I got some questions and comments about the coolant hoses and waterpump set up in my car so here is some info.
The coolant "hoses" I am using are actually flexible stainless steel tubes. The same goes for the heater hoses. I got them from Jegs, I think.
Coolant hoses: http://www.jegs.com/cgi-bin/ncommerce3/ProductDisplay?prrfnbr=1129&prmenbr=361
Heater hoses: http://www.jegs.com/cgi-bin/ncommerce3/ProductDisplay?prrfnbr=243246&prmenbr=361
I like these things. You can snake them around anything.
I took some closer-up pics of my remote waterpump installed. Pardon the dust.
The way it's installed, you can only see one of the elbow fittings I used to plumb into the front of the block. The other one is identical. CSI makes the 12AN flanges that I used on the front of the block. For wiring, I ran a medium guage wire from the old "fuel injection" junction at the fuse box to the hot wire on the waterpump and grounded it through my harness at the engine grounds. I did up the fuse to a 20A. The waterpump will run anytime the key is at "on".
At about 2 o'clock on the pump in this pic, you can see where the inlet for the pump is. I ran flexible stainless tube from the passenger coolant tube to the WP inlet. I also ran a stainless tube from the thermostat housing to the driver side coolant tube, along the firewall. That 7/8" flex-tube running across the pic is a heater hose. I ran it from the intake manifold (just under the therm housing) to the heater core and left the stock hose from the heater core to the passenger coolant tube, since it is really not visible.
I should have incorporated a fill location on the hose that runs along the firewall to the the driver coolant tube as that is the highest point when the car is level. As it is, the coolant system is difficult to burp, but a higher fill location should take care of that.
Hope that helps.
[This message has been edited by 87GTSleeper (edited 04-03-2005).]
