Winner Racing Rads Fitment Issues NC30 UK Spec

flyingorphan · Post by **flyingorphan** » Tue Mar 29, 2016 5:45 pm

Recently bought a set of Winner racing Radiators to replace my old tired ones on my UK Spec NC30.

Price wasnt bad, think i paid £90 for them, recoated them in black to look more OEM and went about fitting them. Got a set of Winner Racing Hoses from Scott Jelleyman aswel. Hoses are pretty decent.

I understand you get what you pay for, but most Aluminium Radiators these days are all made in China. At 1st, I was that impressed with the radiators at 1st appearance that i sent them my AF1 125 radiator to have it dulipicated. (im restoring one, looks like a mini Nc30)

Anyway, coming to fitting the radiators was a completely different story.

Top Radiator:-

The top radiator fitted terribly, well didnt fit. I used my old rubbers, and aligned the radiator where it must go, but kept fowling on the top of my rocker cover. I bent the radiator grill tabs over, and still wasnt clearing the rocker cover.
Ended up grinding one of them off to get maximum clearance. Just about clears, but still doesnt align with the lower mount at all.
Tried bending the bracket, to bring it in more. Still wouldnt fit the bottom bracket. Top alignment hole lines up,but where you bolt it RH side it about half an inch away.

So overall, fitting has a nightmare. And as its not a track bike cant 'Make do'.
It seems the radiator has been made with a twist in it. Or its just wrong.

It clears the Factory fitted Oil cooler fine tho.

How it should fit (fitted without rubbers)

Bottom Radiator:-

Havent started fitting this yet, but already can see the fan location is completely out. I mean, how hard is it to jig up 3 holes for a fan to fit???

Have decided to buy another set of aftermarket radiators for now, and fit them. Hopefully might fit better. £60, and will be here Thursday. So can do another review on these.
Need my bike on the road for the weekend.

http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/171993384220? ... EBIDX%3AIT

Post by **pauliealdridge69** » Tue Mar 29, 2016 6:43 pm

Can't beleive you painted them before fitting
Take it You have no comeback on them at all now!?!
I've fitted rads direct from the same company, fit great and no issue at all on my uk bike?? Are you sure it's not an issue with something on the bike perhaps?

Post by **pauliealdridge69** » Tue Mar 29, 2016 6:51 pm

Rad fan is 2 mins to move the holes a little, perhaps even just bend the top tap down a little so it reaches both existing holes...surely that's no big deal on something hand made. These rads were like £650 from the uk suppliers originally and then £200 on here with bigger fitting issues and everyone was happy to have to add mounts and adjust them as they were cheap! Now they're £90 and you couldn't even buy the parts in the uk to make them for that now. I do appreciate it's annoying when you want to plug and play but they're so chesp it's unbelievable they can ship them for that price. Bet shipping is £35-40

Post by **vic-vtrvfr** » Tue Mar 29, 2016 7:27 pm

A lot of bikes are using these rads, a lot purchased from Scott and some directly from Winner via ebay as you did.
At the price, you'd expect some tweaking to make them fit. Shipping alone would be substantial as Paulie says.
I didn't bother putting the fan on my new rads and have no issues since. Easy solution.

flyingorphan · Post by **flyingorphan** » Tue Mar 29, 2016 7:30 pm

pauliealdridge69 wrote:Can't beleive you painted them before fitting
Take it You have no comeback on them at all now!?!
I've fitted rads direct from the same company, fit great and no issue at all on my uk bike?? Are you sure it's not an issue with something on the bike perhaps?

Hehe, yeh I painted them ages ago. didnt think I was going to get troubles fitting to be honest. They have offered a replacement if i return the old one, and possibly my original one. Still trying to sort something. As they do look quality radiators.

Really??? So thats good to hear. Least I know it nothing to do with it being a UK spec bike. As I feared the radiators could have been different. Unlikely tho.
What hoses did you use? Winner Racing hoses aswel?

The bike itself is a very good condition bike. Nothing visible or any damaged to mounting points etc. Cant imagine it being the bike, Well im hoping it isnt.

pauliealdridge69 wrote:Rad fan is 2 mins to move the holes a little, perhaps even just bend the top tap down a little so it reaches both existing holes...surely that's no big deal on something hand made. These rads were like £650 from the uk suppliers originally and then £200 on here with bigger fitting issues and everyone was happy to have to add mounts and adjust them as they were cheap! Now they're £90 and you couldn't even buy the parts in the uk to make them for that now. I do appreciate it's annoying when you want to plug and play but they're so chesp it's unbelievable they can ship them for that price. Bet shipping is £35-40

The lower radiator I can easily sort out. Its just annoying having to fettling something, when it should have been done in house. Some people dont have the tools, skills required to modify then.

st22041967 · Post by **st22041967** » Wed Mar 30, 2016 7:22 am

Not sure if it will help you but I have also ordered one of the Chinese lower radiators from eBay for a jap import NC30. If all goes well I'll update the post so others can buy one with confidence ......
Link to post here

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