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coyoteboy

posted on 7/9/11 at 06:57 PM Reply With Quote
Heater hose - WTB?

Looking for 22mm heater hose reasonably cheap, best I've found so far is about £7 per metre from unknown slightly dodgy looking online shops. Not looking for silicone hoses, no need - it's just the intercooler coolant circuit. Found a place for cheap (£15 each! ) 32-22mm elbows now so only the black hoses to get before I get my power back!
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stevegough

posted on 7/9/11 at 07:21 PM Reply With Quote
Local scrappy..... I got a handfull (mainly saxo ones) for less than a tenner.





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mark chandler

posted on 7/9/11 at 07:55 PM Reply With Quote
run it in copper, just solder olives when you need local rubber connections.
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coyoteboy

posted on 7/9/11 at 08:00 PM Reply With Quote
Hmmm interesting. I probably could do it in copper but it is a bit excessively bendy - it's an odd route! I like the thinking though and have access to 22mm pipe, I'll look again and think!
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rachaeljf

posted on 7/9/11 at 10:23 PM Reply With Quote
Why such large hose for the charge cooler? The fact you need 13-22 mm elbows might hint at a more appropriate hose size. I'm using 13 mm on my 190 bhp turbo car.

Cheers R

Edit - are you using a circulating pump with 22 mm outlets?

[Edited on 7/9/11 by rachaeljf]

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coyoteboy

posted on 8/9/11 at 10:02 AM Reply With Quote
The whole chargecooler system runs on 22mm hose matey, the core, the pump - all of which are OEM parts. And I'm pushing 350hp through it which was exceeding the capability of the pre-rad, so it now has an audi main engine rad up front with 33mm exits

The plan being to have a larger overall volume of water and a slower flowrate through a larger twin-pass radiator to cool the water better.
Check out the pump size
http://imageshack.us/photo/my-images/67/73585577.jpg/

[Edited on 8/9/11 by coyoteboy]

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coyoteboy

posted on 8/9/11 at 11:45 AM Reply With Quote
Gone through fleabay eventually, accepted defeat. Local motor factors all looked at me like I was nuts and generally returned the comment "we've not been asked for that for about 10 years, binned the last roll!".
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