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| posted on August 3rd, 2006 at 09:08 PM |
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EJ Water manifold (reversed) into '78 Bay
Has anyone fitted a reversed water manifold into a late bay?
How did you get around the chassis member clearence prob?
I reversed mine and it fitted the engine a treat. Then I fitted the motor to the bus. The manifold fouls :cry
Is it only Bugs and T25s that run a reversed manifold?
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| posted on August 3rd, 2006 at 10:00 PM |
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My bus's wasn't reversed. It would have hit the chassis....
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| posted on August 4th, 2006 at 07:41 AM |
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Cheers Mick
I'd cut and turned it and it sat on the engine perfectly. It wasn't until fitting the engine that the problem showed. Grrr
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| posted on August 4th, 2006 at 08:18 AM |
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But i cheated....I paid someone to do my engine conversion so i wouldn't make those kind of mistakes!!!!!!
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| posted on August 4th, 2006 at 11:41 AM |
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| Quote: | Originally
posted by ElusiveStranger
Has anyone fitted a reversed water manifold into a late bay?
How did you get around the chassis member clearence prob?
I reversed mine and it fitted the engine a treat. Then I fitted the motor to the bus. The manifold fouls :cry
Is it only Bugs and T25s that run a reversed manifold?
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The reversed manifold is a natural for vanagons as it matches the stock watercooled configuration.
For bays, it seems that the stock water outlet works better. Just plumb it into a burp tank and from there to the radiator.
George
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| posted on August 4th, 2006 at 06:47 PM |
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The reversed manifold is a natural for vanagons as it matches the stock watercooled configuration.
For bays, it seems that the stock water outlet works better. Just plumb it into a burp tank and from there to the radiator.
George
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Thanks Guys.
George I did U2U you a while ago.
You asked about heating, check out Gerrelt's reply on http://www.vwkd.co.uk under
heating (I think) and then his link to his Alfa conversion site. Nice bit of work.
Also try a Google on Water Swirl Pots.
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| posted on August 5th, 2006 at 09:10 AM |
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posted by GeorgeL
(snip)
The reversed manifold is a natural for vanagons as it matches the stock watercooled configuration.
For bays, it seems that the stock water outlet works better. Just plumb it into a burp tank and from there to the radiator.
George
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Thanks Guys.
George I did U2U you a while ago.
You asked about heating, check out Gerrelt's reply on http://www.vwkd.co.uk under
heating (I think) and then his link to his Alfa conversion site. Nice bit of work.
Also try a Google on Water Swirl Pots.
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Thanks greatly for the links.
Water swirl pots seem to be really "foreign" technology here in the US, probably because most hot-rod applications here have nice tall radiators in
front. Your Google seach suggestion provided a number of UK sites that had nice examples.
I'll probably end up having a tank fabbed. Shouldn't be too much trouble for a competent radiator man.
Thanks, George
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| posted on August 5th, 2006 at 10:48 AM |
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Now I have to get a swirl pot for my bus, having just found out my rev manifold fouls my chassis, bugg3r. I hadn't heard of them before but I'm new
to cars (VeeDubs (cars) for 5 yrs & bikes for 20!)
I'm loving Helbus' conversion along with Surf & Swoosh.
I'm going for the underbody rad but using a Jag XK40 rad (cheers Rich Baker, I owe him beer)
It's good to share knowledge 
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| posted on August 7th, 2006 at 07:13 AM |
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Now I have to get a swirl pot for my bus, having just found out my rev manifold fouls my chassis, bugg3r. I hadn't heard of them before but I'm new
to cars (VeeDubs (cars) for 5 yrs & bikes for 20!)
I'm loving Helbus' conversion along with Surf & Swoosh.
I'm going for the underbody rad but using a Jag XK40 rad (cheers Rich Baker, I owe him beer)
It's good to share knowledge
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Here's a pic of the swirl pot I would like:
The only change I want it the lower fitting either go straight out the bottom or be rotated 90 degrees CCW, looking down on the pot. The vertical
arrangement will work a lot better for my early Bay.
George
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| posted on August 15th, 2006 at 07:36 AM |
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Well the hacksaw's been out again. It fits The manifold sits as
you'd expect but turns almost parallel to the block and points down to clear the chassis rail. Whoohoo
I have had to alter the heater return line to clear the new reversed manifold.
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