I have the Champion BC1193 installed. Install went fairly well, and I have taken it for a quick drive and everything seems fine. My biggest challenges were dealing with the damage from shipping. I will start with that:
The first problem I noticed was a bent mounting pin:
I had ordered the radiator from Ledfoot Racing, so I called them and was told to first photograph the damage and then try to fix it. They seemed to think a hammer/mallet would be the way to go, but I opted to use a piece of DOM steel as a handle to bent the pin back. One thing I noticed while doing this is there is a good amount of flex possible in the upper and lower shrouds of this radiator. The Cold Case had straps welded from top to bottom which would restrain this flex.
The next real problem was a bent inlet tube:
This was harder to figure out how to fix. I needed something that would taper from 1 1/16" to 1 5/32" over a relatively short distance, but not too short. I have some old sockets that have a taper to them but none of those were the right size, not even if I used several of them in the process. I was at the point of trying to make my own tool when I found a Morse Taper adapter in my lathe tooling. I don't have anything that runs this large of a taper, so it wasn't something that initially came to mind. I think it is an MT3, but it could be an MT4. At any rate, it was the perfect taper for the job:
In addition to those problems the draincock had both tabs bent in towards the tank and one tank was a good bit scuffed up. These issues do not matter to me, but they could have mattered to someone else. I don't use the draincock. I just remove them and install the flushest possible plug. And I am not building a show vehicle, so I am not too concerned about a smudge on the polished finish. But that could have meant a return for someone else, and I could understand why.
If Champion is paying any attention I would like to suggest they step up the game on their packaging. This is all the packaging that came with this radiator:
And this is the amount of movement that was possible for the pins:
In comparison, here is the Cold Case packaging:
Cold Case is kind of on my excrement list at the moment (no plans to ship my replacement for another 4-6 weeks), but they do at least know how to package something.
If I recall correctly, my Mopar HD came with those plastic covered styrofoam pieces that expand and mold themselves around the radiator. That system would probably work much better than what Champion is currently doing. For a good quality radiator someone should look into some better options. If time were not of the essence to me I would have shipped this radiator back.