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As you may notice there is a couple of coolant lines running to the throttle body. Now these are there to allow the throttle body to warm up when it's icy. The down side is when the coolant heats up your really just adding temperature to your intake. It's probably not a lot, but why add more heat if you don't have to.
Since it doesn't tend to snow in Sydney I figured I would remove the lines which in theory will then provide more power since the intake is cooler...
Tools required:
Pliers to remove hose clamps
Screw Driver to tighten up new hose clamps
Parts required:
House clamps (while you could use the old ones, for the few $$ they cost it's worth replacing them)
House Joiner.
I bypassed the TB and joined the existing hoses, this allows me to reconnect later if for some reason I need to. If you wanted to be really neat (and I will one day) you need to get a replacement hose for the one that runs from the engine to the heater core which doesn't have the extra piece, then you can delete all the excess piping.
For those that are a little lost, the two pipes in the centre of this photo run off to the throttle body on the left:
One runs from the expansion tank (just out of shot on the right) the other comes off one of the large pipes that run into the heater core. As above, you can either join these or get some new pipes and delete the line entirely.
Close up of where they run into the TB:
The process is very simple, remove the pipe from teh TB:
Then use a joiner and some clamps:
I then cable tied the pipe up out of the way so it doesn't fall onto the down pipes/exhaust:
When I was doing this I noticed that my crank vent hose (which replaced a busted PVC) was a little cracked and allowing air into the intake past the MAF.
I keep considering an oil catch can, but since I'm feeling a little poor at the moment I decided to go the cheap option instead and plugged the intake and threw on one of these:
The end results... well the car still runs. I can't say I notice a difference, but then I didn't expect massive changes from the coolant bypass. It's one of those small things you do because you can. I'm suprised the extra unmetered air wasn't causing issues but then there is a slight chance that it was *almost* busted and my jiggling did it in...
Anyway, it's all back together and running well. On a side note, there is still nothing quite like that glorious noise
Since it doesn't tend to snow in Sydney I figured I would remove the lines which in theory will then provide more power since the intake is cooler...
Tools required:
Pliers to remove hose clamps
Screw Driver to tighten up new hose clamps
Parts required:
House clamps (while you could use the old ones, for the few $$ they cost it's worth replacing them)
House Joiner.
I bypassed the TB and joined the existing hoses, this allows me to reconnect later if for some reason I need to. If you wanted to be really neat (and I will one day) you need to get a replacement hose for the one that runs from the engine to the heater core which doesn't have the extra piece, then you can delete all the excess piping.
For those that are a little lost, the two pipes in the centre of this photo run off to the throttle body on the left:
One runs from the expansion tank (just out of shot on the right) the other comes off one of the large pipes that run into the heater core. As above, you can either join these or get some new pipes and delete the line entirely.
Close up of where they run into the TB:
The process is very simple, remove the pipe from teh TB:
Then use a joiner and some clamps:
I then cable tied the pipe up out of the way so it doesn't fall onto the down pipes/exhaust:
When I was doing this I noticed that my crank vent hose (which replaced a busted PVC) was a little cracked and allowing air into the intake past the MAF.
I keep considering an oil catch can, but since I'm feeling a little poor at the moment I decided to go the cheap option instead and plugged the intake and threw on one of these:
The end results... well the car still runs. I can't say I notice a difference, but then I didn't expect massive changes from the coolant bypass. It's one of those small things you do because you can. I'm suprised the extra unmetered air wasn't causing issues but then there is a slight chance that it was *almost* busted and my jiggling did it in...
Anyway, it's all back together and running well. On a side note, there is still nothing quite like that glorious noise
nice one.
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