1968 – 1977 Skylark Aluminum LSX Conversion Radiator With Dual Fans And Aluminum Shroud

Name: 1968 – 1977 Skylark Aluminum LSX Conversion Radiator With Dual Fans And Aluminum Shroud
Brand: Entropyrad
SKU: RAD-9161-LSX-3
Price: 1480.0 USD
Availability: InStock

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Swapping a LSX motor into your 1968 – 1977 Chevelle can be a major project. Hunting down the right parts and then hoping they will all play nice together can be frustrating project of epic proportion.

For example, will my LSX swap headers fit in with the LSX motor mounts I want to use? Will the A/C compressor hit the frame? Will the billet serpentine accessory drive system clear the frame and work with the aftermarket air conditioning system? How I interface the speedometer to work with the electronic speedo output on a modern PCM controller transmission?

That’s enough to drive any sane man deep into the liquor bin to try and salvage their sanity of swapping a LSX motor into your car. When it comes to the radiator, we’ve done he heavy lifting for you. You won’t have to guess if our radiator will work with all of your favorite LSX accesories.

We’ve gone through the pain of figuring it out for you so you can literally open the box and drop our radiator right into your car. Slam, bam, thank you mam.

That includes making sure the radiator will fit with things like billet accessory drives in the most common configurations that work well in the 1968 – 1977 Chevelle.

Our LSX radiator is a double-pass configuration with both hose connections on the passenger side. This is a two-pronged benefit for your LSX swap project. First, it looks clean without the top radiator hose running all over your engine compartment.

And the second benefit is because it’s a double-pass configuration, it provides an additional 20% cooling capacity over a single pass radiator. Considering LSX radiators are much more efficient than a conventional small block engine, this gives you killer cooling up to 700 horsepower and beyond without having to a core with larger tubes.

Built specifically for the Nova, our swap radiator will drop right into the factory mounts and use the OEM top clamp to keep your new radiator in place. No cutting of your classic Nova required.

This radiator has the correct size hose connections for a LSX motor and has the correct steam vent port for LSX swaps.

If you’ve been reading about your LSX swap and are thinking or tapping the water pump to run the steam vent back into it: DON’T DO IT! You will be shooting yourself in the foot. With a bazooka. One of the best features of the LSX motor is the steam vent system, which is one of the features that allow LSX motors to run high compression or boost on pump gas. Disabling it is a disgrace of the sacred.

For the upper hose, the upper hose from a 1995 Mitsubishi Eclipse turbo all wheel drive is almost a perfect fit (depending on your motor mounts).

Overall dimensions are 33″ wide x 19″ high x 7-1/8″ deep.

Features:

– 2-rows of 1″ cooling tubes

– dual 12″ HP fans for a total 3000 CFM

– precision TIG welded construction

– Lifetime warranty

– billet CNC machined filler neck

– heavy duty plate transmission cooler

– stainless steel hardware

100% Satisfaction and cooling guarantee. We guarantee you’ll think our products are sexy and will cool your engine up to our stated horsepower cooling capacity.

For fan control, use our RH-02 Wiring Harness made specifically to duplicate the Corvette C5 two-speed fan functionality.

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SKU: RAD-9161-LSX-3

Category: 1968 - 1977 Skylark/GS Buick Radiators

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In they early days of LSX swaps, you had to be Rambo and trail blaze every aspect of your LSX swap. Maybe the motor mounts didn’t position the motor with enough clearance for your headers to clear the frame. Then when moved the engine backwards for the headers to clear, the A/C compressor crashes into the frame rail.

Fortunately with the popularity of LSX swaps, that is no longer the case. Especially when it comes to the radiator setup for your swap. Back when we started building LSX swap radiators in 2004, it was the wild wild west of LSX swaps.

We’ve taken the bullets for you so you don’t need to. Regardless if you’re running a 5.3L truck engine or a 6.2L LSA supercharged crate engine, our radiator will fit, clear the accessory drive and do a killer job of keeping your engine cool.

For the upper hose, the upper hose from a 1995 Mitsubishi Eclipse turbo AWD is almost a perfect fit.

For the lower hose, the lower hose from a 1999 Silverado 5.3L is close and will require trimming to work.

This radiator has the correct size hose connections for a LSX motor and has the correct steam vent port for LSX swaps.

If you’ve been reading about your LSX swap and are thinking or tapping the water pump to run the steam vent back into it: DON’T DO IT! You will be shooting yourself in the foot. With a bazooka.

One of the best features of the LSX motor is the steam vent system, which is one of the features that allow LSX motors to run high compression or boost on pump gas. Disabling it is a disgrace of the sacred.