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PostPosted: Wed Jan 08, 2014 7:51 pm 
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OK WIX, I see the most random questions ever answered here...so I finally have some:

I'm looking to find the btu rating of a radiator for a D model and later P-51 Mustang (If they are different by models). They are set up to have two sections, and divided into a 2/3 vs 1/3 configuration from the factory. Has anybody got this information in a manual or some other source?

For that matter, does anybody know shops that do recores or maybe custom recores for them?

Thanks in advance for any information ya'll have got...


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RandolphB wrote:
OK WIX, I see the most random questions ever answered here...so I finally have some:

I'm looking to find the btu rating of a radiator for a D model and later P-51 Mustang (If they are different by models). They are set up to have two sections, and divided into a 2/3 vs 1/3 configuration from the factory. Has anybody got this information in a manual or some other source?

For that matter, does anybody know shops that do recores or maybe custom recores for them?

Thanks in advance for any information ya'll have got...

Do a search Pete Law and P-51 Reno Racers. Might get you something.
Ratio wasn't exactly the 2/3 to 1/3. There are a few different manufactures of the Radiators used, Harrison, United and today Martin makes them.

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I actually had just finished reading a report he had written some years ago that includes info on a number of Racers. It gives data on how many btu's are needed to cool certain engines, and that lead me to wondering what the stock set-up was rated at. Sometimes things like this are engineered to have a certain amount of headspace or "extra" capacity built into them....was wondering if that were true on this part.


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I actually had just finished reading a report he had written some years ago that includes info on a number of Racers. It gives data on how many btu's are needed to cool certain engines, and that lead me to wondering what the stock set-up was rated at. Sometimes things like this are engineered to have a certain amount of headspace or "extra" capacity built into them....was wondering if that were true on this part.

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