Liked the last pic especially.................BFH-at-the-ready!!!
Glad jew didn't burn your face off too!
6s6

Glad to hear you didn’t get hurt.

I have a 289 configured radiator (pass in/pass out) with a stock 5.0L water pump configuration (driver out).

This is what I am using and this the vendor I purchased from as well.
Hope this will help.
Some radiator hoses are made longer than needed and can be trimmed for length.

The ‘70 hose won’t work with your radiator?

Last edited by Nos681 (12/27/2020 10:25 AM)

I got blasted in the chest from hot coolant when the cap came off as I was leaning over top of it.  Still have the scar on my chest from it.  

On a side note I'm stuck between performing this mod before I may need or just got with the stock fitting radiator and hope my 418 with AC will stay cool.

years ago our pastor was on a road trip, noticed the car was getting hot. pulled over at a convenience store, opened the hood of the car and the top radiator hose blew up in his face. his wife ran in the store grabbed  a bag of ice and put it on his face. he was hospitalized for a few days. no long term effects, no scares.

MS wrote:

I do not understand why a hose for the 70 Mustang or 74 Maverick would not fit it correctly, other than you used an aftermarket radiator, maybe? How far from the car centerline is the lower hose positioned? Your radiator looks exactly like my Griffin (except no electric fans on mine). The 70 lower hose fits perfect. I do not follow as to what you trimmed?

Even the original spec hoses for original 24” radiator had to have the length trimmed a little on both ends in order to fit, but they always fit perfect once trimmed to fit.

I went through 3 different molded lower radiator hoses and ended up back at the flex hose.  As you know, the radiator is actually supposed to be offset about an inch from center line of the car b/c of the battery.  Visually, this puts the radiator cap on the center line.  Since I have the battery relocated to the rear and I didn't want to hole cut out to end up asymmetrical I opted to center the radiator.  In theory, this puts the lower driver side outlet 1/2 inch off where it should be but I don't think that should make enough of a difference.  IDK, I'm done messing with it at this point. 

I've put +150 miles on it since the upgrade with no problems.  If anything, it is hovering around 170 degrees while going down the highway which is a bit cool but it was 50 degrees outside most of the past week so I suspect that had more to do with it than anything.  In traffic and at idle, temperature was topping out at 195 on the gauge w/ the fans going on and off exactly how it was supposed to work so I'm pleased.

I'm done w/ the under the hood stuff for probably the next 18 months.  I'm shopping a rack and pinion manual conversion kit to address my wonky anxiety inducing steering for 2021.  2022 will be the entire entire 9 inch rear upgrade....  After that, the plan is to upgrade to a more aggressive CAM swap, rocker rollers, and a custom tune.  I'll have to pull the radiator at that point and I'll revisit the hose issue.