yet as of a few years ago they had a direct fit for the late B but not for the truck chassis. I would think there are more 80s D/W trucks on the roads these days than 75-78 B body cars. It gets a bit warm (not bad) if he has to sit at a traffic light for long. Even without a shroud, it has been decent, at least if he is moving. He saw what a difference that Champion radiator made with my Fury so he took a chance on it fitting and doing the same thing for him that their radiator did for me. we wound up drilling different holes in the mounting wings, and have yet to find a shroud that fits the dam thing correctly, he was looking into having a custom shroud made/ but hasn't done anything with that idea yet. He called Champion with his vehicle info, and they said the closest they had listed was for a 78-79 D/W truck/ Ramcharger. Yet when my son needed a radiator for his 89 Ramcharger, we had the opposite thing happen with Champion. I am certainly going back to a 195 stat in it when I do my next upgrade to that car which is going to be an aluminum intake and (yet to be determined) carb. and does it work? He11 yeah, almost too well. Something like $213 delivered to my door. and 3 row instead of the original single row. and I thought TIG welded 100% aluminum would at least look better than alum/ plastic ever would so I went for it. we have THIS one, that lists as a direct fit for your car. I called them and told them what I was looking at and what kind of car I had and the person said "oh no, that isn't the one you want for that car. back then sellers could openly put their phone number on EPay, but no more. I was browsing Ebay one day and found a few Champion units, the closest they had listed to my car was a 73-74 Charger, Satellite etc. No way!!!!! I wasn't putting a Japanese car-looking radiator in my car when it came originally with copper and brass. In a "stock replacement" anywhere I checked wanted to send me a Toyota-ish aluminum radiator with plastic tanks. griffin was the "big name" in aluminum radiators but as I remember they were $450+ at the time for one to fit my car. I had heard of Champion radiators among the forums I frequent and thought Id give them a try. I put one of those "flowkooler" water pumps in it along with a 180* stat which helped a little. so that takes a burden off the cooling system yet that was about when the temps started having problem staying cool. the AC had slowly dwindled in effectiveness over the years, I haven't tried the AC now in about 3 years. Back then the AC used to work too, adding more heat to the front of the car. It has the original solid 4 blade fan that it came from the factory with. When I got the car in 2007 with 38k miles on it (I am the 2nd owner) it never had problem staying cool. IDK what all they did to it while it was out of the car but each time they said "it's good now". I had taken the original radiator out and sent it into the radiator shop 2-3 times over the years and no difference. sitting has not been kind to this cooling system. It's parked at least 6 months every year. This is a car I only drive when its nice out. On my application (78 Fury 2 door HT, 318 with AC, 55k original miles- B body, same chassis as Cordoba, Monaco, Magnum etc) I had had problem keeping it cool for a couple of years.
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