Installed Wednesday and it barely finished bleeding late yesterday. I can drive around in 80 degree weather and even do a few 80mph pulls and it is barely even warm! I love it and highly recommend it to anyone. Thank Mr-Slowbalt for a damn good product!

 

On a scale of 1-10 how hard was this mod? I'll be doing this to my shitbalt over the course of this summer

 

was a 6 for me...only really hard part is bleeding it and takin the bumper off..everything else is simple bolt on action

 

Well I left my bumber on for the install. However I would give it a 7 cause getting the stock hoses off was by far the hardest part and I cannot stress how important it is to have a friend to help you. I am running the cobra along with the stocker. And I didnt see spending 30$ for mounting brakets so I just got a 2" piece of flat steel and bent it and it worked great and only cost 5.00 dollars.

I will get some pics up of the bracket's if you guys want them.

 

Morning bump.

 

just finished installing mine aswell, didnt take the bumper off but yeah mine is still bleeding out, the fluid getts a little low everyonce in a while , so i top it off each time, keep water in the car

 

Yea, mine took about 4 days to completley bleed also.

 

yeah even while bleeding though you can see the temps drop so much quicker

 

Yea they drop off rite away. Do you know when our thermostat opens?

 

the thermo does have to do with the heat exchanger, thats a sperate system

 

Oh, I though it came on and released the coolant to the heat exchanger's.

 

nah, thats the pump, from what i understand the pump is on low at idle then when you go it starts circulating the coolant better, not rpm dependent but more like a switch from low to high, thats how i take it. someone correct me if im wrong

 

As far as I know, the water pump increases proportionally to the engine rpm since it's connected by a belt...unless our is totally different, which I doubt. Thermostats generally open around 85şC to 95şC. I'm currently working in a division of Magna that assembles and tests prototype water pumps...<sarcasm starts>I love it soo much!!<sarcasm ends>

 

this is entirely different.

this is an electric pupm for the heat exchanger cooling system

 

Sorry, I stand corrected.

 

I was pretty sure that the coolant only circulated when the thermo opened but I am not sure now???

 

Just not the same when they aren't polished....

 

I don't like the polished look on my car.

 

the engine cooling system is a seperate system from the heat excahmger coolant system. they do not come together at all. the engine coolant system has a belt(timing) driven pump and a thermostat that lets the coolant circulate through the engine, heater hoses and radiator. however the heat exchanger system works off an electric pump that circulates a seperate amount of coolant throught the lumanova in the intake manifold, heat exchanger and lines.

 

Ahh I C

 

I spies wit' my eyes.... ZIP TIES!

 

psshh, naaa not me.

Do you know any other way to do it Mdub cause if there is I would love to give it a try. I know welding but I am not that good with aluminum.

 

I just did my h/e a couple weeks ago! Just fuggin' with ya!

 

Did you also use zip ties?

 

Newp... I didn't... You has a PM sir!