Don B would be best to answer this as I believe he has been doing some intensive research into swirl pots on the 205.
I think he even has a prototype being made . . . but don't quote me on that.
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| Author: | Midnite [ Sun Jun 11, 2006 4:30 pm ] |
| Post subject: | Swirl pot for cooling |
does anybody use one of these? i know it fits in the top hose and vents air out of the cooling system hose. question is where too? on a ford rs cosworth they use a closed header tank to feed the rad and the cap is fitted to the header tank. the gtfour uses a rad cap on the rad with an over flow pipe too a catch tank so where would you run the swirl pot top pipe too? an addon tank? |
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| Author: | Loosey [ Sun Jun 11, 2006 7:35 pm ] |
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Don B would be best to answer this as I believe he has been doing some intensive research into swirl pots on the 205.
I think he even has a prototype being made . . . but don't quote me on that.
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| Author: | two_OH_five [ Sun Jun 11, 2006 7:48 pm ] |
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You need to add a header tank into the system, it's the onlt way forward A good location (if you don't have ABS) is the spot where the ABS pump would go. A simple closed header tank goes here. To this you connect the top "vent" of your swirl pot as well as a connection from the radiator overflow hose (the overflow bottle is ditched) You then Y the bottom of the header feeds bacl into the bottom radiator tank If you have an alloy rad then there are other possibilities, as demonstrated on the WRC cars They use the (metal) radiator and a 'slightly modified' metal piped cooling system routing to provide natural air collection points without using swirl pots. This still requires a header tank however There are other spots that the tank can go but the ABS pump location is favorite as it's a convenient connection spot for the feed back into the system. The other requirement is that the top of the header tank needs to be above the highest point in the cooling system (top of the rad) Other options would be on the bulkhead somewhere - the tank does not need to be huge, a liter should suffice but bigger is better 
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