Over the last few years, we’ve often been amazed at how difficult it is for Skyline owners to find replacement radiators for their cars. There isn’t a week that goes by that someone shows up at the shop hoping we could salvage a destroyed bent-out-of-shape scrapyard radiator. Unfortunately for them, Skyline owners drive their Skylines hard so when they crash them, they crash them hard.
When only a couple of tubes are cut, it’s possible to patch them up but taking a torch to an aluminum radiator for anything more than that just destroys it. Unlike so many other JDM cars like the Silvia, Sentra, 240SX, 300ZX, Trueno, and RX7, cars that were either sold in North America or have a close “cousin” that was sold here from which they can “borrow” parts, nothing fits a Skyline.
We had no choice, we started showing Koyo and Mishimoto racing rads and faced with a lack of options, many Skyline owners end up making the radiator the first step in what if often a long journey to building the sick car that we all dreamed of when we were growing up playing video games, driving the mythical Skyline and destroying the competition. What we didn’t realize for a while is that many of those Skylines, especially the R32 and R33 coming in from Japan once belonged to some serious Japanese car lovers and many of them are already modded right off the boat. We’ve seen countless Skylines with upgraded twin-turbos, intake and exhaust systems, racing seats, etc. that it turned out that adding a racing radiator to the mix was not the first step but really the next logical step in the modification of a car that was designed to rip whatever drove beside it. We’re proud to be a part of it and nothing makes us happier than seeing the look on the face of someone who’s been looking for a rad for weeks, or getting an email or a phone call from a delighted customer. It makes our day whenever it happens. Thank you!
