bought a cheap radiator from orileys, they said they ordered the right one by the part #. the top and bottom fittings are on the same side but the ones on the orig. radiator are on diff. sides.. can I use this radiator?
Sounds like he gave you a V-8 radiator. In addition to the hose placement being wrong, I'm pretty sure you'll find that the hoses sizes are too large for the 6-cyl rad hoses. Take 5.0ina66's advice - life is too short to fool around hacking the wrong part into your car, when the correct one is readily available.