THE MUDDER CORE

If you are into mud bogging or trail riding and find mud holes everywhere you go, if you find yourself pulling over to let the side by side cool down because your rig is overheating from your radiator getting plugged with mud or debris, you have came to the right place!  At TCP Performance we have designed the best performance radiators for the Side by Side mud riding community. 

 The "Mudder" was inspired by a customer who called us because he was constantly clogging his radiator when going through mud holes on the trail. Eventually, the radiator after a short period of time, would plug so heavily with mud that he couldn't get any air flow through it.  He was finding himself in limp mode and would end up waiting for his Can Am Commander Radiator to cool down enough to ride again or, he had to find a way to try and clean it out on the trail.

  Soon it had become such a nuisance that he started looking at a Can Am Radiator Relocation Kit. He wasn't too keen on the idea of mounting a radiator to the cage behind himself and his passenger due to the danger of having something start to leak on the radiator or having a hose rupture and start spraying him with 200 plus degree coolant while he was speeding down a trail or stuck in a mud bog. We have always been concerned about the risks involved with a radiator relocation kit such as that. We have read on a lot of side x side forums about people doing this. Yes, it does get the radiator up out of the mud. Call me over cautious if you wish but, all it takes is one leak to change either your life or the life of the person riding with you if either of you ended up with severe burns from it.

  He said he had looked at the Wild Boar radiator relocation kit. There was not as much of a risk of getting burned but his concern was the loss of visibility from relocating the radiator to the hood of the side by side. 

 We had already designed and had in production a thicker radiator that was twice as thick as the stock radiator with a triple pass flow configuration. It was working well but, with the amounts of mud  plugging his radiator we were afraid it might end up not improving his situation as much as we were hoping for. 

He made a suggestion to reduce the fin count so larger particles could go through as well as making it easier to clean out because what did get in there would wash out easily. At first I had some concerns with reducing the fin count because of the reduced heat transfer but, decided if he was willing to install it, be a tester for the product and give us valuable feedback about the results, I would order a special built aluminum radiator core with non louvered fins and reduced fin per inch count from 14 to 8.

WOW!  It was the best RISK he or I had ever taken! You will read in his testimonial review and see in the picture below, his Commander after diving into a mud hole. After reading the results he had from doing this, I was surprised beyond belief at how well it worked! 

 Since that time we have sold literally hundreds of the Can Am Commander Mudder Radiators with the majority of these performance radiators going to the South and Eastern states of the US where people are experiencing very muddy riding conditions. We have also shipped a large number of these units to Canada where customers were experiencing the same problems riding in similar conditions. So, if you are after the best Can Am Commander performance cooling radiator while keeping it in the factory location for mud riding, this will keep you cool!

 We have also found this design to work well for all the utility Side by Sides as well. We have received calls from Fire Fighters running in hot and dirty conditions requiring hauling heavy loads of lots equipment up steep grades into the mountains and getting the improved cooling performance needed for maintaining the engine temperatures they wanted. We have received calls from Ranchers and Power Line Maintenance Companies in the Texas extreme hot temperatures, getting feedback from them amazed at the cooling results they had experienced after installing our high performance radiators.

 County municipalities, and commercial companies doing weed control have used our Mudder Radiator. They fight plugging the factory radiator with grass and weed seed that would cause overheating problems.  When they went to clean the radiator out it was extremely difficult because of the tight fin count and the louvered fins not releasing the debris which had been wedged in the radiator core. One municipality in Southern Utah was having such experiences with five of their Polaris Ranger 800's. They ordered one to try out, two months later called and ordered two more then six month's later after receiving the years new budget ordered two more completing the modification of the fleet.   

If you experience heating issues due to external clogging, the Mudder is your solution!

THE HIGH EFFICIENCY CORE
  If you tend to favor riding the sand dunes, riding in Sugar Sand, Rock Crawling in Moab, or just riding dry dusty trails up steep mountains, you'll find that our High Efficiency style is going to be best for you.

Our desert racing customers love them too!

 Here at TCP we strive to meet the all the performance radiator cooling needs for any kind of riding conditions. 

Hello Garth,

 I can't tell you enough how pleased I am with the performance of the radiator that you've built for me. The following is an exurb from a blog on commanderforums.org. Please feel free to use any part of this review to help business. Please feel free to contact me if I can do anything else for you.

"After experiencing first hand an overheating due to a mud packed radiator. I've seen guys on the forum talk about it extensively. A lot of members started using radiator relocation kits. I am not a fan of the relocation kit. Therefore, I started searching for an alternative. I came across an aftermarket radiator built by TCP (Totally Cool Products) I was interested in the larger, triple pass design (the OEM is a single pass) that also fit in the original radiator location. So I contacted TCP and discussions were made about their current production radiator as it relates to mud clogging leading to overheating. The data did not suggest there was any overheating issue due to the triple pass design, which made the commander run, on average, 20-30% cooler than the OEM. Though the data was very positive, I suggested a larger fin spacing would also help with mud clogging. Therefore, I had a custom radiator built using the triple pass design as well as the larger fin spacing . I just returned from a three day ride at Brimstone ATV trails in Tennessee. I put it to the test of how much mud that I can cram into this radiator. 

I am here to tell you that I was more than extremely pleased with the results. After being mud soaked for three days, the commander would idle for a long period, climb to four bars, and back to 2-3 bars under way. If the fan kicked on, it was at idle, and only for about 10-20 seconds. I think this may have solved our overheating problems due to a mud clogged radiator!"

TCP has been notified of my results and are please to offer this radiator to other members. When you call, tell them that you heard it from LeRoy Fry and I said thanks again. They are a great bunch of people to work with.