i am looking to fit an alloy radiator from peugeot 206 - unless someone can point me to custom alloy rad for under £ 100.

anyways, done a mock up using chipboard and it looks like it will fit, but not a gread deal of space spare.

how much cleararnace would I need between steering shaft and radiator? Ia m allowing about 5 mm - this is with the shaft closest to the rad as it "wobbles" due to UJ.

I could put a notch in the doubled up top rail but don't like the idea of that.

I can also put the radiator further back and again is 10 mm from engine to radiator enough to allow for engine movement?

Finally I can gain a few mm but taking metal off the water pump nose. Anyone know much about the front of crossflow water pumps? There is a central shaft and then a ring around it that is part of the pulley - shortening the central part should be ok but what about the pully part? Should get 4 to 10 mm ish.

photos as below.

gap between steering shaft and radiator
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oh, the peugeot 106 rad, alloy, has 1.4x area of mk2 escort plus us suppoesedly 40% more efficient so any future overheating problems will not be radiator related.

the water pump nose clearance photo
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and finally the option of notching the top rail, hmmm....
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i suppose for completeness, front view. I have mocked up outlets on reverse and although I have to route lower hose across the front of the engine, there is clearance under the crank puller .... phew.
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