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Old Feb 11, 2006 | 11:14 PM
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Awhile back there were some pictures of some trash that our cars pick-up, around the radiator area. Did a search and can't find it again..nor can I find where to look on the car.. ha ha Got the car Friday and have been cleaning since.... This is a big job to do it right. Hope I am.. Will post pictures when I get it clean...
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Old Feb 12, 2006 | 04:06 AM
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Awhile back there were some pictures of some trash that our cars pick-up, around the radiator area. Did a search and can't find it again..nor can I find where to look on the car.. ha ha Got the car Friday and have been cleaning since.... This is a big job to do it right. Hope I am.. Will post pictures when I get it clean...
here's the link to the thread you referred to:
http://forums.corvetteforum.com/show...5&forum_id=103


Why fight it? I installed one of these from Elite Engineering and mine is always clean.
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Old Feb 12, 2006 | 04:23 AM
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you may want to pull the radiator shroud and clean from the top down as well....amazing how much crap is packed in there
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Old Feb 12, 2006 | 07:56 AM
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conway what year car do you have?I put screen on my car so trash does not get sucked in against the radiator you can get them at mid america motor works.If you just look under the front of the car you will see the radiator before you put the screen on vacumn the radiator first to get all the junk off of the radiator then install the screen.
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Thanks... It's an 04 and after I saw the pic I figured where to look. ha ha little slow here.. Air filter was pretty clean, very suprising after seeing how dirty the engine was. Oh well just more fun cleaning. Thanks for the quick reply.. Will have more questions later....
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I blow my radiator(s) out after EACH track weekend or every two days of use.

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