Hooking up a 4age 16v RWD cooling system

[keimeier]

i hope it clears doesnt really mater. its jus a pig any way ill cut or bash the f***k out of the firewall hahaha

[keimeier]

is this right now samQ?

[Sam-Q]

yeah sorry for the delay, yeak looks great and good work.

Nikkojoe : In theory thats possible but first up he would have to get hoses to suit, second you would have to disconnect the cable as it would be pretty embarassing if his engine ran hot when he or someone else accidently put his heater switch to the hot position

[keimeier]

thanks samQ for all your help!

james

[Nikkojoe]

Yeah I don't see how its hard to get hoses to suit, just get a roll of fresh heater hose and go nuts . I may be doing something similar on my track car, but no one will be driving it other than me

[Sam-Q]

well it's not but if something is already there then I dont why to not use it. Besides this may cause you to bust your seal on your heater flow control tap, they arn't the best stock and with the extra flow it might send the old hardened O ring flying, your risk..

I don't get it though, your going out of your way to make something more compromised? just plug it?

[Nikkojoe]

I don't think it will be much of a problem, if anything it would be by-passing already. The above setup is much the same anyway, blocking off with hose... just get the thing welded up closed, no potential leaks ever.

It's not much of my concern atm, mainly finding a suitable water path for cooling my turbo on the 4agte is more of an issue.

[Sam-Q]

well that makes things simple, just use those two connections for your water cooled core and that's all you need, two problems solved in one

[Nikkojoe]

Would it be though? Thinking about it, hot water flows out from back of head, into turbo, water gets hotter, out of turbo into side pipe (rwd 4ac spec) then the hot water is pumped back into block to circulate again? (thats how i see it anyway?)

Im sure it would eventually go into radiator, but doesn't seem that efficient if you know what i mean.

With the heater core there, it would have some sort of cooling before it re-entered again.

[Sam-Q]

well that's how all cars are though, sure it's hot water but it's still cooler than the core, or atleast meant to be. Some less efficient truck water to air intercoolers used to use a simular arangement but through the main passage.