The pipes along the side of the block are clear, but they aren't really needed except the the fact that they are part of the piping for the heater core and it seems like you really need that to help cool the damn thing down!!!! Only 98* outside so 85 feels almost cool.......lol.
I am going to put a Griffen racing radiator in it like I used to have in my Celica race car. They make a 26x19x3 double row aluminum radiator for $160.00 I will have to make the mounting hardware for it, but it is nothing I haven't done before. It is an inch taller than the stock radiator but more than twice the cooling power and...........the price is very right for me ;-).
It runs so marginally hot that I know this will fix it. I guess it never gets hot in Japan so that tiny thing up front was good enough there. Even still though, it seems that it would almost always have to be in the 50's to keep the car cool enough to have fun and drive without worry........maybe?!?!?! The car sounds too cool to give up on and there aren't any around here or there are but they all have a...BHG.....arghhhhhhh....................won't say the three words...
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Later
Russ