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ive been trying to research these and not much information comes up at all. Any one have anything to say about them? Mine stock ones aren't leaking or anything but I'm re spraying my bumper and figured since I'll have it off or a few days I might as well replace them since they a direct swap.
I track my car and am an oem supporter. I just did mine over the winter and 3 OEM replacements should be a tick over 1k. I saw the csf had good reviews but decided oem on these.
I'm using all 3. How could you not? A little more than OEM but will hold a touch more fluid and are all aluminum construction and no crappy plastic end tanks. Fitment is perfect too.
agree, from all i can glean about them, the end tank fitting is the only reason to spend for them unless the car is a dedicated track car. otherwise oem is sufficient.
When a rogue auto-x cone took out my drivers side lower neck I was going to go with CSF but I needed something same day for an event the following day so I paid full fare at a dealer (which was the same price as the CSF). 2 weeks after doing the driver's side the passenger side started to seep so I went AKG on that side from Pelican since the unit form the dealer had AKG markings all over it. The one from pelican is 1/2 the price of the CSF for an OEM part.
I like the construction of the CSF but for double the price vs OEM its a tough call.
Bonus picture of the moment the cone claimed a brittle 14 year old radiator neck.
When a rogue auto-x cone took out my drivers side lower neck I was going to go with CSF but I needed something same day for an event the following day so I paid full fare at a dealer (which was the same price as the CSF). 2 weeks after doing the driver's side the passenger side started to seep so I went AKG on that side from Pelican since the unit form the dealer had AKG markings all over it. The one from pelican is 1/2 the price of the CSF for an OEM part.
I like the construction of the CSF but for double the price vs OEM its a tough call.
Bonus picture of the moment the cone claimed a brittle 14 year old radiator neck.
I just had my driver side radiator go on me. I replaced it with a csf because I'm a sucker for shiny **** with pretty welds...just being honest.
With that, I plan on replacing the other two shortly as well, I got stuck in a tough spot where I wasn't expecting this job to come up and couldn't spring for all 3 without the wife killing me.
Anyone see any downside to me running just one csf at the moment?
I just had my driver side radiator go on me. I replaced it with a csf because I'm a sucker for shiny **** with pretty welds...just being honest.
With that, I plan on replacing the other two shortly as well, I got stuck in a tough spot where I wasn't expecting this job to come up and couldn't spring for all 3 without the wife killing me.
Anyone see any downside to me running just one csf at the moment?
No, but if the other two radiators are gunked-up, it may migrate to the new one.
I had 14 years of street and track use on my OEMs when I replaced them all. None were leaking but core fins were plugged up with junk so their efficiency had slowly degraded. Replaced with new OEMs two years ago an again no issues since. Install whatever gives you the warm and fuzzy.
Still running the original OEM units on the 996 Turbo (88K miles). Replaced the original 928 S4 Behr radiator with a CSF unit because of the "common" leaking plastic end-tank problem. The CSF unit is high quality.
06-01-2017, 09:15 PM
Csf radiators?
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