radiator leak..

I went to Steeda's website to post a link and saw they are not selling the C&R anymore, Fluidyne only. The C&R is what they use in NASCAR, V8 Supercars and other racing series. When you see a front end wreck in NASCAR you will always see that C&R huge black painted on Logo. My car went from running at 195-230 in all conditions to run 185 degrees and under after installing that radiator, best money spent. Car obviously ran so much better with cool temps. The C&R radiator, 180 Stat, 60/40 Mix and a bottle of Water Wetter was my cooling system.

I still run a stock replacement 2 core (about $100) because space was an issue with the vortech crank pulley. It works fine with my 500+hp H/C/I 302 with a 180 stat and the fans adjusted accordingly in the tune. Temp never gets over 200.

Not sure what all the original poster has done or plans on doing to his car, but if it's mostly stock and doesn't have a bigger motor then a bigger radiator is overkill and less gas money in your pocket. Just replacing the 16-17 year old gunked up stock radiator with a new one helps with most cooling issues.

I too live in a very hot climate. 170+ days this year over 90 degrees.

The very best mod i ever did was go with the summit universal radiator that you can mod to fit in our cars.
My car would run at 180 with no Fan at all. I had a manual fan switch and really only turned it on when in traffic with the A/C on.