has anyone modified or removed their heater tubes?

[rockin_rick]

I'm talking about the hard tube assembly that runs from the front of the intake to the back to connect with the heater core.

Has anyone replaced it with fittings and longer hoses? Got any pics? How was the routing?

Thanks,
Rick

 

[95strokerPSU]

urban96 removed his tubes all together. Hopefully he'll see this.

 

[urban96]

ya i took mine completely out and used some brass fittings from home depot to plug up the hole and move the sensor

my heater core is shot tho so there was no point in running lines to it.

if you wanted to just run soft lines instead of the hardlines you could cut down the length of the hardline and use long hoses

 

[95cobradude]

i got rid of my heat as well, i put a new edelbrock intake on and was looking to clean up the look in there. i ordered all the fittings and it came out perfect.

 

[Jackie Chan]

mine are gone as well

 

[CManT1914]

I think Brandon (bjl95mustang) replaced his with soft hoses. I'm sure he has some pics as well.

 

[R.J.]

Brandon: can we get some pics? Where did you route them?

 

[WhiteDevil]

Yeah when the engine is out this coming summer i am planning on deleting those too and using soft lines instead. I would love some pics as well.

 

[VibrantRedGT]

Mine are deleted as well. Keeps the lower intake so fresh and so clean clean.

 

[rockin_rick]

Well, I want to keep my heat, as I'm not as lucky as some of you southerners....

I noticed that the smaller 5/8" pipe on the heater core runs to the water pump's 3/4" fitting. How did you deal with this transition? Use a 5/8" hose and a 3/4" hose and put a 5/8" to 3/4" adapter fitting somewhere inline of that hose, or just use a 3/4" hose and just 'clamp it down good' on the 5/8" heater core fitting?

(In the stock setup, the S shaped hose that runs from the heater core to the pipe is 5/8", but is formed/expanded to 3/4" for the heater pipe).

Well, I bought some fittings and when I get it installed I'll post pics of my setup in this thread.

Rick

 

[urban96]

just clamp it down good

 

[Green 94 5.0]

mine are being removed completely as well when i bolt everything back together. can you post some pics on where you moved the sensor to urban96?

 

[95cobradude]

u can leave the coolant temp sensor in the same spot in the passenger front of the manifold if u get a 1/2 to 3/8 pipe thread adapter, summit racing has it for 7 bucks.

 

[urban96]

u can leave the coolant temp sensor in the same spot in the passenger front of the manifold if u get a 1/2 to 3/8 pipe thread adapter, summit racing has it for 7 bucks.

thats what i did, home depot has em for like $2-3 tho

 

[bjl95mustang]

I cut the metal tubes off of mine and just left enough tube so I could get some hose on there and clamp it on. I will try to take a pic later.

Has worked well so far.