Plumbing the Cooling System

[Bill D]

How are other RCR builders plumbing the cooling system from the thermostat to the pipes in the tunnel? With the alternator in place, there seems no room to run the coolant hose. Pics would be helpful.

Thanks
Bill D

[Big-Foot]

Bill - I'm designing mine to use a -16 AN Outlet of the intake which will connect to a 90 degree fitting. The hose will route over the top and then behind the alternator, from there down to another 90 degree connecter to hook up to the through pipe to the radiator area. Probably not much help to you - but I see no practical way to get the hose routing any shorter in my application. I measured this out to take a 22" hose...

[Chuck]

Bill:

I had some Stainless Steel pipes fabricated which were routed behind the alternator. Permalink #108, January 11, 2008, on my build blog has the details.

Chuck and Ryan's RCR Build



Chuck

[Bill D]

Thanks Chuck. That looks to be the solution.

[Sandy]

I don't know how tight things are but you can do a lot of work with some of the silicon hoses using formed parts like the 45 and 90 deg angle parts as well as pre-formed pipe (HRP World and others have them). I also have on a swivel t-stat housing from CSR performance. I don't have an alternator or other stuff so routing the hoses looks easier.

Sandy