I have the standard k series radiator in my car with the 2tg and as the picture below shows the hose doesn't have the bend to fit on. As I see it I have 2 options

 

1. find a hose with that 90 degree bend in it - any ideas on that one?

2. Get a piece of metal pipe to fit between the hose I have and another hose that is a 90 degree bend...

 

Any help on this?

Or, option 3, get the pipe on the radiator moved over to the other side, which is what I did with mine.

maybe get 2 hoses and join them in the middle :P

as you already know just did my conversion and i did what red did... get the inlet moved to the other side. only took half a day for the rad shop to do it.

as you already know just did my conversion and i did what red did... get the inlet moved to the other side. only took half a day for the rad shop to do it.

 

if you want to go down the cheaper way or get a ta22 radiator bud that might work to and it should fit aswell

Get the outlet moved as redwarf has done. Definitely the best solution - that is what has been done on my club racer.

I rang a radiator place and changing the outlet over is not much hassle.

 

My perhaps stupid question is, with both outlets on the same side of the radiator wont it make it pretty inefficient?

Out of curiousity, I wonder how a flipped AE82 Twincam hose would go. Looks like this, so just mirror-image it and cut it down to the right length

 

Edited April 22, 200917 yr by Hiro Protagonist

The coolant is still going to get pushed through the radiator by the water pump, so I can't see it being a big issue for cooling. Radiator place would know best though.

They put a little deflectory do-dah in there to direct the water flow in the direction required. I had it in with a good competition motor, and never had any issues. (It was a three core.)

Out of curiousity, I wonder how a flipped AE82 Twincam hose would go. Looks like this, so just mirror-image it and cut it down to the right length

 

 

 

it would work but i have a feeling he has been convinced on moving the outlet on the old radiator across,

 

IMHO you should have just found a ta22 radiator and used that

Edited April 22, 200917 yr by mr ae71

Yeah i have been convinced. My radiator is in good condition and I think everything will look much neater this way.

 

Thanks for the help, getting closer to the finish every day.