Sidebar
To view this press release as a PDF, please click here.
September 29, 2020
Howell, MI – DeWitts Radiator, a Michigan-based aluminum radiator and core manufacturer, announced today that it has named industry veteran Mike Long as its Director of Operations. Long brings 18 years of motorsports indus...
January 10, 2020Howell, MI - DeWitts Radiator is proud to announce the achievement of ISO 9001:2015 certification at its Howell, Michigan location. ISO is one of the most rigorous and well-regarded standards in the world. The newest version of the ISO Certification is the most updated standard of...
FROM CORVETTEFORUM C5 TECH SECTION
marc a CF Senior Member
$161 Radiator Installed 04-01-2017, 05:03 PM
Bought this radiator (On Ebay) . 2 Rows/Dual cores. The tank is twice as wide as the OE version. Welds look great. The mounting tangs for fans and condenser are in the right location...
Automotive radiators use a thin foil material, rolled formed into a corrugated pattern, to transfer heat from the cooling tubes to the air. During the roll forming process small windows or louvers are stamped into the foil. The louvers are formed in a group on one half of the material and then a ...
In 2001, GM changed the transmission cooler mid model year. At this time, the connection fitting switched from the old flare tube and nut to a newer metric quick connect fitting. One way to identify which model you have is look at the retaining nut holding the cooler in the tank. The first desig...
DeWitts Radiator builds aluminum radiators and we are one of the few companies that actually own an aluminum brazing furnace. Many companies claim to make aluminum radiators when in reality they just purchase the components and assemble radiators. Some companies may not make anything at all and j...
One radiator company is now touting a “revolutionary advancement in cooling technology”. A bold statement like this deserves to be investigated...
What is this big break through? it is Extruded Cooling Tubes (ECT) and it is not that revolutionary. In fact it’s not even new, as this technology h...
Copper is actually a better conductor of heat than aluminum. The problem is a copper radiator is not ALL copper. The tubes and fin are copper however they are bonded together with lead, which has horrible heat transfer capabilities. The end tanks are brass and the side channels are steel. The tri...
Many companies offer radiators configured as a double-pass or triple-pass design and the name can be a little misleading. On the surface, a double-pass radiator sounds like the fluid goes through the radiator two times and that is not the case.
A double-pass design is nothing more than a baff...
- 1
- 2
