Radiator swaps, Anyone using a radiator from another make/model? Options

[dutchboy]

I did a search on ebay to see what is the cheapest aluminum radiator available. It seems an aluminum rad for a civic can be had for about $80 or so shipped.

Obviously this is a lot cheaper than a Koyo designed for our cars.

I don't think the civic radiator has as much surface area, unless it is taller than ours. I happened to see one person with a turboed 7A(i think) that had a civic rad, but there is not much, if any info on the fitment/process/results


Anyone with (or attempted) a civic/other car radiator swap? What do you think? Temperature numbers before and after?

Thanks!

[6strngs]

civic radiators, or at least the ones I've seen, are only about half as wide as our radiator... here's a pic I took off google to show what I mean:



now, could you make it work? I don't know. but my guess is that it wouldn't be able to keep the engine cool enough.

[dutchboy]

Anybody?