- #Bmw e36 mishimoto radiator hoses forum pdf#
- #Bmw e36 mishimoto radiator hoses forum mod#
- #Bmw e36 mishimoto radiator hoses forum mods#
#Bmw e36 mishimoto radiator hoses forum mods#
If your happy-ass mods spew water all over the track, you’re going to have some upset buddies. Then test your mods well before your next event.
Don’t monkey around with your cooling system until you have a coolant pressure switch. With a coolant pressure switch wired to a huge light right in front of your face, you can take your car on the track with a solution that is less bulletproof than the fabulous solution we’d all hoped for. It’s important to point out that having a coolant pressure switch is a huge comfort.
#Bmw e36 mishimoto radiator hoses forum mod#
Do better on how you mod the rad outlet and it will go easier for you. Much of my problems here was that I ended up with a rad outlet modified (pointed) in a direction that didn’t work as well as I’d thought it would, so I monkeyed around a lot trying to make the kludge work. I’m not saying the late cooling config can’t be done, if you were smart about it, you could do it just fine. I also played around with modifying the rad outlet, and I screwed around with hoses a bit trying to make it all work well.
This required cutting the late model steel coolant tube that is in front of the engine, a bit short. But the big doublepass aftermarket rad has the outlet several inches above bottom right. The OEM late model rad has the outlet at bottom right. 2x I set up a late config big aftermarket radiator, but each time it was kinda a pita. You’re going to find lots of triple pass radiators that match the early config, and double pass radiators that are similar to late config. Early model cooling has the outlet at bottom left. The design of our hood will allow a little more radiator height. The frame rails limit the radiator’s width. The outlet port is almost sure to be too big. Pick a rad based on it’s dimensions, port locations, and inlet port dia. They are available from circle track suppliers for $200ish. I’m told that this is a product of the DME retarding ignition timing. Based on experiments I watched Chuck Baader and Jim Levie conduct, hp starts dropping at about 204 deg.
#Bmw e36 mishimoto radiator hoses forum pdf#
They sell rubber hoses!” If you want to read some more on this, check out this PDF pamphlet from Gates Autralia.What drives this is that cool is fast. According to a Gates Corporation report, “Testing by Gates engineers shows that a Class 8 truck, operating at a temperature of 210☏ with a two shift per day driving cycle, would lose nearly five gallons of water each year if it was equipped with silicone hose.” FYI, Gates makes both rubber and silicone coolant hoses so hold off on the forum bullshit line of, “Well of course Gates made that report. What does that mean to you? It means with the daily heat cycling of a street driven car, that you will lose water from your cooling system over time. Here’s a fun fact: silicone’s water permeation rate is 15 times greater than EPDM rubber. While silicone radiator hoses are great, because they are capable of carrying much higher temperature fluids (max 350☏/177☌) than a standard EPDM rubber radiator hose (max 257☏/125☌), they are really only ideal for race cars. So I told them, add water regularly or stop your bitching and get some rubber hoses on the car. I can remember several occasions when people would tell me something like, “Dude I was driving the other day and my car started to boil over! I added 4 quarts of water to it! Did I lose a head gasket? Where the hell did the water go?” I would ask them if they had silicone radiator hoses and of course they would. Who knows how many of those “Samco” hoses are actually genuine? China is really hard at work these days with the counterfeit shit recently. If you look on eBay, there are about 15+ pages of shit brand silicone radiator hoses and probably 1 page of genuine Samco radiator hoses. I say similar because I am pretty damn sure any silicone hose from China is inferior to Samco’s. We can thank China for finally figuring out a silicone formula that is similar to Samco’s silicone turbo and radiator hoses. I noticed that there are more and more “manufacturers” of silicone radiator hoses. Silicone Radiator Hoses: Not for the Street