JJ427R
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Recently did some cooling upgrades on my 2010 Roush 427r. Was having issues with automatic tranny overheating while doing track days. I contacted Kenny Brown Performance regarding this and also Fluidyne regarding their Kenny Brown Fluidyne Triple Flow Triple Pass Radiator (only available thru KB) as well As Triple Flow Heat Exchanger w/Dual Fans. I wanted to make sure this would all fit in my car without doing major modification and was told by both vendors it would. It also states on the KB website it will fit in Roush SC equipped vehicles.
Got into the project and installed radiator, went to install heat exchanger with dual fans is when we ran into issues. Fans were not even close to clearing, by at least 5 inches. Contacted KB and they seemed surprised and were little help, and Rich Cottrell actually told me I would not have had any issues with it if I'd had their mechanic do the install.
At this point I should have had my mechanic pull it all and send it back to KB we decided to proceed. We ended up having to cut 5 inches out of my front fascia to get it to fit.
Shortly after went to Road America to run with Northwoods Shelby club, in 3 laps I was up to 230 degrees on engine temp and 210 on tranny. So much for the upgrades working.
I then contacted Ryan Williams At Fluidyne and was told I may not have a large enough water pump to push a triple pass system and may need to go back to single pass. WHAT THE F###.
I explained I contacted both them and KB before this to make sire it would work and was never told anything about this. Asked it they would replace the radiator at their cost and received no response....
I highly recommend avoiding both of these vendors.
P.S. the reason I run an automatic on the track is I drive with hand controls.
Forgot to mention also added a Performance Automatic Pan and trans cooler is a Mishimoto with a fan.
Got into the project and installed radiator, went to install heat exchanger with dual fans is when we ran into issues. Fans were not even close to clearing, by at least 5 inches. Contacted KB and they seemed surprised and were little help, and Rich Cottrell actually told me I would not have had any issues with it if I'd had their mechanic do the install.
At this point I should have had my mechanic pull it all and send it back to KB we decided to proceed. We ended up having to cut 5 inches out of my front fascia to get it to fit.
Shortly after went to Road America to run with Northwoods Shelby club, in 3 laps I was up to 230 degrees on engine temp and 210 on tranny. So much for the upgrades working.
I then contacted Ryan Williams At Fluidyne and was told I may not have a large enough water pump to push a triple pass system and may need to go back to single pass. WHAT THE F###.
I explained I contacted both them and KB before this to make sire it would work and was never told anything about this. Asked it they would replace the radiator at their cost and received no response....
I highly recommend avoiding both of these vendors.
P.S. the reason I run an automatic on the track is I drive with hand controls.
Forgot to mention also added a Performance Automatic Pan and trans cooler is a Mishimoto with a fan.
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