[Shotimes] Re: Heater host Q

[Ron Porter]

Eliminating the TB water will make it much easier to get air out of the
cooling system, as that TB area is the high point of the cooling system.

It's not necessarily a cold climate thing. Once the car is hot, the TB gets
enough heat from the engine, anyway.

Wish I would have saved the article, but the TB water is to cover one or two
very unusual circumstances that can occur just after cold starts (remember
the water doesn't get hot for a few minutes, anyway). It was something like
having a car in a cool garage, then driving it out into warm, humid air (as
you would have in a southern climate), and there was another situation that
I don't recall.

Remember that the car makers have to make products that work well in all
climates and all altitudes. Some of the seemingly weird stuff they sometimes
do is to allow for some unorthodox operating situations somewhere in their
market area.

Ron Porter

-----Original Message-----
From: shotimes-admin@autox.team.net [mailto:shotimes-admin@autox.team.net]
On Behalf Of Edward Mazurek
Sent: Saturday, August 23, 2003 7:24 PM
To: bobsteig@att.net
Cc: shotimes@autox.team.net
Subject: [Shotimes] Re: Heater host Q


In warmer climates it's probably OK to do this. In colder climates I guess
the TB could ice up if the conditions were right.

I'm sure others have more empirical information though.

Ed

bobsteig@att.net wrote:

>Hi,
>
>What's the story with this, how can you get away w/o these hoses? Is there
an 
>advantage to bypassing the TB? (by TB I'm guessing you mean throttle body) 
>Does it make it easier to drain and replace the coolant? What about 
>overheating the top end? I've seen this mentioned before and got curious. 
>
>Thanks, BB-NYC '89
>
>
>emazurek@cisco.com>, <shotimes@autox.team.net>
>Subject: Re: [Shotimes] Heater host Q
>Date: Sat, 23 Aug 2003 10:54:12 -0500
>
>  As far as the TB and IAC hoses just chuck them and put
>a piece that runs from the coolant pipe back to the block....
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