Coolant Crossover hose Blew last night
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Melting Slicks
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Coolant Crossover hose Blew last night
So I have the bypass mod on my car to keep the coolant out of the Throttle Body. So last night the hose developed a hole and blew coolant everywhere. My question is would it be ok to run a braided fuel line from the radiator straight to the front crossover tube? I believe I have a piece of braided line long enough to do that but wasnt sure if there would be any concerns on doing so.
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So I have the bypass mod on my car to keep the coolant out of the Throttle Body. So last night the hose developed a hole and blew coolant everywhere. My question is would it be ok to run a braided fuel line from the radiator straight to the front crossover tube? I believe I have a piece of braided line long enough to do that but wasnt sure if there would be any concerns on doing so.
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not really permission I just wondered if there was anything special about coolant hoses like there is with fuel hose. I know someone installed a fuel line on my car and it swelled up and blew to pieces.
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Then it sounds like they installed a fuel line/hose, that was not designed for fuel injection. Fuel injection line is reinforced, and is way more than you need for a cooling system bleed line. So...it's more than you need, but you'll never need more.
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I'm kind of on the fence about it because all the other hoses aren't braided. But that thing lays in there close to the pulleys and I am guessing thats what happened to the current hose, it sit on the water pump pulley and eventually rubbed a hole in it. So the braided line would be good protection.
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Ahhh theres the info I needed.. Anyone know the two different sizes? Maybe I should just get a new one from the parts store.
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I was just saying that in the event something like that happened again maybe the added protection would keep me from where I am now.
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It's debatable if you even get a 1.5 hp gain with the bypass mod. Air velocity, through the throttle body, is simply too great for the incoming air passing through it, to pick up any appreciable amount of heat.
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Yep, and I'm not digging up that debate......because frankly.....I don't care. The 1.5hp number I posted, is not anything that I measured, or have seen tested.
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