Lonnie-S wrote:
@turbo_bird
I've got a dumb question, Kristian. I see there is a radiator cap on the thermostat housing on the block itself (never seen that before). That's your low pressure one, right? But, why couldn't you run a "remote fill" from your radiator to somewhere just behind your fiberglass nose cone, so you don't have to jack the car up each time? Wouldn't a high pressure cap on the remote fill do the same thing, except it would be higher than everything else in the cooling system? That way, when you're filling from zero (not when hot, I realize) it would be easier.
Cheers,
The reason I have to jack up the side of the car is to get the rad cap on the radiator high enough to get the air out of the radiator. I didn't think through my mounting very well. The radiator being leans back like it is traps air in the top tank. And to get the rad in the nose cone I had to turn it sideways, so the rad cap is on the side of the rad rather than on top. If I ever build another locost, that's one of the things I want to change.
Kristian
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