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4AGE Silvertop Plumbing
czntiger6 - 15/12/06 at 08:48 PM

Anyone has a diagram how the waterhoses on a 4AGE Silvertop are done (or an tell me how to install the hoses0?

Thanks!


bimbleuk - 16/12/06 at 06:39 AM

Hopefully this picture will help. I would take a better one except my car is in bits while I swap to a modded Silvertop. The picture is of a Blacktop but they are the same.

Basically The hose on the side of the head goes to the top of the radiator. The larger hose on the water block (bolted to the rear of the head) is the return from the radiator.

That leaves two smaller heater matrix hoses. As I don't have a screen I just connect the higher of them to the expansion tank. The other one which is hiden on this picture is simply blocked.

The top water temp sensor is connected to my ECU. The rear temp sensor again hidden in this picture connects to my dash gauge. The rear most temp sensor, on the right in this picture, can be used but its on the wrong side of the thermostat. its connected in this picture but I don't use it anymore.

If that isn't clear I can add labels to the picture later.

Silvertop 4AGE 20V, coolant plumbing
Silvertop 4AGE 20V, coolant plumbing


thomas4age - 16/12/06 at 04:14 PM

you could also T the two heater hoses together with the tank hose, that way you always have full flow through the head, some people state that that would be better, don't know completly why though maybe hotspots???. I had a tee piece lying around so I plumbed it in like that.
there's one advantage on doing it like this, if fills up with coolant a lot quicker!

grtz Thomas


bimbleuk - 17/12/06 at 07:45 AM

I'll have a look later a the water block and see if theirs any advantage to doing that. It would get rid of the unsightly blocked hose at least.


czntiger6 - 17/12/06 at 11:19 AM

Thanks guys, this helps me get further on...


czntiger6 - 17/12/06 at 11:21 AM

P.s. I like the expansion tank on the picture... where can I get on of these? On mine the return hose is very small (might get too much pressure!?!?!?!


bimbleuk - 17/12/06 at 03:17 PM

Hi that tank is the standard RAW Engineering header for the Striker kit car. If you haven't noticed from the picture the tank is sat on a 45 deg slope so its not square more a triangular wedge shape.

www.rawstriker.co.uk