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Old 05-01-2014, 09:58 AM   #1
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Change everything to-16 or -20 AN lines, this makes building lines much easier and get's rid of the SS bendy stuff. I've seen some people get away with never having leaks, then there are others like myself that use hardlines and silicone clamps and fight leaks FORFUCKINGEVER! First year I had my car on the road after the swap in 2008 or 2009 I fought leaks all year. That following winter cut every nipple off and welded on some -16 bungs and never had another coolant leak again.

Now for the air pocket problem.... here's my suggestion - Build an AST.
I would mount it on the shock tower and make that the highest point. Run a line from the rad to the AST, and then from the nipple on the top of the WP housing to the AST as well. I went a little farther and ran one from the turbo as well to make my thermal siphon a little more effective. I had in the past a line running from the nipple on the rear housing back to the WP housing, and now I have that as the feed for the water cooled WG's. The return from the AST should be a -10 and plumbed into the heater core return into the lower portion of the WP housing.

Trust me, you'll appreciate this advice

I never have to burp my cooling system. Seriously.... never.... last week when we were leaving for DGRR I opened the AST, dumped in a gallon of coolant (and when I say dumped I mean as fast as I could pour it into the AST was as fast as the cooling system would accept it because all the air was being pushed out and into the AST from the three air bleeds - the rad, the WP housing, and the turbo cooling line), dumped in a gallon of dist water.... thought it would've been overfilled but it wasn't so I added maybe a quart of Poland spring water... not pleased but it was all we had... never burped it, just started it, checked for leaks and kept on going.
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