Anyone run AN coolant lines on the street? What size and any issues? Im looking at -16.
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I run -16 on my car with no troubles. What troubles I do have are airflow related.
I like them, not sure if I would do it again if i had to start over. They look nice, and there isn't much that can happen to them to make them come off. I know of more than one car that has a lost a radiator hose and hit the wall due to a headgasket loss or something else causing it.1968 Plymouth Barracuda Formula S 340 with a 360
1997 Jeep Cherokee off road toy/driver. lifted, lockers, stroked 4.0
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Originally posted by BlueCuda340 View PostI know of more than one car that has a lost a radiator hose and hit the wall due to a headgasket loss or something else causing it.Escaped on a technicality.
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Randall is right, I do run AN, radiator mounted Meziere pump with two outlets into each side of the belt drive 'timing cover'. Earl's black nylon braided.
However the outlet side is a very short piece of conventional Gates molded 1.5" hose from thermostat housing to the de-gas (surge tank) and another very short straight piece from the tank to the radiator inlet. No issues anywhere including 108* True Street deal at Famoso last year. I use Odeker clamps which really seal the conventional hose well. 22 lb. cap. Dual pass Afco radiator.Drag Week 2006 & 2012 - Winner Street Race Big Block Naturally Aspirated - R/U 2007 Broke DW '05 and Drag Weekend '15 Coincidence?
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I run a regular 1.5" hose to a moroso thermostat housing that converts to two -12an lines that connect to my intake. I wold have rather done without the -an lines but my intake only has NPT fittings in it that go straight to the water passages in the heads.-Jeff
Street car with a 5 speed, 427ci SBF 9.86 at 136mph
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2GKQ2xpZraU
I survived Drag Week 2013
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*thinking out loud here*
So by making the coolant lines that "bullet proof" what is the weak link in the chain??
would it be the radiator then..
I personally would rather try to find a replacement hose when I break down on the side of the road in the middle of "no where". Rather than trying to fix a blown seam in a radiator. unless we have beer cans, spray foam and Jeff with us!!Dan, Co-Pilot Drag Week 06
Drag Week '11 just Me and my Dad in my 53 Chevy, which was his Dads old truck
Drag Week '12 plus one day...Me and Dad in my 53 again....
Drag Week 2013 with my father in law.. New BEST ET/MPH 11.87@112
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Originally posted by LAGNAF View Postwould it be the radiator then..Escaped on a technicality.
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