Diameter of the "Cursed water plug"
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Diameter of the "Cursed water plug"
I need to know the outside diameter of the water fitting at the back of the 1.6 head that has the rubber cap on it. Anyone?
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Some people have mentioned using a reducer in the heater hose in order to get the car to come up to temp properly. If we use the cursed water plug as the heater feed, would that be roughly the same thing? I remember someone else on here ran it off that port, and didn't have any issues with it. Not sure what combination of search terms would find that post though.
Some people have mentioned using a reducer in the heater hose in order to get the car to come up to temp properly. If we use the cursed water plug as the heater feed, would that be roughly the same thing? I remember someone else on here ran it off that port, and didn't have any issues with it. Not sure what combination of search terms would find that post though.
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I have, in the past, postulated that a restrictor might be inserted into this line when the heater core is removed entirely, not to ensure quick warm-up, but to prevent too much water from bypassing the radiator when the thermostat is open. The purpose here being simply to simulate the restriction of the now-absent heater core.
Adding additional restriction to this line when the heater core is still present, which would include taking water from the Cursed Water Plug to supply it, might well result in too little coolant flow through the engine when the thermostat is closed. This is, of course, only a guess. I have neither empirical data nor a comprehensive education in thermodynamics to back it up.
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Yup.
My understanding is that in the original (323 GTX) application, that port was used as a vent for a breather / oil seperator. It was NOT the turbo oil drain port. (The FWD/AWD engines had a different oil pan with an MSM-style oil return port on it.)
My understanding is that in the original (323 GTX) application, that port was used as a vent for a breather / oil seperator. It was NOT the turbo oil drain port. (The FWD/AWD engines had a different oil pan with an MSM-style oil return port on it.)
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you are correct joe, the FWD variant used a different pan with a drain. im trying my damdest to place this "big line with a cap near the oil filter" anyone have a picture?
on topic. with the FWD configuration of the coolant inlet and outlet we delete the heather core and just loop the lines with no ill effect even on the high HP guys. no clue if this helps.
on topic. with the FWD configuration of the coolant inlet and outlet we delete the heather core and just loop the lines with no ill effect even on the high HP guys. no clue if this helps.
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In North America, this appears only on the '90-'93 1.6l (B6) engine blocks. It is not present on the later engines. I have no idea whether the Jap / Euro 1.6 engines from '94 onward had it or not.
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