Radiator replacement question Options

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Bit the bullet and decided to try to resurrect my Base Level 94 Celica ST 1.8L with manual transmission. It has been unable to start for over a year and a car buff friend stopped by and assured me he would help me pull the engine and get me through the problems of rebuilding it's 7AFE.

So, the engine bay is empty, the garage is full of mostly washed parts, the engine block in on an engine stand, I have a rebuilt head, and I am faced with the following problem about the radiator:

What caused her to shut down was an overheating event which messed the head gasket, warped the head so it could not be repaired, and blew a hole in the RADIATOR.

It just so happens that a couple of years ago when I was redoing her suspension, brakes and wheel bearings all round, I needed a front steering knuckle and found one on a Celica at a local junk yard. At that time I also ripped off that Celica's decent looking radiator and brought it home where it has been stored ever since.

My Celica's transmission is manual. Its radiator is different than the one I got at the junk yard, which is for an automatic transmission. There is no identifying information on the junkyard radiator, and I do not recall what Celica it came from, but maybe 1995, just guessing. I moved the two fans from my old radiator and was easily able to mount them on the junkyard radiator. The only way I know the two radiators are different is that 1) my radiator core is about 5/8" deep, while the junkyard radiator core is 1" deep, and there are two teats on the bottom of the junkyard radiator (for automatic transmission fluid) that are not on my radiator.

All that said, the QUESTION:

Would it be ok to use the junkyard automatic transmission made for radiator in my Celica that used a radiator made for only for a manual transmission? Would it cool my engine properly? Are their any snakes laying in the direction of my thinking?

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This is the junkyard radiator populated with the fans stripped from my busted radiator.

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This picture has the busted radiator placed in front of the junkyard radiator. Notice that the water hose connections are in the same places on both radiators. I do not know for certain that I stripped it off an ST model Celica, but the steering knuckle from the same car fit mine perfectly. It was a case of the steering knuckle getting slightly bent and new brake rotors would not work without scraping very badly.

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Last photo shows the damage resulting from the overheat event, or possibly caused the overheat event. Don't know which, but minor damage there was evident several years prior to the overheating event.

Thank both of you for so rapidly responding to my question. The suggestion that putting this radiator in place of the busted one might be a slight upgrade of the cooling capacity is what my intuition was telling me, but I needed to hear it from someone who knows better than I.