Moving to the other side of the car, my focus turned to the water system. I have previously shown pictures of the buck for the duct etc, but now it was time for the final fit. After removing the cooler and grinding/filing the louvres out properly, which I advise anyone to do outside as the amount of dust such a small amount of grinding seems to make is inexplicable, I bolted it all back together. The pipes are the standard silicone type that you can get from anywhere, these are from raceparts as they give me a good deal on everything! Now, lots of people seem to run the whole system in the silicone pipe, but really you should run as much as possible in something like ally pipe, as when the water gets hot it doesnt expand nearly as much as the silicone stuff!
I then riveted on the duct on the lower return. I also bolted through the duct to the top of the rad, you can just about see this bolt above the front outlet. This has always been the idea to help support the cooler, so much so that when I got it made I got them to put in the boss for this bolt, however there is no such support at the bottom, but I hope this will be OK. It should be ….
Once it was all on the car, and the body now finally bolted down 
, this was the view from the front wheel arch, although it wont be by the time the car is finished…
I then started to plumb up the rad. Below was the first mock up of the pipe from radiator outlet to pump inlet. I have made this now, from the 3 45 degree bends with ally tube used to join them. I then planned the rest of the lines, but I need to get an adapter to go from 25mm to 30mm, but I will order that later this week.
Tags: Cooling System
