Any one bought 944 radiator from eBay?

Any one bought 944 radiator from eBay?

Author
Discussion

supersport

Original Poster:

4,266 posts

234 months

Saturday 17th September 2016
quotequote all
Has anyone picked up one of these (http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/Aluminum-radiator-for-PORSCHE-944-2-5L-2-7L-Manual-1985-1991-/121690611358?fits=Car+Make%3APorsche%7CModel%3A944&hash=item1c55535e9e:g:YSgAAOSwPcVVkEhL)

My concern is that they seem correct other than being 100mm thick which is ginormous and almost twice the thickness of the original item.

Richair

1,021 posts

204 months

Monday 19th September 2016
quotequote all
I looked at these for my 951 and the general consensus is the fitment is poor so you'll spend a while arsing around to fit it, when there's nothing wrong with the OEM rad. I bought a new NRF rad (just a Porsche rad with the part number ground off, literally) from Mister Auto in France. They seem to be the cheapest around and it was delivered within 5 working days. That would be my recommendation.

BIG GT2

348 posts

152 months

Wednesday 21st September 2016
quotequote all
supersport said:
Has anyone picked up one of these (http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/Aluminum-radiator-for-PORSCHE-944-2-5L-2-7L-Manual-1985-1991-/121690611358?fits=Car+Make%3APorsche%7CModel%3A944&hash=item1c55535e9e:g:YSgAAOSwPcVVkEhL)

My concern is that they seem correct other than being 100mm thick which is ginormous and almost twice the thickness of the original item.
a customer of ours bought 1 for his race car. they do take some faffing around with to make it fit. they havent got a 100mm core thats to the end of where the hose goes on at a guess from memory
sure they was 40/45mm ish core.
a plastic ended one is fine for road use

regards mark