Best USA made radiator, Who makes them??

If a guy was not concerned about cost, and just wanted a trouble free radiator to be able to just hop in and drive anywhere, whos would you buy, and I honestly want as close to a factory looking radiator as possible. None of these welded together aluminum radiators with a chinesium core....

Kasey

Glen-Ray would be the place.

What are you trying to cool?Do you have original brass tanks? It's hard to beat the efficiency of an aluminum core with a copper brass core. Copper brass is considerably more expensive now. I would take a good quality copper brass if originality and exact fit is a concern too.

Been in the radiator business for 35 years and my advice it that if you have good solid original tanks, take it to a radiator shop and have them recore it with a QUALITY high efficiency core with 5/8 tubes on a 3/8 center and around 14 fins per inch if you are not pushing the horsepower limits.

Reason I say quality is that just like everything else, there are good and bad core mfgs out there too. And the good ones are becoming fewer and fewer due to everyone wanting cheap.

Unfortunately, there is no good, or even bad radiator shops around me anymore Ill doo some research....

If you want an original looking type Radiator, Auto City Classics in Minnesota has what you are looking for. I have no clue if they are made in America though. I've bought two radiators from them, and have no issues. The one in my Road Runner was powder coated, and painted, and looks fairly stock.

https://www.autocityclassic.com/radiators/

So are you OK with an aluminum or no? Aluminum will always be the most efficient due to the way the fins are attached to the tubes.

I have looked at those Glenn Ray radiators before. $1400 seems like a lot but for me to recore a BB B body radiator with a high efficiency core like I described above would be close to 1100 I bet. The original Big Block B Body radiators were 3 Rows of 5/8 tubes on 9/16 centers. That core had around an 80 percent thermal efficiency. If you have that core made on 3/8 tube centers, you get 23 more tubes per row, which means you almost have as many tubes as the original if it was a 4 row, and the thermal efficiency goes over 90 percent. Its the most efficient factory sized radiator you can make IMO.

Don't waste your time with any 1/2" tube radiator core or anything that has a tube center over 9/16"......

They work fine for grandmas valiant with a slant 6 in it, but not for anything performance minded.

Wizard Cooling for the best!

https://wizardcooling.com/

https://www.prcracing.com/

Used my dimensions, put heat exchanger in the tank I wanted and welded side mounts, also put lower hose bung at the angle I requested

Im looking at a few and I cant see any with 9/16, or 5/8, I found one on summits site with 1/2" tube sizes,

I just got off the phone with Glen-Ray, Im sending them my 053 22" radiator, and hes doing the max cool core in it. I figured for a grand, I can buy "the best" of the best aluminum radiator, but still have the look I dont want, I wont have the correct number on the radiator, and I still could have a heating issues since I cant find an aluminum radiator built like the Glen-Ray core is. I plan on really driving this thing anywhere, so Im just gonna get a good one.

Want the nest C&R racing radiators. Can make you anything you want.

Glen-Ray is an excellent choice. He's done 2 radiators for me over the years, true craftsmanship.

Very happy w/ my Griffin radiator. Not cheap though.

I had a custom aluminum rad made to resemble the stock radiator for my stock looking (sort of) theme. Came with shroud and dual electric fans. Bolts in stock core support bolt holes. Keeps my high horsepower 528" Hemi cooler on the street than any of my closer to stock street cars run at temp wise. Added -20 inlet and outlets with a -6 to the over flow.