So I bought a new radiator on ebay like a month ago, it was on back order but they never told me till i asked, finally came today. Now I can install it, and stop my radiator from smoking and leaking coolant, since i cracked it pulling out of my driveway

So here's a few random pics



OOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO Shiney




No, she still hasn't gotten out of the driveway again, but she's been runnin, she's comin apart for the radiator and like 5 or 6 other projects, so enjoy her for now

 

i need that radiator!!!!!!! good stuff,what headlights you running?

 

wow a month?!?! mine took 3 days from the day i ordered til it got to my door

 

How do you crack your radiator pulling out of your driveway? Do you have to drive front first off a cliff to get onto the street? I don't get it!

 

The funny thing, the first and second light pics are the same taken one after the other with dif lighting. HID's and projectors are still sitting I won't do any engine bay work till I get this koyo in, cuz she's smokin and leakin coolant

 

i was gonna get a koyo radiator...........but ill never need it so i got oem spec.....

 

Yep, that about sums it up

up a 45 degree angle, slammed like 3" in the front, and draggin frame I ripped my mudguards off dragged the frame or the rad support area, rad cracked.

They repaved my driveway, I can't get out of it now, I gotta raise my car. I quit fuckin with it all together for like a month cuz the rad got fucked up

 

were you late for work or something! how fast were you going when you backed out of your driveway? were you drunk again!? didn't you hit your garage once when you were drunk? maybe you should park on the street and avoid this driveway/garage from hell all together!!

 

one looks stock other looks like hid's,and my lemon is leaking/smoking too so don't feel bad

 

Was not drunk was sober, was not rushing, was going 5 miles an hour creeping over the hump and undercarriage just draaaaaaaaagged. Least my brother didn't hit my parked car! My car lives in a garage Was your bro drunk?

 

They do, but they're still the same sylvania 9006's that i've had forever. I miss my fogs though

 

HAHA!! No but I think he was on his way to. This what I'm worried about since I should be getting my drop done in the next few weeks (hoepfully this weekend). I have a steep driveway but nowhere near as bad a hybridnrg that's just rediculous, somewhere there's a vid of his exhaust scraping the ground as he backs out, it's horrible. Mine's not that bad but bad enough that I can scrape my back bumper if I back straight out and not at an angle. I'm just imagining you cursing like crazy as you hear your car getting ripped apart!! I'd be like FFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUCCCCCCCCCC CCCCCCCCKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKK!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! !!!!! if that was my car, I'd be so pissed!! I'd get on the ground and punch the shit out of my driveway if it did that to my car!!

 

Mine's got a worse bump than that, and it's going UPHILL Wasn't there when i moved in, they ripped up my street for 4 months, then put this giant bump where my driveway meets the road when the repaved it, after i got my car down there months b4. YAY! so now i have to replace the rad, raise the height, just to get her moving. And I'm replacing my omnis


Oh and in summer when all that tar and shit heats up, it's gettin slammed about 100 times with a sledge hammer to flatten it out

 

Yeah, his driveway is REAL Bad. Its honestly like this / and than meets the road flat. I thought I was going to scrape going in reverse which was hard to do. But yeah, thats awesome you got your radiator.

 

Only took a month

 

you doing the install yourself?

 

yessa

 

obviously, not hard at all..

 

I hope not, I got my helms, checked out where all the bolts and wires for the fans are, gotta take those off first, then should hopefully just bolt right in

Gotta go to honda parts dept and buy a bunch of coolant tomorrow

 

Have you tried making something triangular like this /_\ out of wood panels? it would help decrease the drop off angle of the driveway... just jam it into the place where driveway meet the road when you get out...

I dont have to worry about this since my driveway is not steep, but that's what i would do if i'm in your situation..

 

Um, that wouldn't work, bottom line is there's too much of a drop off, i gotta raise the front end more

 

can you post a couple pics of your drive way so we can see?

 

Sure, what you don't believe me?

 

I'd like to see a driveway with an angle like /. I want to see it so I can size it up and compare it to mine!! (pun intended but don't take it seriously!!)

 

Trust me, its pretty bad. And not only is it a slope, but at the bottom of his driveway it goes to a complete drop off into like the woods i think.

 

That's not even the problem, it's at the top, there's a foot drop off hump from the driveway to the road

 

Delivery of the koyo rad was 3 days for me, and installation was 30 min.

 

click on this link to see 97Blackack driveway.
http://www.leenks.com/gallery499-0.htm

 

goddamnit that sucks. i dont think a stock height CL could make it up that.

 

LMAO! I'd kill the mother fucker that made that. Omg, I could only imagine the shit kids would eat doing stupid shit around that.

 

Nice for you

 

Mine looks just like that, only the house is at the bottom and the road's at the top

 

@ that pic

 

im sorry chris you should do somethign about that just maybe....hehe

 

Are you serious? So your house is like sunk down like it's in a bowl? So you basically have a 1/4 pipe for your driveway? You can drop in on your driveway? That's awesome, it's every skaters dream!! You should try to sell it to Bam Margera didn't he make a skate park out of his driveway, he could've just bought your house, doesn't he live in PA!!

 

he lives on the opposite side of pa from black

 

Bam would love to destroy my house though, and the hill is perfect for skating if you put a ramp at the bottom. Otherwise, you go down a 10 foot drop off into the woods I've watched the neighbor's kids do a faceplant down into the woods after flying down the hill on a big wheel

 

Finally made some headway on her, replaced the radiator NOT EASY, pain in the ass, but it's all done. Here's what I did, replaced the stock Denso rad with Koyo aluminum rad, had to transfer fans, metal tranny lines, etc. Then, removed upper and lower rad hoses, they had to be CUT with an exacto knife, and peeled off the motor. Replaced the hoses with OEM honda/acura rad hoses and new hose clamps. Also cut and ran all new tranny lines and installed Hayden Tranny cooler while the rad was out and I had easier access to remove the plastic rad shield and run the tranny lines through, also mounted the tranny cooler to the condenser while the rad was out to simplify things. Took several hours of cutting lines, running tranny lines, etc, but she finally runs again, pumps coolant fully and doesn't smoke or leak coolant anymore

Here's a few pics of the install, so people can actually see that I'm doing stuff to my car

New rad installed, tranny cooler mounted and tranny lines run.



Close up of tranny cooler, the horns will both be replaced, they're rusty as fuck.



Close up of new hoses, yeah they suck to put on



New hoses and tranny lines, yeah we spilled some antifreeze and had to wash it off



Handy 50/50 holder for my bottle while I was filling her up, and running the heat. This was also the longest run she's had in a few months since her rad isn't leaking anymore



Another fun pic of the work we did, had to drop the plastic skid plate, and rip all the coolant lines off the motor, but she came out great, and pumps coolant and tranny fluid like a champ, yes i felt the hoses.



Next is the fuel filter replacement, and then onto all the electrical upgrades, and multiple engine mods installed in the EB, also the interior is coming ALL out

 

hey Chris, did you have to remove the fan to mount the tran cooler? (i know you put it on while the rad's out, but can you see if i need to remove the fan???)

Thanks

P.S. what kinda battery is that?

 

I bet your dying for the spring, huh?

Can't wait to see more bro.