I think I will stick with hoses with springs or do like the hot rodders did back before I was one. They used painted exhaust tubing to replace every straight part of the hose and left just enough of the curves to put hose clamps on. Sometimes it was done because the engine and radiator were out of two different cars and neither one was the same make as the car they were in. It is easy to get hoses that change size if you weld the two pieces of tubes together. One I saw, had the radiator lower hose on the wrong side so Bill just ran a tube across the bottom of the radiator support and put a "U" bend to get into the radiator. There was as much metal going from the water pump to the radiator as there was in the radiator. All I can say is it worked.
Might just be those Georgia springs do that. The ones we get are impossible to twist and get em to compress. Damned hard to cut too.
