Aluminum VS Stock Radiators Is It Worth it? Differences Between Capacity &“SAE” “MM” Core Sizes

hey guys welcome back today's episode we're gonna be looking over the differences of an aluminum core radiator versus a stock plastic tank regulator so recently a questions been brought up is what is better on aluminum radiator or a stock radiator now we have that an illuminator which I'm replacing in my vehicle right now because there's a small leak at the corner of the core where it connects to the the lower tank and so we're gonna put the stock back in but overall as far as the selling point I purchased a woman right here because I wanted better cooling and it was 3/4 the two core stock but because of the added core does that mean that the capacity is more can and can hold more cool so what we're gonna do is we're going to top off the upper and lower ports on both units we're gonna fill them with water we're gonna measure the difference and the capacity of both radiators and see is it really worth it to spend the extra money on the on the aluminum radiator versus reliability with the stock okay so the first test we're gonna do is we're gonna need to plug off the upper and lower radiator fourths here I've done so that way we can retain the water we're gonna fill bolt radiators up with with water and then we're gonna measure the capacity of each one and then that's going to tell us the difference between the two and the three core for the aluminum one you can see that there's three notches one two you can see back in there there's a third one so you have three core and then this one is a two core but notice that the cores are so lightly whiter mouth let's stop right there and think about this for a minute and the older days the copper and brass radiators this was true more rows meant more surface area in the contact with the fan with defending consequently a higher heat rejection so a three row was better than a two row and so on so when aluminum Raiders came around the rules changed cooling engineers concluded that by lowering the Fen height you could stack more layers of tubes in addition using wider tubes would increase the tube defend contact area the end result was a very high-performance radiator with the huge savings in weight the u.s. standard for performance aluminum radiator tubes is one inch wide too and import radiators have smaller sixteen millimeter or 0.62 tubes in this case a three row aluminum radiator would only have a total of 1.8 six inches of tube defend contact surface which is less than the two row core with one-inch tubes the online ads for these three row aluminum radiators will indicate several features of the radiator design but they avoid the issue of the tube with some other some other manufacturers they go at an extra step in building their radiators and offer two road cores with Internet quarter tubes or two-and-a-half inch tubes to fend contact and this would again exceed the performance of a four row imported core design so if you're researching your next purchase ask about tube with because that is the breaking point between the stock core radiator as you can see two inch wide and the after bar key which is one point eight eight six inches wide and width okay so let's go ahead and fill these up and we'll get back to you [Music] doesn't take much to fill these up they both look for as you can see at the top and to the top okay so we have empty pot and go ahead and do the first one which is the stock radiator I'm going to go ahead and dump the coolant you can see that it is topped off and we are going to dump all the remaining water into the pot and then measure the water that's in the [Music] [Music] okay so here we have a measuring cup goes up to four liters and the water from the stock radiator is in the pot so we're going to pour the water from just pot into the measuring cup and we're measuring about two and a half liters for the stock okay so now we're going to pour the aluminum radiator [Music] let's shake this radiator just to make sure all the coolant comes out okay so the water in here we're gonna make a small mark and this is going to be the stock radiator and that's the that's the height on stock now we're gonna dump this out and put in the aluminum okay so here's the truth we're gonna go ahead and pour this in so a measuring cup [Music] all right so there is more coolant is it worth spending the extra money for the three core or buying the stock two core when you only get about a half a liter more less than a whole quart of coolant and the aluminum versus the stock radiator the capacity on the aluminum raider versus the stock two core radiator three core to core we have about half of a liter difference about just under a quart difference the question is is it worth spending the extra money finding the aluminum radiator versus the stock radiator and my opinion at the end of the day I would still go with the stock because it is known to be a good unit the elastic long time they do have the plastic tanks compared to the aluminum tanks but like I said earlier in the video the aluminum core radiator leaked just under two years and and so what we're gonna do is now that I have bolt the Raiders out we're going to go ahead and put the stock back in the vehicle and in my opinion to conclude this video as the stock is the better way to go it's not worth the extra money to go with the aluminum unless you're in it for the looks as far as physical and capabilities hey half a liter more you know like I said is it worth it let me know in the description in the comments below if you guys have any questions or are any comments liked this video and it helps you out in deciding if you're gonna purchase a stock or an aftermarket radiator what's what's the difference between the two and is it worth it thank you guys for watching have a nice day

Channel: ATEM OFFROAD

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Id: 2dPgH5SEY68

Length: 9min 35sec (575 seconds)

Published: Mon Aug 19 2019