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Hi,
I'm usually on the C2 boards, but I'm hoping one of you guys can help me here.
I just bought a rolling 1963 C2 chassis for my car, and it came with a few extra parts. The radiator pictured is one of them. I assumed it was a C3 OEM piece, date code 69 C, but when I checked the part number (If it is a part number) 315091, it came up empty. Also the overflow return doesn't look like an original.
Pics attached. I appreciate any ideas; Thanks!
It might be an over the counter factory replacement.
Or actually from a 69 they used a very similar radiator .
There is a supporting vender who makes restoration radiators and can probably answer your question.
Thanks for the thoughts guys, and for the pics rvzio. Your part number 3155516 is the one that I found listed for a 1969 small block standard trans radiator. My part number is incorrect, the part number and date stamp location orientation is incorrect, and the overflow return neck is incorrect, yet it appears to be an aluminum Harrison correct tank-less design and stamped kinda like an original. Funny that they went far enough to duplicate the complicated stacked Harrison tankless design and date code it, and then blow it on the part number, return, and stamp placement. Could I have stumbled upon the worlds most poorly thought out Corvette production part?
rvzio, I think you're spot on with the restamp. I think what it is, is a 1962 radiator PN 3150916. It looks like somebody cut the metal return line, ground off, or filled the 6 in the part number, and then restamped for a March 1969 car. Too funny. I wonder if it passed judging??
The supporting vendor who makes
restoration radiators and
direct fit radiators.
Last time I mentioned his name the post was removed.
You will have to search for the name yourself.
rvzio, I think you're spot on with the restamp. I think what it is, is a 1962 radiator PN 3150916. It looks like somebody cut the metal return line, ground off, or filled the 6 in the part number, and then restamped for a March 1969 car. Too funny. I wonder if it passed judging??
You avatar shows a nice 63. Wish I had my 65 fuelie still from the glory days.
RVZIO
Thanks MCM, got it. I think I know who you're talking about.
rvzio - Thanks! I've owned the car for 40 years, from the glory years, to my current fat bald years. I got it looking pretty good, but the frame is shot, hence the new used chassis for a body off transplant this summer. '65 fuelie is a rare car. Gone, but never forgotten. That's a great car to have owned.
Thanks MCM, got it. I think I know who you're talking about.
rvzio - Thanks! I've owned the car for 40 years, from the glory years, to my current fat bald years. I got it looking pretty good, but the frame is shot, hence the new used chassis for a body off transplant this summer. '65 fuelie is a rare car. Gone, but never forgotten. That's a great car to have owned.
It was a fun car to have back then and I paid $3,200. Who new! [I] will try to get a C2 again some day.
RVIO
rvzio, I think you're spot on with the restamp. I think what it is, is a 1962 radiator PN 3150916. It looks like somebody cut the metal return line, ground off, or filled the 6 in the part number, and then restamped for a March 1969 car. Too funny. I wonder if it passed judging??
look close in the photo and it looks as if you can actually still make out the filled in 6
Last edited by augiedoggy; 06-16-2016 at 05:39 PM.
That's a 61-62 GM replacement radiator manufactured in March of 1969. It has the upper tube cut off. The last digit of the stamping should be a 6--the stamping is defective. The upper neck is a stamped neck which GM used from 1963 on and which they used on service 61-62 radiators for years. The originals were cast necks. GM sold these into the 1980's over the counter. The upper and lower mounts are 61-62 type. 63-up had a different upper mount.
There is nothing reproduction at all with what you have. It will leak when you pressure test it. The scrap value for aluminum is the value of what you have.
Last edited by 62corvette; 06-17-2016 at 11:05 AM.
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62Corvette; great information, thank you. Coincidently, I grew up in Muskego. Go Warriors!
You seem pretty sure about it being a leaker? Kind of a shame, it looks to be in pretty good shape.
MCM, looks like you had the right call, from the get go, as a service replacement a piece.
You can check by plugging the inlet and outlet and pressurizing the small outlet with low pressure from a compressor. The radiators generally rot out from the inside when exposed to air for a while.
We are nears Woods Rd and Durham. On Mystic.
06-15-2016, 04:29 PM
Is This an OEM Harrison Radiator??
