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Camaro Research Group Discussion => Originality => Topic started by: Dave69x33 on July 15, 2010, 03:53:06 PM

Title: Quality of Repro Harrison Radiators?
Post by: Dave69x33 on July 15, 2010, 03:53:06 PM

Has anyone recently purchased a repro Harrison Radiator from Heart Beat City? 

Yesterday I received a radiator for my '69Z and I am disappointed in the quality of the "Harrison" named stamped in the side tank.  The rest of the radiator and side tank "CB" ID stamping looks fine.  It appears there was a problem with the press die stamp in the smaller Harrison letters.  The letters in "Harrison" are not legible with the letters filled in, and look more like letter bumps.

I will be making a follow-up call to Heart Bear City in the next day or so.

Thanks,

Dave 

Title: Re: Quality of Repro Harrison Radiators?
Post by: Dave69x33 on July 16, 2010, 01:26:43 AM

Attached is a picture of the "Harrison" script that I mention in my post earlier today. 

I would like to see some pictures of the “Harrison” script from other ‘69 Camaros and '69Zs with their original radiators for comparison. I would also like to know the build date of your car to see if die ware may indicate why the Harrison letters are not well defined, or if this script is unique to the radiator, die number used, etc.  I purchased the radiator from Heartbeat City.  They purchased the original GM/Harrison radiator tank dies and are licensed to reproduce the GM radiators.

Thanks!

Title: Re: Quality of Repro Harrison Radiators?
Post by: 68Zproject on July 16, 2010, 02:53:52 AM

(http://i174.photobucket.com/albums/w112/68zproject/DSCN0370.jpg)
(http://i174.photobucket.com/albums/w112/68zproject/DSCN0369.jpg)

Title: Re: Quality of Repro Harrison Radiators?
Post by: GaryL on July 16, 2010, 03:23:11 AM

I bought mine from HBC several years ago. The "Harrison" looks about the same. It performs very well.

Title: Re: Quality of Repro Harrison Radiators?
Post by: My68SS on July 16, 2010, 02:39:44 PM

hmmm...outside half of the die isn't doing it's job. I'd be surprised if original 69 radiators were that poor and I doubt Harrison would have been happy with that.
Just for reference, here's my original dec '67 built 68. That's a bit of solder on the 'n', perhaps from when it was rebuilt.

(http://members.iinet.net.au/~dream/images/crg/harrison.jpg)

Title: Re: Quality of Repro Harrison Radiators?
Post by: Dave69x33 on July 16, 2010, 09:58:39 PM

Thanks My68SS & 69Z Project,

The "HARRISON" script on your radiators is more well defined and as I recalled from memory.

Jim Stubbings e-mailed me today to correct what I was told by a sales person, that Heartbeat City had the tooling made from an original radiator he had.  The tanks are not made from the original GM/Harrison dies.  It appears that a bit more work is needed to perfect the Harrison die script.  Again, other than the Harrison script, I am very happy with the look of the radiator.

Title: Re: Quality of Repro Harrison Radiators?
Post by: jacmac on July 17, 2010, 12:37:36 AM

I just bought a big block radiator thru Classic  Industries, guess where it came from ,Heartbeat City.As far as the stamping were "harrison" was adverage the rest of them pretty good.I hope it works well when I start the engine in 2 months! Overall  :-\im fairly satisfied!!We will see

Title: Re: Quality of Repro Harrison Radiators?
Post by: Dave69x33 on September 08, 2010, 01:24:38 AM

Thanks for the replies. I painted and installed my radiator several weeks ago.  It works very well with no leaks.