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[minipip]

ok after reading the post on heated inlet manifolds, and the major drop in tempreture, how can i go about plumming mine in!?!? its proberly a reallllly rookie question but i still beleve myself to be a nebie to the a-series, im running a 1980 so i still have the old style heater tap, and i cant think of how to take it from the main cooling system?!
oh and to add i like pictures! they help me lots!
help will be much aprichated as it will be another job on my list of things to do just b4 hes back on the road...

[fikus01]

easiest way is probably to remove the pipe from the heater outlet on the head and put it on the drivers side of the manifold!! shud go sraight on!!

then run a new bit of hose from the heater tap round to the other end of the manifold!! seems a bit awkward! to make it look tidier you could possibly re-rout it with copper pipe bends or something similar!!

just doing it this way everything should come undone ok, minimal changes to the car and you only have to buy 1 length of pipe!

[Jammy]

Its really not needed. I didn't have mine connected last year and it was fine. Its only really needed when the ambient temp drops below freezing regularly.

[fikus01]

jammy if i can find my vizzard book and copy out what is writtn in there then i will and i'll post it!! as i said in the other post its not required but it helps!! if you're not having any trouble at all its possible that you're fuel mixture is running a little rich! just enough so that the engine wont notice it when its lost the fuel that sticks to the inlet manifold!!

[minipip]

Its really not needed. I didn't have mine connected last year and it was fine. Its only really needed when the ambient temp drops below freezing regularly.

im just thinking as i live on the coast and the winters have been getting colder and colder, just as a precaution i would like to plumb it in.

[Big_Adam]

i did. seems fine to me. i like on the coast also. so it gets fecking freezing here.

just do it man! you can always take it off again.

[minipip]

we got any piccy layouts i can follow, i can get what u mean by jut taking off the tap and straight to the manny, but i cant thing of a route bback from the manny to the tap?!?!?!?!?!?!?!?

[Big_Adam]

what i did was take the pipe off the tape and connect that to the driver side of the manifold.

then another length of pipe to the orignal heater tap from the passenger side of the manifold. used a p clip on the carb to hold the pipe in place.

its the easyest way and vitural no fluid loss.

[minipip]

yes i know this much but im trying to find a picture of what it should look like, as in which route it should take from the passenger side of the manny to the tap, i have already been told this is the best way to do it, i just need a picture of what it should look like as visual reasurance for me.

[Big_Adam]

riight......

[Retro_10s]

Like this is what i think you mean.

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Edited by Retro_10s, 25 October 2006 - 03:55 PM.

[Bungle]

doesnt get cold in cornwall

[Tomf]

Mine has been done but it didnt do it so i duno how its done really

But from looking at it there is another bracker coming off the head underneeth the original radiator brakcer then hoses coming off that bracker going the the inlet.

Hope i might be going over to thanet tomurow so if i do i could robs pop over to you abd show you. But thats no definate yet.

Edit: ok you cant acctually see it in the pic much at all but its raining now so ill try and get some better pics when the weather gets better.

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Edited by Tomf, 25 October 2006 - 04:21 PM.

[1984mini25]

When I get round to fitting my stage one kit, I was planning on pluming it in like this using t piece connectors of the hoses already there.

[Retro_10s]

would the flow work?