There's some alloy rads on ebay for around the $250 mark. Can anyone vouch for these? I know the quality can be very poor with some of the alloy items. My other option is to pinch the brackets from a 1.6 rad and put them on (reversed) to a 2L rad. But the core needs decalcifying so all up $150 for the fomoco set up.

Have you priced the cost to get your rad triple cored?
 
A mate had his done and it wasn't that much if I remember.
 
Cheers,
 
Matt

Heavy duty cores come in @ $360.
 
I have it all sorted now. 2L rad with 1.6 reversed brackets.

Jesus, I stand corrected then! I got my 3 core rad 2nd hand for $35.00.  Bargain.
 
Matt

Yep, that's a cracker deal Matt.
The core I'm using is 2 row, heavy duty (high FPI) so no need to upgrade.