[bamman]

Part 4401969 is superseded by 4401968. The only difference between the two radiators should be that the 968 radiator is a thicker core for Turbo and V6 models.

4401969 is no longer available and is NS1.

How thick is the 968 radiator? All you can really find in the aftermarket is the single core radiators. Is the 968 truly a two core radiator?

 

[Bob Lincoln]

All three radiators - the OEM 4401968 that I put in my 92 Daytona nine years ago; the radiator that I just pulled (which might be aftermarket); and the new OEM 4401968 - are all single-row and the cores are all the same size and thickness. As I said, the placement of the flanges on the new one is ever so slightly off, so that the condenser won't sit where it belongs. The new one is made in Mexico, not sure of the others.

The new 4401968 doesn't fit against the old 92 Daytona's condenser exactly, but the old 4401968 from nine years ago does. And the old 4401968 doesn't fit the condenser in the 1993 Daytona, which is a different condenser from what was OEM in the 1992, despite the parts book showing the same part number.

 

[ChargedDust]

I don't know if this helps at all but I did pull several condensers for spares (because the aftermarket one are junk) at the junkyard, and all the later model ones I remember were parallel flow. I know the ones up to '89 were series flow, not sure about the '90, that can be a funny year, some things are one year only for '90.

 

[Bob Lincoln]

Well, as I said, my 92 Daytona had a serpentine flow condenser for R12, and the 93 is listed in the parts book as the same condenser. But it was not what I found in the car (may not be original), it's parallel flow, and it was still R12 when I bought the car. So it's looking like someone put a later condenser in it, and had it refilled with R12 at the time. It runs nice and cold with R134a now.