I am swapping out my 22re to a 7MGE and need help choosing a radiator that will fit. Alot of the posts I see with this swap have hacked the core support up to make a radiator fit. I am trying to avoid that since this body is in perfect shape. I read in one post someone cut the AC portion off the crankshaft pulley to make more room since they were not using the AC anyway, but I can't find it again. Are these engines externally balanced? I see that there are aluminum aftermarket pulleys, so I am thinking that its not???? Any insight is much appreciated. Thanks!

 

The engine is externally balanced. Whatever you do, don't machine off the a/c pully of the balancer, and do not buy an aftermarket aluminum balancer. From what I remember there is one company that make a 2 pulley balancer that is balanced but it will cost you a pile of cash.

I'd say just cut the rad support and make a frame to hold your rad wherever you need it. That's what I had to do. I also have an electric pull fan in between the rad and engine and I have a solid 1/4" gap between my fan and balancer.


if you want pictures of my setup there should be some in my build up thread when I was building my intercooler.

 

I used the radiator out of a v6 truck for mine. It fit right into the stock location without any modification. I was not able to use a manual fan though, so I used the electric off the supra and mounted it in front of the radiator.

 

I do plan on using a pusher fan. How did you run your radiator hoses with that setup? The inlet to thermostat positions seem like it wouldn't work. Do you have pics? I have done a frame off resto on this and the body is pristine so I would hate to cut up the core support.

 

 

I am using the supra hoses with a little modifications (trimming) to fit. I will post pics tomorrow when I can.

No need to cut anything up as long as its not a turbo.

 

Here are the pics. Including the part number for the upper hose.

 

What year truck is that from? I just ordered a V6 radiator for an 88 4runner and the inlet is on the passenger side.

 

So Ive been looking into this and noticed something odd on my end.. Here is the tag number on my radiator that I got from the radiator shop.


The part number is 231 0945 which, I noticed when doing research, correlates to a standard 4cy radiator. But the inlet and outlets are on the opposite sides of factory placement which allows me to use the supra hoses. So now I honestly dont know what I have. The guy at the radiator shop told me it was a "V6" radiator. But now Im thinking that when he "ordered" the "V6" radiator he actually swapped tanks from a different application and made one. So it looks like I have unknowingly been driving around for years with a modified 4cyl radiator.

 

I wonder if this would work? anybody try this with a 7mge swap? http://www.cxracing.com/mm5/merchant...&Category_Code=

 

You could also have one made.

 

I ordered the CX racing one I mentioned above. It fits perfect but the inlet will interfere with alternator, but I am going to put a 90 degree elbow there and it should be perfect.