Brycec Posted July 4, 2022 Share Posted July 4, 2022 Hello new to the forum. I have a 1934 chevy 2 door master town sedan. That I am building. I am looking for a replacement radiator. I've seen plenty of them out there, aluminum and such, but none of them have the center fill cap. They all use under hood fill caps. I am looking to use my original hood emblem/ cap. Any ideas? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rusty_OToole Posted July 4, 2022 Share Posted July 4, 2022 Have you priced having the original recored? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Larry Schramm Posted July 4, 2022 Share Posted July 4, 2022 A good radiator shop should be able to help you. I would tell you not to expect a couple of hundred to recore it. Might be looking in the $500-$1,000 range. I just bought a core for another car and the core alone was $400.00 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bloo Posted July 5, 2022 Share Posted July 5, 2022 Direct replacements for old cars like this generally don't exist. If there are exceptions they are probably Fords. The radiators you are seeing with the cap under moved the hood are probably for street rod use with a pressurized cooling system. A pressurized cooling system requires a modern radiator neck so that the pressure cap can control what is going out (or coming in) the overflow tube. The original cap is just a cap and the original overflow is up high and always open. Most of us wind up getting a recore if we can't salvage the original core. Good luck on your search. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Brycec Posted July 5, 2022 Author Share Posted July 5, 2022 Thanks, I'm sorry I really wasn't clear, I have swapped engines and am looking for an aftermarket radiator that still uses the center cap design 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
plymouthcranbrook Posted July 5, 2022 Share Posted July 5, 2022 Now there’s something you don’t see every day. 1 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rusty_OToole Posted July 5, 2022 Share Posted July 5, 2022 I've seen a Chevy in the alfalfa but not an alfa in a Chevy. 2 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Walt G Posted July 5, 2022 Share Posted July 5, 2022 You probably are on the wrong site to ask for help on this since you have a repowered car. The people reading this restore/rebuild cars and trucks to original specification. Any advice I am guessing would have to come from someone knowledgeable about the engine you have and what you have to work with - ie the vertical radiator shell to use the original sheet metal to keep the look of the original car. All experimental and no set rules to easily follow. Go to a street rod site and ask there . Difficult to solve a problem for something that is a new creation. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Scott Bonesteel Posted July 5, 2022 Share Posted July 5, 2022 Another example of the impact of the demise of Walker Radiator. They could have fixed him right up. SMB Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bloo Posted July 5, 2022 Share Posted July 5, 2022 I don't believe it is a good idea to use a functional original neck. That Alfa was pressurized originally as was everything else from the era. The pressure raises the boil temperature significantly. A pressure cap and matching modern neck is going to be necessary to make that happen. If there is also an original neck, that will be a second neck. Removing it while under pressure is likely to get you burned. If you were going to do it, a lever release on the modern cap would allow you to release pressure first. Sooner or later though, somebody would just take the cap off on a hot day and probably get burned. Any good tig welder could add a neck to a welded type aluminum radiator. Any old fashioned radiator shop (they are getting really hard to find) could solder a neck on a brass radiator. I think it is a terrible idea, and I doubt anyone would do it because of the liability. A better approach would be to weld or solder an non-functional original type neck to the radiator to hold the original cap. 4 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rusty_OToole Posted July 5, 2022 Share Posted July 5, 2022 It seems the easiest and best answer is to use a pressurized radiator with cap and reservoir under the hood, and a dummy neck in the rad shell to hold the cap or ornament. 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ben Bruce aka First Born Posted July 5, 2022 Share Posted July 5, 2022 21 hours ago, Brycec said: Thanks, I'm sorry I really wasn't clear, I have swapped engines and am looking for an aftermarket radiator that still uses the center cap design Please don't leave us drooling! Good to see something different. Welcome. Ben 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Marty Roth Posted July 10, 2022 Share Posted July 10, 2022 On 7/5/2022 at 2:49 AM, Rusty_OToole said: I've seen a Chevy in the alfalfa but not an alfa in a Chevy. Enjoyed the alfalfa/Alfa pun - cute ! 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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