Serp engines - coolant rail around driver's side rocker box

[Pupp]

Anyone else curse the bloody awful design of the twin coolant pipes that run alonside the rocker cover. Nightmare everytime the cover has to come off and a nightmare to remove the rail... anyone come up with a silicone hose solution as an alternative? Thinking of routing two runs along the inner wing or even inside the wing void...

[Pupp]

Ant. said:

I went from pre-serp to serp and didn't fancy the heater pipes down the side of the rocker either.

Silicon U bend from the outlet on the side of the manifold, onto a 90deg bent SS pipe running under the manifold.
The other heater pipe also has a SS pipe under the manifold, attached to another silicone pipe leading to the rad return pipe below the pump.

Edited by Ant. on Tuesday 15th September 22:12

Cheers Ant, that sounds tidy... don't suppose you have any pics?

[Pupp]

Ant. said:

Pupp said:

Ant. said:

The pipe is SS domestic plumbing pipe from Wickes.

HTH

Clever bugger

[Pupp]

Ant. said:

The pipe is SS domestic plumbing pipe from Wickes.

HTH

You sure it was stainless Ant? I'm struggling to find stainless plumbing pipe...chromed copper, yes.

[Pupp]

Ok, done this now and it's a much neater appearance with an added benefit of more room at the rear of the block to get you hand round the back of the plenum etc. Went slightly overboard on the stainless pipe 'though; about 5m left

[Pupp]

Ant. said:

So you managed to find the pipe I mentioned??

Not from any regular DIY place but sourced some stainless 15mm O/D stuff from a place that plumbs food factories etc... needed a mandrel bender to cope with it but pleased with the results. Think there would be room for two runs of 13mm I/D silicone under the inlet manifold as an alternative.

Edited by Pupp on Monday 2nd November 12:59

[Pupp]

Ok, here's what mine looks like... used a pair of 90deg silicone bends off the manifold with an ally joiner... gets round to the pipe nice and neatly though I guess a 180deg elbow would fit in there with some jiggling (it's tight behind the alternator). Access to the O/S exhaust manifold bolts and rocker cover is much enhanced

[Pupp]

Ant. said:

Coolio ! All you need to do now is fit the JE alt bracket and tidy the front end up even more....

My 180deg bend is quite tight behind the alt, no problems so far though..

It is a big lump isn't it? Could just machine it down a bit...

[Pupp]

Ant. said:

Ant. said:

Where did you get that flame trap???

Nah, get rid, think of the weight..

I was on about the alt carrier! Leave my billet flame trap alone

[Pupp]

Ant. said:

Pupp said:

Ant. said:

Ant. said:

Where did you get that flame trap???

Nah, get rid, think of the weight..

I was on about the alt carrier! Leave my billet flame trap alone

Tried to be smart with the quotes! So the billet flame trap, tell me more...

It was an Ebay find... work of a bored engineer I think, just a CNC copy of the tin one