installing new water tanks

The billet bracket moves the bottles to side by side where the current overflow bottle is located. This means a) you can cut out the current pressure and overflow bottle straps and b) there will be new hose runs required to reach the new location.

Here's an older photo of my GT5 with relocated bottles, not too good quality but you get the jist.

Julian

Thanks Julian,
The photo seems to have got lost in the Pacific.

is it just the hoses that need replacing or do we need new pipes as well.

Cheers Chris

thats the internet for you. just after I sent the reply your photo down loaded thanks
Cj

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Originally posted by cjkiwi:
thats the internet for you. just after I sent the reply your photo down loaded thanks
Cj

Hey its a long swim!

Here's a shot of my PreCision ProFormance Botles in the installation process. Shows the "Exact" placement. Hope this helps you.

Dave # 3463

Dave,

Nice, did Precision Proformance supply that modiifed water tube as well?

Julian

Thanks Dave big help.Appears you left the old block in place that held the expantion tank did you mount to this or under it. if so did you remove the threaded studs that held the clamp on. Next ? did you drill all the way throught the rail into the wheel well to bolt on the billet bracket?

Cheers and Thanks guys

cj

Julian and CJ,

My polished tubes are from PreCision as well. They were cut/re-welded to fit as the "aim" was off. (While we were at it we installed 2 petcocks in the undercar tubes for drainage.)

Note the pic > mounting placement. Cut the old block out, placed and then bolted through the fenderwell.

Dave

Re the 'aim' of the upper water pipe being off: I've seen this li'l problem surface on more than one vendor's upper pipe assembly. The angle needed to line up with the tank inlet will depend a lot on engine placement; if your car allows a big-cap distributor, the set-back of that engine will necessarily be different than another car in which there's no room for a big-cap distributor. So the water-pipe angle changes. A simpler solution to cutting, welding and re-polishing the pipe might be to drill multiple mount hoses in the tank brackets, as engine height won't change, only fore-and-aft placement. But this fix will depend on the design of each vendor's mount bracket. Maybe an 'adapter bracket' between main bracket & body, as seems to be shown in one photo, would work?

HI Jack long time no talk.
Re the top pipe. I spoke to Don From Precision yesterday. The just make a standard stainless pipe. ie the same shape as original. then cut and weld to suit due to dif mounting positions.
Thnaks to all for input.
cheers Cj

Instead of cutting/rewelding, why not just use a piece of aeroquip hose. Exhaust systems have been using them for quite a while to tie the y pipe to the exhaust tube on FWD cars.

You need to do this on the undercarriage pipes and the connection to the tank anyway. Why not just put one more up on top?

The twisting motion of the motor in it's mounts would be amplified at the end of your rigid water outlet tube versus the fixed mounting of your tank on the body.

I would think you'd want a slightly longer flexible hose between them to avoid stressing the pipes and connections.