Could i get some treatments folks have done tomake their heater hoses less "on top of everything" Here in NW Arkansas, it gets cold and we do need a heater, but those hoses are ugly at best. I'm thinking maybe running them down the front of the engine, along the oil pan and up the firewall??
arkansas, heat? Salt belt here, loose that heater core, just clutters everything up of coarse, I don't drive the car once the salt hit the ground
you run them that low there gonna be subjected to some serious engine and exhaust heat though. i guess if you converted everything to braided steel lines they'd fit in pretty well?
Whats wrong with running them along the top side of the pass valve cover? With the right length of hose you could probably run them one on top of the other and keep it real neat. Im sure you could get it neater than mine.
I never thought about hiding them but thats an interesting idea. It definitely would look better. Might look for some form of bendable hard tubing that you could run along the bottom. That way road debris would not cut through it. Stainless would be nice but hard to bend.
You always come up with ideas I like. Now I'm not going to be happy unless I do that to my car. Thankfully, I have access to a $22,000 Ercolina tubing bender and a good bit of experience running it.
I think that I'm going to go with the heater tubes like are found on the late model 5.0s. Two hard lines with bracket that bolts to either the valve cover or intake. Here is a pic of how they look at the back of the engine. Ths is in a 65 Mustang. - Matt
I have mine like Fish... however I would rather do something different as the close proximity to the carb bothers me. I work hard to keep heat out of my intake and carb, to run them on the manifold between the VC and carb just defeats that work. I like the idea of hardlines run down below, or even bulkheads behind the fender apron. Edit: How about running the hard lines down the intake like Fish, but since they are hard, you could run them tight and insulate them. Essentially hiding them, sorta, and making them tidy.
They did, but one was long and the other was quite a bit shorter. They are available aftermarket, but pretty expensive. While you should be able to find the late model one in a junkyard fairly cheap. - Matt
Plug changing... ...is not a speedy task as it is. I wouldn't want to have to deal with that in the way. Seth
Is there any reason the elbow behind the stat housing could not be relocated to the rear of the intake? Most aftermarket intakes have several threaded access points to the water passages, front and rear. That would put one hose VERY close to the firewall, and leave just one line to run from the front. Just a thought.
On Tammy's car I have two stainless steel lines that run parallel to the frame. No shock towers make this easy. The plan for the new car is to run the lines behind the inner fender and poke out even with the front of the engine. Haven't worked all the details out, I'm thinking of soldering extentions to the heater core and run them inbetween the A/C box and the fire wall. Then come out at the wheel side of the innerfender. I need to get this done so I can finish the A/C too.
