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Old Mar 6, 2023 | 12:32 PM
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Default Coolant flow for race engine

Just hoping that someone can advise me on this please?
My race car has no heater and a non water cooled turbo so I blanked the outlets in the crossover pipe, head, header tank and water pump but have had problems bleeding the coolant system, question is what is the best way to resolve this? Fit take offs to both heads and return to the water pump? OR? How have other people plumbed the coolant system?
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Old Mar 6, 2023 | 12:53 PM
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The coolant goes round the heater matrix first then down to the thermostat housing iirc. That circulates the coolant round the matrix till the coolant heats up enough to open the stat then it circulates through the rad. You'd be better looping the two matrix pipes together unless you want to make major ish changes to the system.
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Originally Posted by Don Clark
Saved me alot of typing. My favourite hobby
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Old Mar 6, 2023 | 09:23 PM
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Originally Posted by Don Clark
This will be a great help, thanks.
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