{"id":141,"date":"2005-01-30T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2005-01-30T00:00:00","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"2011-04-01T16:57:45","modified_gmt":"2011-04-01T16:57:45","slug":"bel-air\/fitting-radiator","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/project55.co.uk\/?p=141","title":{"rendered":"Fitting the Radiator"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I haven&#8217;t done any work on the &#8217;55 since before Christmas, and I was keen to get back on it. The Camaro is over in Bristol sat on a ramp waiting for a new steering box, so I decided to do the radiator mounts for my shiny new PRC aluminium radiator. I got the original radiator and support down from the garage roof, stripped the horns and regulator off and pulled the radiator and filler pannels off. I put the frame on the front of the car and clamped the tabs of the radiator on ready to drill.  <\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/wp-content\/uploads\/files\/BelAir\/2005\/01\/Core_Support.jpg\" width=\"443\" height=\"374\" alt=\"Core_Support.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n<p>With it all clamped up and levelled, I drilled the holes and bolted it on. The filler panels would cover the inlet and outlet on the new radiator so I decided to fold them back to clear. It fitted but looked ugly, so I folded the edge again to make it shorter than the width of the radiator. It&#8217;s still not too pretty, but works perfectly. I think I&#8217;ll put it all together and see what it looks like before I worry too much.  <\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/wp-content\/uploads\/files\/BelAir\/2005\/01\/Core-from-Front.jpg\" width=\"443\" height=\"262\" alt=\"Core-from-Front.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I haven&#8217;t done any work on the &#8217;55 since before Christmas, and I was keen to get back on it. The Camaro is over in Bristol sat on a ramp waiting for a new steering box, so I decided to do the radiator mounts for my shiny new PRC aluminium radiator. I got the original radiator and support down from the garage roof, stripped the horns and regulator off and pulled the radiator and filler pannels off. I put the frame on the front of the car and clamped the tabs of the radiator on ready to drill.  <\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/sites\/default\/files\/BelAir\/2005\/01\/Core_Support.jpg\" width=\"443\" height=\"374\" alt=\"Core_Support.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n<p>With it all clamped up and levelled, I drilled the holes and bolted it on. The filler panels would cover the inlet and outlet on the new radiator so I decided to fold them back to clear. It fitted but looked ugly, so I folded the edge again to make it shorter than the width of the radiator. It&#8217;s still not too pretty, but works perfectly. I think I&#8217;ll put it all together and see what it looks like before I worry too much.  <\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/sites\/default\/files\/BelAir\/2005\/01\/Core-from-Front.jpg\" width=\"443\" height=\"262\" alt=\"Core-from-Front.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-141","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/project55.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/141","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/project55.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/project55.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/project55.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/project55.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=141"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/project55.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/141\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/project55.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=141"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/project55.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=141"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/project55.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=141"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}