8 replies to this topic

[wobblybob]

ive not got a heater for my project car and im not toing to be putting one in as i never use them anyways, just wondering what i need to do, is it a case of just putting blanking plate on the cylinder head? what do i do with the hoses?? where do i re-route them to?

thanks kev!

[stormduck]

minispares sell a blanking plate for the heater tap on the cylinder head.

[wobblybob]

can make a plate at work, just wondering if theres anything else i need to do?

[minislapper]

Join the pipes together.

[Dan]

Yeah, I would leave the pipe coming out of the head and run it through a small auxiliary rad (use a heater core strapped into the grille or buy the genuine ERA auxiliary rad which is still available and fits well) before running it back to the bottom hose. Getting heat out of that end of the engine is very beneficial to it and in a race car it'll help a lot.

But if you do blank it off, remove the hoses altogether and get the early bottom hose without the heater port, the heater was originally optional so there's a bottom hose without a connector for it available.

Clicky. There's the genuine auxiliary rad, as you can see it has a groove at the bottom (it's the wrong way around in the photo) which fits over the flange at the bottom of the grille aperture on the left where the heater duct should be, and a single bolt hole at the top which secures it to the front panel. Easy to fit and quite useful. Pricey though, and a heater core would be cheaper and can easily be adapted to fit.

Edited by Dan, 19 March 2006 - 02:28 PM.

[wobblybob]

so the small rad would basically take the place of the heater box??(obviously not in the car lol), what shop can i buy an ERA rad from looked but cant find one?

[Dan]

There's a link to one in my post!

[Turbo Nick]

the way i used to pipe mine when i ditched the heater was to use an old bottom hose cut down in length in place of the top hose, then i connected the hose from the heater tap into it. worked a treat and helped with the cooling around number 4.

[wobblybob]

There's a link to one in my post!

lol o sorry thought that was just anotehr rad and not the ERA one, hmmm pricey