Best water feed and return possitions..?

[TRD3000GT]

Ok Im fitting up my new Oil and Water cooled turbo soon and was wondering if everyione agreed on the locations of the feeds and the return lines...

I was going to take a feed from the top radiator elbow pipe like most people do and for the return I was going to route it to one of the water pipes at the back of the engine..

Any views on the best return pipe to use? Also would I just T the water return in to the line with a t piece of pipe?

Any ideas?

:tumble:

[Lucifer]

Is the top rad elbow not hot water? Ie uncooled?

[JohnK]

Thats where the stock tubbies get there feed from. Return is on a metal pipe near the bulkhead IIRC.

Id use those.

[TRD3000GT]

Is the top rad elbow not hot water? Ie uncooled?

Not sure... I thought it was but Im not sure, Most people seem to take the water feed from that elbow

:shrug:

[Lucifer]

Most prob correct, but I wondered why, maybe the water is too cold from the bottom.

[migster]

Most prob correct, but I wondered why, maybe the water is too cold from the bottom.


The top elbow is not a feed it's the return for hot water to the rad ;)

And there is a lovely little feed already sitting there since you are single thats been capped of for the feed;)

Originaly for stock tubbies the 2 ports on the top elbow where for return and the port on the pump ( capped for single) and the samller ID port on the rear steel pipe ( also capped for single) were the feeds for no 1 and no 2 turbos respectively.

HTH

[Sharpie]

part in quesiton ?

[migster]

part in quesiton ?


Is the water return elbow.

[TRD3000GT]

Great.. Well I can use the elbow as a return and then use a feed that was blocked off from the water pump.

:)