I've got a gap between my header and my water hose that you could barely slide a credit card through. Should I wrap both in heat wrap or just one?
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I've got a gap between my header and my water hose that you could barely slide a credit card through. Should I wrap both in heat wrap or just one?
IIRC, the two hoses are connecting to a tube attached to the side of the block. How about if you re-route the water by getting a different tube temporarilly until you decide to change headers again.
Maybe a piece of copper pipe would even work. Just clamp it to the old tubing for support.
Wrap the header. Unless you're worried about radiant heat from the water line damaging the exhaust manifold... :wink:
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Originally Posted by altiain
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Originally Posted by altiain
I was thinking that any extra wrapping on the water line would aid in preventing it from blistering.
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Originally Posted by POS Racing
Quiet you! :D
I'd be afraid of the box catching on fire with all of that heat buildup.:rolleyes:
But really, it is rather close to the header. Some sort of heat sheild would seem to be in order. That or finding a way to get the hose further away from the manifold.
On whitie, I had to bend the pipe behind the header at a less acute angle and it moved out of harms way. Are you still running the heater? If not you and just plug ur up and be donw with it.
Funny thing... the header Bean has is the very one that I got from you after it came out of whitie. Interestingly, I blew a heater hose while running it, at some point prior to pawning it off to Bean. I never made a connection, as it seems pretty common to have heater hoses split on cars with over 100k miles.Quote:
Originally Posted by Ataim
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Originally Posted by Titus
Hey bean, sounds like you better do something with that hose:rolleyes:
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Originally Posted by Ataim
I don't thing Bean's car does have heat anymore. In which case, he could bypass it all together.
Good call Ataim.
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Actually, it is the bypass hose...Quote:
Originally Posted by Radio-Active
I had the same concern about the heater hose being close to the header tube, so I got some Thermotec self adhesive wrap from Summit and put a bunch of it around the hose
http://store.summitracing.com/partde...5&autoview=sku
about $20 for enough to do a dozen cars
put some on lower radiator hose too
and on metal part of spec miata intake
So this stuff around the hose and the wrap on the header and all should be ok, eh? Good stuff!Quote:
Originally Posted by nealb