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Originally Posted by not_hans_stuck
I just sat down to order the hose clamps. I'm going to use those new Gates SB PowerGrips. I hate the look of jubilee clips; with the hose protruding through the little slots for the screwdrive and the unused end just hanging out there, I think they look terrible.
That's when I realized, I don't actually know what size they are. I'll have to go to the shop tomorrow. I think it's either 1 1/4" or 1 1/8". But whatever they are, they match the ends on the Meziere water pump.
I'm currently conflicted about what to do. Renegade gave me enough Gates Green Stripe to plumb the whole car, but I thought I might fab up some aluminum pipes to run the length of the car instead. But a friend that builds race cars and he says they'll crack as they vibrate and I should use stainless steel. But I don't want to use stainless steel because I'm worried about the electrolytic effect of connecting two different metals by an electrolyte (the coolant).
Dunno. I'll guess I'll use the Green Stripe. It's cheap and I have it already.
Renegade runs theirs down both sides of the car. I think I'm going to run both pipes down the same side of the car though. There's a really big speed bump in the alley behind my house. The car always scrubs it. If both pipes are on one side, I could always put that one side in the center gap of the speed bump and scrub the other side - the one without hoses.
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There are three sizes of hoses. 5/8", 1" and 1 1/4". The long runners are 1 1/4" and that's what feeds into the radiator at the front, the F-pipe at the back and the water pump outlet. The 1" hose conencts the water pump block offs to the water pump and F-pipe. The 5/8" is the heater hose. It run a couple of different places - from the F-pipe to the filler neck. From the filler neck to the, uh, ummm. I'll get back to you.
I'm blocking off all the passenger car crap. So no coolant through the throttle body. Only one PCV takeoff feeding to the throttle body. Just decluttering. And since the car isn't a daily driver and it doesn't snow in Houston, none of it seems particularly salient to me.
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