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Old Jun 18, 2003 | 10:31 AM
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Has anyone installed dual 11" Spals on a griffin radiator in a 73?What about clearance on upper control arms :confused:
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Old Jun 18, 2003 | 11:04 AM
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Monty, red73, and myself use Becool radiators with auto tranny. @ $570 in the Summit Racing Cat.

Monty has a 600+ TT427 ci small block. He uses spall twin 11 inch without any problems.

I use twin 12 inch that have nearly twice the amp draw. I have heard of twin 13.5 inch

Someone once did a BTU test on aluminum radiators and the BeCool came out on top of Griffin. The BeCool has larger 1 inch cross flow tubes. They are both beautiful radiators.
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Old Jun 18, 2003 | 11:12 AM
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I have the spal duals on a be-cool radiator. Yes, it is very close to the A-arms, but does clear. BTW, all my temp problems went away with the spals. Before it would slowly heat up in traffic with AC on on a 100F day. When it reached 230F I would turn the AC off and it would cool off some.

Now with the spals it goes to 195F where the fans kick in and it drops back to 180F. :cool:
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Old Jun 18, 2003 | 11:25 AM
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I have the duel spals on my dewitts rad. I love them. They clear by about an inch.

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Old Jun 18, 2003 | 05:56 PM
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I too have twin spals, work great very little noise and with the BeCool radiator is tough to beat. You can spend less, but I did not want to chance hurting my motor with something of lower quality. Go with the BeCool and twin Spals and you will - BeCool!!!!!
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