Hey, europeans, you totaly forgot Lada heatercore, It rocks check it out: http://www2.arnes.si/~mlivak/new/Radiator1.jpg
Full copper brass combo, I soldered copper shroud on it. I got it for 4$ (all cores cost that), all others I saw were aluminium or to dense fins, but this one is realy great, but I also like that Opel Ascona heatercore.

far out
 

well the only problem is finding a scrapyard with a lada. In Sweden, Norway, Finland, Great Britain, France etc they are quite rare since the cars very the worst cars ever built. Though the heatercore seems nice. Opel on the other hand is more common. Though if you live in east Germany (ex DDR), Poland, Estonia, Russia etc it might be much easier to find them.

I've got one of those Lada heatercores, they are nice indeed....but too big for my projects.....and friggin' heavy :(

I'll take the Diablo then

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The heatercore looks very nice and shiny, indeed. though the only bad thing exept the probs. finding one seems to be that airflow will have a hardtime going through it, is my guess correct or i'm I on dope? :-)

Not realy most other heatercores have much denser fins, here is no problem with air flow. But it is a little big, but for better performance you have to sacrifice a little space :D

Morph, can U give us dimensions of the core and Lada model/year?

thx!

Dimensions 26*18*6 cm . Hmm what model, what year, I realy wouldn't know that, I just went to scrap yard and they have all the cores removed from cars on one big pile, I saw this one, I was only told it was from Lada, but I din't ask more question, cos' I was happy with what I found

good enough for me...

thx!

I just stop by some car dump today and find those Opel Heater cores, wow, they looked great Corsas was a a litle smaller (square shaped) then Kaddet, but they din't have any from Ascona but I think Kaddets was exactly the same, the only thing they were 19cm wide, which is just 1cm wider than my case accept, also found some Volvo heater core, it was made the same way as those Opel ones, so this one would be good too, but again 19cm, probably will fit in most cases but my big tower is a little narrower, But I'll get Antec case which will accept those cores easily. So I'll pick one tomorrow clean it and then compare it to Ladas core.

big momma = heatercore pre 1990 opel kadett
 

just checked the original radiator from an opel kadett from 1988. so just wanted to let y'all know that the rumour is true, it is the one and only big momma.

A computer magazine here just released an article how to build the wc rig... heatercore is from Toyota supra, copper one...

Here's a link to g.l.amour's findings! (UK).