fee otherwise known as "the shaft".
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Here it is! The all aluminum Griffin radiator next to the crappy plastic stock unit. The stock radiator weights 10lbs, while the Griffin rad weights 7lbs. A direct bolt in unit, with all the correct mounts and brackets.
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Aluminum end tank, beautifully heliarc welded. Aluminum fittings. No brass or other dissimilar metals that can cause a dialectric failure. If you look close to the point where the tubes meet the end tank, you will see the red epoxy reinforcing process that is unique to Griffin. The cooling tubes are welded to the end tank, then as an added measure epoxy is injected.
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The left side of the radiator with the thermal fan switch installed. This is one of the tweaks that Griffin is going to make, moving the fan switch up 1/4" to give more clearance for the fan shroud. Note the small upper most nipple. On the stock radiator, this is the plastic one that some have broken off while working in the area. This won't happen on the Griffin rad. Above the small nipple, the U shaped bracket is where the rubber mounting grommet sits. These isolate the radiator from the electric chassis ground. Again to prevent diaelectric failure. I gave the Porsche part numbers for the rubber mounts, in a prior post. The lower grommets are a two day special order. The upper grommets come from Germany, two weeks (Hint, order now).
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Jon,
Griffin will take your group buy orders this Wednesday 5/11. This is after the tweeks to make the next run of radiators perfect, go back to engineering.
I will post the order information around 9am PST Wednesday. Each order will be handled as a individual order. Another words, first come first served. Griffin currently has orders for a thousand (1,000) radiators. So your radiators will take around 3 weeks to pump out.
I in the mean time, will be driving with a slightly less than perfect "Prototype". Nothing a Dremel grinder could not handle. With "driving" being the key word here!
Griffin will take your group buy orders this Wednesday 5/11. This is after the tweeks to make the next run of radiators perfect, go back to engineering.
I will post the order information around 9am PST Wednesday. Each order will be handled as a individual order. Another words, first come first served. Griffin currently has orders for a thousand (1,000) radiators. So your radiators will take around 3 weeks to pump out.
I in the mean time, will be driving with a slightly less than perfect "Prototype". Nothing a Dremel grinder could not handle. With "driving" being the key word here!
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Double whammy.....my water pump also failed! So off with the old and on with the new. You should be able to install the radiator without removing all this stuff though.
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Yes, I have the ultra rare Guards Red edition.
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While the radiator is out of the car, make sure you spend some time cleaning out the fins of the A/C condensor that sits in front of the radiator. Use an air nosel and blow from the engine compartment side to eject crud from the 1" thick condensor. I spent an hour and a half picking and blowing out small stones, bird feathers and leaves. I bet this crud restricted air flow by at least 10%.
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And this is what an hour and a half will get you.....about a golf ball sized pile of crud.
And not your garden variety crud mind you.....Pizza Run Crud!
And not your garden variety crud mind you.....Pizza Run Crud!
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And last but not least....The Griffin radiator nestled in its new home, peeking back out at me. The Snap On ratchet sits on the set screw, that pinches the rubber mounting grommet to the cross member.
My 951 is happy again.
My 951 is happy again.