60-1 Aftermarket coolant hookup q.

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Originally Posted by Boostmaniac

This thread is full of stuff that confuses me and makes me want to cry a little bit.

I need pics.

Or I'll cry.

I swear I will.

No crying allowed. What pictures do you want? I've been kind of busy trying to get everything ready for me to get back to school (however I have to deal with some other issues) so I have to hold up on modifying the car any for the time being... well... maybe not completely, but I'm still going to be hard pressed until the end of september. We'll see though.

Give me a list of pictures you want to see and I'll see what I can come up with.

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Universal Coolant kit:

Extra goodies including a -4 an stainless steel oil feed line

[Boostmaniac]

Well, I'm confused about the routing. The pic you provided looks like it goes through the heater core, and if it does that means you have to have the heater on all the time or it will just block the flow of coolant. This would be a bad thing both ways unless it is always winter.

I could have gotten that wrong though, and that looks like a baller kit. Where did you get it from?

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Originally Posted by Boostmaniac

Well, I'm confused about the routing. The pic you provided looks like it goes through the heater core, and if it does that means you have to have the heater on all the time or it will just block the flow of coolant. This would be a bad thing both ways unless it is always winter.

I could have gotten that wrong though, and that looks like a baller kit. Where did you get it from?

I can scan in the instructions a little later on if you'd like. From what I understand it hooks up to the hoses that go towards the cabin heater core and away from it. They're -an T junctions so the coolant wouldn't need to have the heater on (since it's not in series).

The kit itself came from Turbonetics Inc. I've been working with one of their sales reps on getting parts like this for the na->turbo conversion. For what it's worth it's alot cheaper than peicing it together one bit at a time, and probably cut down my headaches a few times over.

[WE3RX7]

The 60-1 turbonetics turbo we installed on my buddies miata ran in parallel fine. Its been doing good so far. He's running a koyo radiator, but no other cooling modifications really and the temps are steady. He did build a duct to direct air under the FMIC to the rad though, but other than that, no issues.

You should be fine.

BTW - I'm doing similar wire tucks on my FC for the same reasons. I'm starting with a clean slate though, no wires right now at all

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Originally Posted by WE3RX7

The 60-1 turbonetics turbo we installed on my buddies miata ran in parallel fine. Its been doing good so far. He's running a koyo radiator, but no other cooling modifications really and the temps are steady. He did build a duct to direct air under the FMIC to the rad though, but other than that, no issues.

You should be fine.

BTW - I'm doing similar wire tucks on my FC for the same reasons. I'm starting with a clean slate though, no wires right now at all

Oh how I envy you! I won't be able to start stripping the engine bay until after the 2nd of october... Unless I send in the cash to for that faulty exhaust deally. It really depends though. Do I spend the cash on gas to come up, or do I just pay the ticket? Which one will be cheaper... hrm...

[WE3RX7]

Well if you got the ticket in Culpeper, good luck. They hate imports, period - always have.

I wouldnt envy me - my FC project is a LONG process, lol. I've built it three times already, and this last build is already on the 2nd year!

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Originally Posted by WE3RX7

Well if you got the ticket in Culpeper, good luck. They hate imports, period - always have.

Then I might as well just pay the ticket out of pocket then. I got it right on the culpeper exit. I thought about driving over the median but that probably would not have gone over well.

I wouldnt envy me - my FC project is a LONG process, lol. I've built it three times already, and this last build is already on the 2nd year!

You're talking to the kid that wants to put his FC on a rotisserie so he can fix the undercarraige and unibody. I put it together way to quickly the first time through.

[WE3RX7]

^ Yup. I'm not going the rotisserie route since its unibody. I'm going the up on a lift/tall jackstands and grit blasting and recoating in POR15. I also plan to have any jack points reinforced and new jack points (pinch weld style) welded in.

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Originally Posted by WE3RX7

^ Yup. I'm not going the rotisserie route since its unibody. I'm going the up on a lift/tall jackstands and grit blasting and recoating in POR15. I also plan to have any jack points reinforced and new jack points (pinch weld style) welded in.

Sounds like what my goals are, though it'll be a rare event when I actually have time/money to do it.