Throttle Body Bypass pipe
Posted: Sun Jan 15, 2017 9:51 am
Hi all, I am newbie to forum and have just registered a V8 Dax Rush back in November
Quick and hopefully fairly straight forward question for my first post, I currently have my heater feed pipe from the inlet manifold capped off but have an 8mm pipe from the manifold(opposite side) feeding the throttle body linked back to near the pump inlet bypassing the radiator. As I have just had the car register I am venturing out in the cold and can see from the temperature gauge that the thermostat is doing its job and holding at around 88D. I am just a bit concerned that with the thermostat just on the boarder of open and shut is that I don't have enough flow through the engine.
I have a couple of options;
1) Leave as is assuming correct bypass flow through 8mm throttle body link.
2) By pass throttle body with the same setup.
3) Link heater feed to near pump inlet bypassing radiator. Problem with this is that most of the flow could bypass the radiator as the heater feed pipe is around 16mm. Also the thermostat only really has a 18mm flow hole when open. The Thermostat currently has a 3mm hole for air, this could be drilled to say 6mm?
I have read a number of threads but none saying the bypass was through the throttle body.
Any comments will be much appreciated.
Quick and hopefully fairly straight forward question for my first post, I currently have my heater feed pipe from the inlet manifold capped off but have an 8mm pipe from the manifold(opposite side) feeding the throttle body linked back to near the pump inlet bypassing the radiator. As I have just had the car register I am venturing out in the cold and can see from the temperature gauge that the thermostat is doing its job and holding at around 88D. I am just a bit concerned that with the thermostat just on the boarder of open and shut is that I don't have enough flow through the engine.
I have a couple of options;
1) Leave as is assuming correct bypass flow through 8mm throttle body link.
2) By pass throttle body with the same setup.
3) Link heater feed to near pump inlet bypassing radiator. Problem with this is that most of the flow could bypass the radiator as the heater feed pipe is around 16mm. Also the thermostat only really has a 18mm flow hole when open. The Thermostat currently has a 3mm hole for air, this could be drilled to say 6mm?
I have read a number of threads but none saying the bypass was through the throttle body.
Any comments will be much appreciated.