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Old 05-30-2012, 12:57 PM
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Racing Beat needs a 09-11 RX-8 for testing

Well its actually Koyo

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Hey everyone, we are working with Koyo Radiators and they are in need of a Mazda 2 and 2009-11 RX-8 to test fit new aluminum radiators. If anyone is located in the Southern California region and interested to lend their vehicle out to Koyo, please contact us.
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maybe they will want to expand their data collection and send one up to CT for testing, I mean I am all for it to help them out
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are they gonna have another one juuust for s2????
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Why is everything relating rotary far away from me?!?!?!?!?
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Why is everything relating rotary far away from me?!?!?!?!?
what he said
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The KOYO radiator was fitted in my R3 on Saturday. The quality and workmanship is remarkable.
There was a very minor elongating of one of the fan shroud assembly mounting holes, (1/32") necessary to line up the mounting point on the Radiator. Aside from the minor shroud adjustment and the extremely tight fit
of the radiator itself, the install went well and without a hitch.
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Nice, hope to see some pics of the install!
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not bad, question is what is the difference in cooling capacity to oem
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jtspells I'm resizing the pictures to a more web friendly size and will post them.


Paimon.soror we did not measure how much coolant drained out, however we did
installed a little less than 2 gallons, to be exact, 7.6 quarts.
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Large decrease in coolant temp?

Nice pics BTW
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I will install a gauge to track the temp.
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Any update on this?
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