Later chim bottom rad hose routing...
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Could someone with a later chim help me out with some photos?
If possible I need some pics of the routing for the bottom radiator hose - what route it takes from leaving the radiator (which I believe is on a straight exit rather than the "almost 90 degree bend" of the earlier cars), through the chassis and up to the engine including how the lower heater hose joins it...
Cheers
Phil
If possible I need some pics of the routing for the bottom radiator hose - what route it takes from leaving the radiator (which I believe is on a straight exit rather than the "almost 90 degree bend" of the earlier cars), through the chassis and up to the engine including how the lower heater hose joins it...
Cheers
Phil
Mr Supercharged said:
There is a 90 degree bend in the rad pipe and the hose that joins it also has a 90 degree bend. If I remember tomorrow I will take some pictures for you.
That'd be great if you could - mine is an earlier vehicle that has the rad hose come up in front of the chassis rails and over the top and - as I'm wanting to fit the later fan cowlings that my car doesn't have - that doesn't leave much room for the cowlings and the fans betore they encroach on the coolant hoses. Just want to see how the later cowlings, fans and hoses all fit in. 
Cheers
Edited by Bassfiend229hp on Saturday 16th February 21:52
Bassfiend229hp said:
Mr Supercharged said:
There is a 90 degree bend in the rad pipe and the hose that joins it also has a 90 degree bend. If I remember tomorrow I will take some pictures for you.
That'd be great if you could - mine is an earlier vehicle that has the rad hose come up in front of the chassis rails and over the top and - as I'm wanting to fit the later fan cowlings that my car doesn't have - that doesn't leave much room for the cowlings and the fans betore they encroach on the coolant hoses. Just want to see how the later cowlings, fans and hoses all fit in. Cheers
Edited by Bassfiend229hp on Saturday 16th February 21:52
Mr Supercharged said:
Images as requested....
OK - so yours comes out of the rad exit hose and then does a *FLAT* right angle bend?Mine comes out and a silicone bend turns immediately upwards to meet with a formed metal pipe that sits over the top chassis member and has a 90 degree bend in it that then heads downwards to meet with that silicone hose...
Mr Supercharged said:
Mr Supercharged said:
If you are going to order the second one from ACT see if you can get a discount and order 2, I'll have one! Did you see the rust on my old mild steel one! :-)
I did ... mine's an early style one which was *FAR* worse than that when I got the old girl. I rubbed it back and painted it with some blue enamel paint which hasn't lasted badly but is starting to show some brown blooming through the paint now...OK - I'll mail Tim and see if he'll do anything on a pair.
(Of course, as he's showing -3 in stock then this might not be a goer...
)I already have the ACT silicone hoses fitted. Be aware that the top thermostat housing to swirl pot hose *MAY* be the wrong one and there's two elbows that are almost identical except for one is a reducer elbow which needs to go on the bottom water pump inlet.
If you want the right reducing elbow on the thermostat housing to swirl pot then ACT'll charge you for the hose rather than swapping it for the correct one.
It's the later style metal hose that I need.
What I'm trying to do is get a bit more space to play with between the radiator and the front of the chassis so that I can get later style radiator cowlings to try to increase the efficiency of the radiator fans (and then maybe add in a couple of the hefty Tuscan radiator fans as well) - but with the rad hose routing up in front of the chassis rail there isn't enough room to do that.
If you want the right reducing elbow on the thermostat housing to swirl pot then ACT'll charge you for the hose rather than swapping it for the correct one.
It's the later style metal hose that I need.
What I'm trying to do is get a bit more space to play with between the radiator and the front of the chassis so that I can get later style radiator cowlings to try to increase the efficiency of the radiator fans (and then maybe add in a couple of the hefty Tuscan radiator fans as well) - but with the rad hose routing up in front of the chassis rail there isn't enough room to do that.
Just received my ACT later style bottom pipe ...
... however, just wondering whether it would be possible to simply rotate the right angle silicone hose that joins onto the water pump housing by 90 degrees, pass it *UNDER* the rearmost crossmember rather than over and then simply use a straight pipe to connect the two hoses? I'd need to patch in a "T" to join in the lower heater return pipe but that shouldn't be difficult ... Just need to find somewhere that sells the bits to build up your own coolant runs ...
Could be just the puppy! http://www.cbsonline.co.uk/product/38mm_Welded_Alu... - just need to check the diameters.
... however, just wondering whether it would be possible to simply rotate the right angle silicone hose that joins onto the water pump housing by 90 degrees, pass it *UNDER* the rearmost crossmember rather than over and then simply use a straight pipe to connect the two hoses? I'd need to patch in a "T" to join in the lower heater return pipe but that shouldn't be difficult ... Just need to find somewhere that sells the bits to build up your own coolant runs ...
Could be just the puppy! http://www.cbsonline.co.uk/product/38mm_Welded_Alu... - just need to check the diameters.
Edited by Bassfiend229hp on Thursday 21st February 22:58
As an aside but related to the topic, I changed my radiator yesterday and had to change the bottom hose too. This because the old rad, the type with plastic sides, had a bottom outlet pipe which came straight out with no bend whereas the new one (an ally from Radtech) had a 90 degree elbow. So my existing bottom hose wouldn't fit but fortunately I had access to a silicone one made for a Tamora which was perfect. Just a warning to anyone binning the plastic-sided rad, check you don't need a new hose to go with the replacement before you remove anything.
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