Cooling pipework layout
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Hi,
I am currently in the process of swapping the water pump to an electric one (Davies Craig 80 unless anyone can suggest a smaller equal one) to allow run on after runs (hillclimb and sprints)
Now, at present I have the heater take off piped through a heater and back to the bottom hose. As the heater is never on, this surely means hot water is just going straight back in to the engine and bypassing the rad? I want to keep the heater take off open to keep flow at that end of the head, but the heater can go.

Will the coolant system still flow correctly if I put it into the stat housing/top hose? I ant see why not but haven't seen anyone with it like that.

Cheers,

Mine's been like it for years, out of the heater tap and back into the top hose as I don't run a heater.

I have been told by the knowledgeable folk on another unamed forum that it won't work and my car will implode and kill several small children and bunnies.

The only small thing I have to do is bleed the air out of the system on a fresh fill by undoing the pipe at the heater take off untill the air lock is gone.

i believe mine was plumbed up like this too

Yes i moved to the darkside

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i believe mine was plumbed up like this too

Yes i moved to the darkside

Instagram @jdm_brett

Good stuff. It is with a side mount by the way.
So I should be able to run into the stat housing with a sandwich plate or top hose no problem?

the fact that the stat is a flow restriction and that your returning hi pressure to a low pressure zone it will flow

Cheers, do you reckon it should still be ok with just a blanking plate in and no stat? I can't entirely get my head around the flow pattern.

Edited by smiffy_no46 on 9th Nov, 2014.