good afternoon I am looking for pictures and any other info on the installation of a three-core champion radiator on a stock 83 camaro z/28 with 305 automatic also what hose to use upper and lower. will stock hoses fit?


thanks Ralph

 

Make sure you install powerful cooling fans with that radiator, or you'll have problems...

 

How thick are the Cores?

Is this a Single-Pass Radiator?

 

I dont have pics, but it is pretty straightforward with minimal changes. Same hoses, but I couldn't get my stock plastic radiator top bracket and shroud to work so I made one out of steel.

Eventually I discovered the Champion didnt cool any better and went back to a stock radiator. Turns out cooling your engine has much more to do with volume of air flow over radiator than volume of liquid in the system or number of tubes inside.

 

I agree. I'm running a single row Griffin radiator with 1-1/2 inch tubes. Bigger tubes are supposed to improve cooling.
I have only a single electric cooling fan from a L-69 Camaro.
Even the 5th & 6th gen Camaros have single-row radiators...

 

This can actually get rather complex...
But it more so comes down to the amount of surface-area that the Water contacts, and that the Air outside contacts.

The water volume is waaaaay less of a factor.

 

here is the link to radiator that i purchase with specs

1982-1983-1984-1985-1986-1987-1988-1989-1990-1991-1992-Chevrolet-Camaro (championcooling.com)

 

Stock hoses will work. Mine is a 2 core. I had to hack up the rubber isolation bumpers a LOT to get it to fit with the factory top mount. Also had to put a washer on the bottom bolts for the factory dual fans to gain clearance for the fans to radiator core.