Reply To: Waterfront Louver System

[Gregory Long]

Hi Tom, it’s actually a WINTERfront. The Series 80’s need all the cooling they can get, so you don’t see many cars with a winterfront still installed.

The ‘honeycomb’ radiator clogs up very easily with rust flakes from inside the block and head, and bits of congealed waterpump grease make a ‘glue’ and soon the honeycomb radiator is partially clogged, and it needs all the air it can get through the core to cool the engine.

Speaking of honeycomb cores, the winterfront is usually mounted with 4 long, small diameter bolts that go through 4 of the honeycomb core holes.. This is an easy way to create a leak in the radiator. The original bolts had a thin rubber tube that supposedly cushioned the bolt’s contact with the radiator core.. But the rubber became rock-hard very quickly with the heat, and soon the core was dripping coolant.

Be very careful with using, installing and removing a Winterfront.

Greg Long.