Tuesday, February 03, 2004

I made a simple lower radiator supporting bracket from an aluminum square tube and a strip of aluminum. In the first picture if you look closely at the bottom of the radiator you will see a screw next to one of the clamps. This screw goes into the square tube (there is another screw on the otherside that is hard to see). Then the aluminum strip is placed under the square tube, extends past the car frame and is bent up at a 90 degree angle. This is currently being held on with the c-clamps. The eventual plan is: The strip will be rivited to the square tube under the radiator. Then the 90 degree tabs on the edges will get rivited to the frame. The factory five design requires the aluminum piece that fills the void in front of the radiator to the body to be screwed into the body for lower radiator support. With this bracket I made, I won't have to drill holes in the body, and the aluminum piece can just fill the void and make things look pretty.

I also cut the upper radiator hose and temporarily mocked it up on the radiator.



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