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My new aluminum heads don't have the holes where the sensor would normally go on the drivers side. No place on the intake manifold either.

 

I'm thinking of putting it into a brass tee inline in the 3/4" heater hose close to the intake manifold.

 

Good place? It may read a few * low.

 

BBP

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Chris, a water neck like that wouldn't show the correct temperature with the thermostat closed.

 

My 3/4 heater hose off the intake has flow to the heater even if thermostat is closed. As I said above, there are no sensor holes available.

 

The engine is assembled & I don't want to drill & tap, IMO too big a risk for introducing chips into coolant passages.

 

Intake is like an Edelbrock Air Gap, but for for their Pro-Flo EFI

 

Bones, that's a nice looking one, $92.95 at Summit

 

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I found it to cure my own problem, my Brodix intake doesn't accept a thermostat, so I needed a way to incorporate one, and the bonus is the two ports just below the stat, perfect location for my stat for the electric fans to boot grin

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Mikstudie,

 

How does your sensor read the correct temperature when the thermostat below it is closed?

 

I like the diamond plate & will put one on mine. I will mount some stuff there, like the bottom of my DIY shroud & maybe a couple remote oil filters.

 

I found a more reasonably priced spacer. $39.39

http://store.summitracing.com/partdetail.asp?part=MEZ-WN0028U

 

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oic.. i'm guessing mikestudie might have only his electric fan sensor there? in which case that's fine, because the fans won't do anything if the t-stat isn't open anyway!!!

I Can't see mike's pic cuz the website squashed it so badly

i ASSumed mike was using what sam showed.

 

 

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