Waterpump and Cooling Revisions

So me and Alex from Triwerks sat down and tried to figure out what all we were gonna do about this cooling situation. As of recent the car had become an overheating nightmare and it was affecting my seat time and the cars performance on track, it had to be addressed. Derrick, who helped me build the most recent LS1, and scott from SPD Metalworks threw out a few pointers about the steam tube system and how to grab from it and properly vent it. So Alex went crazy with the welder and this is what we came up with…

-brand new bosch oem corvette water pump

-brand new thermostat and housing (oem configuration as my cars never had one)

-brand new oem belt tensioner shaved to compensate for motor plates

-custom swirl tank setup made by Triwerks Automotive

-Wegner motorsports steam tube port adapters for -4 AN fittings

-a metric crapton of AN fittings … again. haha

And in the spirit of this cars original build, let the overkill AN setup continue!

And the setup final plumbed

Essentially, the design of the system is to constantly circulate water through the bleeder tank we’ve fabricated and any remaining air bubbles or pockets left in the system will bleed out at the can. In order for the system to do this you must pull from as much high spots as possible, we chose the upper radiator tank (in 2 locations), both rear steam tube vents and the single adapter we created on the front steam tube crossover. The radiator hose was converted to a -16 AN hose so that I could run a higher pressure radiator cap without running the risk of blowing any coolant lines and therefore effectively raising my boiling temperature. The front heater hose provision was changed out to a -10 AN bung so that it could be the “pull” at the bottom of the bleeder tank. I’m very excited to test this setup out!