This video is intended to show that it's not the end of the world when you have to lose parts from the engine bay to make room for other mods. Might as well have fun with it. It might be a temporary solution until I find something else with the appropriate bling factor, but it's damn cool and a cheap solution until I get to that point. It's about .00 and a mighty tasty treat before the bottle gets re-tasked. After consumption, some people see garbage, I see a perfectly good car part. So this is what I did to straighten out my coolant overflow bottle problem. The old bottle was inadequate by design, and sitting too low to function properly. It only vented one way, and because the bottle wasn't air-tight, it allowed air to get sucked back into the coolant system as the hot engine cooled. Air prevented the coolant system from being efficient and triggered a boil-over situation any time the engine was under load at operating temperature. That's what happened on the dyno. All my head gasket tests came back negative for failures, and nothing was leaking anywhere else... nor is it leaking any more since installing this at the proper height. I used a Mega Monster can, and fabbed mounting bracket out of some spare 16 gauge steel I had laying around. She's ready for action. PS: The iMac... that thing's hilarious. I have 2 unsupported software installs on it to serve my needs for a garage computer. It's just a 450MHz G3, 512 MB of RAM, and a wireless card. It has OS X 10.4.11 as ...
Keywords: Jafro, GSX, Mitsubishi, 4g63, turbo, Mega, Monster, coolant, overflow, bottle, Eclipse, Talon, Laser, GVR-4, Eagle, Plymouth, race, racing
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