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>>28830966
>>Your Honda Miata doesn't belong here.
Good thing mine's a plastic Mazda. What's happened lads? Has CCG all rusted away?

>>28831664
either waiting on parts, shop(s) to finish reconditioning bits of the car, or getting paperwork sorted
just had my radiator cleaned out so gonna do a test drive once the peak hour traffic dies down a bit

>>28831686
whew. radiator is much much better, handles the highway like a champ now. saves me having to get it rodded out.

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Finally got my headliner installed after putting it off for 6 months

>>28831664
>What's happened lads? Has CCG all rusted away?

It's cold and gets dark early. Plus, I have space to park in my garage, but not work comfortably. Need to clean the rest of the space out.

>>28832037
This.
Its cold so nothing new.
Not going to post pics from 5 years ago just to bump the thread.

But.
Dude wants specs on the GSS.
Found it.
Finishing up dinner with the family but afterwards I'll take some pics and do a little write up on external plumbing since all the forums I got the information from 15 years ago are dead.

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a combustion leak tester wasn't necessary, I found the water pump pissing when I topped it off again. Why it wasn't leaking the first time is beyond me. Another brand new shit part. I ordered the k member to solve my fitment issues and the car should be driving before spring. I left the Buick in the possession of my brother who promptly lost all 3 sets of keys to it and failed to list it on marketplace in 3 the months I've been gone, considering scrapping it. What's left of the original fuel line on the jeep promptly exploded when I tried driving it, drove the Tahoe and found a rat ate the entire rear harness out which took a bloody day to recreate. I think I have tabs on a LS3 for $3000 for another project. Always more work but not as bad with only one ford. The ztard has MS or lupus or something Im busy helping him.

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>>28832047
My GSS is easy to identify.
The decal was damaged when I bought it along with the nick in the case by the address on the label.
Ive never attempted to alter the label- it is what it is.

>>28832054
>Tell me youre S10fag without actually saying you're S10fag....

>>28831957
o lawd is dat an OBS?

>>28832047
Noice, that was me in the H/C/I thread.

>>28832076
A mercury grand marquis but they use the same dome light

>>28832071
you could secure a career in customer services with those powerful deduction skills

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>>28832084
Alright bro.
Here we go.

So this isnt like a cooling system or oiling system where its 100% in > 100% out.
The ball drive units were designed to be self contained so any additional cooling is beneficial.
However.
Agitation/frothing or making the fluid "foam" is bad because now air is being pumped into areas that expect 100% oil.
Think about a garden hose pouring into a pool and the splashing and bubbles and all of that. But if you stick the end of the hose under the surface of the water its suddenly calm and clear.

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>>28832105
So your first instinct is to put the pickup at 6 o'clock and the return at 12 o''clock.
Dont do that.
Youre just trying to pull heat, not filter (although you can do that too).
My system is like 4x more fluid than the GSS- even if the pump isnt running (cover that later) its still all "connected" and will disperse heat. Look at mechanical temperature gauges that use a capillary tube.


You want to pull and return to the existing reservoir without causing any disruption to its normal state- which means not breaking the surface tension of the reservoir volume.

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>>28832114
Side note-

I have a custom sized pulley because im running a single belt setup instead of the "standard" stacked dual belt setup.
Yes, that also means my brackets pulled the GSS into the same plane as all the other accessories.
The diameter might seem weird but its sized to match my crank underdrive pulley

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>>28832137
Its been a long time but im guessing the 3/4" AN supply vs 1/2" return is because of my cooler and not anything specific about "you need this size line to do this..."

If you were wondering-
Because the intercooler was so massive and took up all the space in front of the radiator- the Paxton cooler is actually mounted in front of the driver side tire.

>>28832100
I dont keep track of anyone's vehicles but when someone says "my X is shit and my Y is crap and A is broken again" my thought is just "damn dude, you must have gone to school with S10fag because you received the same (not) education"

Like.
Seriously.
How retarded can he be?
We had an embargo on Cuba for half a century and they had pristine bel air taxis running around with gaskets made from captain crunch boxes and that dipahit cant figure out how to fix something when OBD2 literaĺy tells him what's wrong...

>>28832182
sounds like he's fixing shit, have you tried xanax?

>>28832295
>he's fixing shit
Lol.
You must be new here.

>>28832152
>>28832137
>>28832114
>>28832105
fuckin saved. thanks br/o/

>>28832182
You're the kind of midwit asshole id hire morons like s10 just to torture you

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Firebird bust yet another radiator. This is fucking ridiculous. This one only lasted 3 months. Im thinking about moving away from the factory radiator mounts to something more modern

>>28833022
Go traditional copper/brass.

>>28833022
Imagine being this incompetent

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>>28833088
truth

>>28833088
i thought aluminium rads cool better than copper/brass ones; the brazing is aluminium, while copper and brass are soldered with lead which kinda sucks at heat transfer.

>>28833181
Even some of the ¨quality¨ aluminum rads can start leaking in a year or two.

>>28833181
Radiators havent used lead for brazing since the 40s. It would be extremely visible when you inspected or even glanced at a radiator.
They use a copper based alloy specifically for radiators.

>>28833185
>>28833191
huh, learn something new every day. shame with the quality of rads. Recently had my copper brass one cleaned out (scaling removed, but they didn't rod it out unfortunately) and thankfully it seems to be able to handle very hot days in heavy traffic well, temp gauge will move up and down (am aware that back then this was normal) but more importantly, not pissing out coolant anymore.
Was initially thinking of getting an aluminium one but after this have decided to just stick with the existing one.

>>28833204
Electric fan does wonders.

>>28833185
This, I don't think any of firebird's radiators have gone more than a year without leaking. The last one was tragic because it lasted the longest then got taken out in the wreck

>>28833204
I might try copper brass. I'd rather pay the premium and not have to replace the fucking radiator again

>>28833208
I still prefer viscous clutch over electric. Unless the tech has improved since the last time I looked at them (which was 10-15 years ago lol) viscous just flows more air and then when it's cool enough can freewheel.
I still love hydraulic fan setups though. Such an interesting piece of engineering and nothing beats its CFMs.

>>28833232
>I still love hydraulic fan setups though.
Where does one find a hydraulic fan in the aftermarket?

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>>28833220
true. it's apparently easier to repair too. At least, the pakis in this video make it look easy: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VJlTIddJIB4
On a side note, if anyone has their radiator out right now and needs to straighten the fins, webm related is really satisfying to do. Wish I came across it before I put mine back in...

>>28833238
you can't, i was just saying that i really like them.
I guess if you were a super turbo /o/tist you could make your own hard lines and scab a hydraulic motor from a 90s toyota (v6 camrys had one), a lincoln LS or a late 90s jeep. From memory the camry had an ecu and solenoids for controlling the fan speed too.

>>28833244
The repairability is the big thing. I would hope i can get the core soldered like nobody's business if it cracks along the core like this radiator did

>>28833251
LS and Jeep WJ also use the pcm to duty cycle a solenoid that's bypassing the pressure side to the return (Jeep) or reservoir (LS). More on-time=less bypass and higher fan speed. Stupid simple yet morons in the service industry could never figure that out and considered hydraulic fans as black magic that always required replacement of the entire system to fix.

Problem now is that solenoids are difficult to get. I suppose something could be bodged together for a bypass system but you'd probably have a hard time getting the pcm to work with it without doing something dumb like going into circuit-protection mode because one parameter or another is a fraction off.

>>28833232
Ill take a flex over anything.