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IaM-Ray posted:

David I think Phil was saying that because IM seems to only build them by putting a slot in the lower body area and covering it up with the bumper so it is unseen. 

Your set up works which is great,  if your temp goes up at idle if you have a temp gauge available you can always make sure you idle it at a faster rpm to keep it cool or put in an inline auxiliary pump like a lot of us have. 

Sure my temp gauge goes up at idle in stop and go traffic but the fan takes good care of that. No need to idle it faster and no aux pump either. Proven in Miami traffic. 

IM and maybe others use heavy duty marine type composite flex hose to get coolant up to the rad and back and it works very well and also allows bending around things that are in the way. I used two lengths of 1 1/2" aluminum tubes from a donated hang glider frame. My tubes radiate heat too. 

I don't want to sound cheap about it, but you have to understand I really didn't have any experience in doing this conversion before. Everything was an experiment and I wasn't about to blow big bucks on trials. When something did work right I fell into the old adage of "if it works, leave it alone ".  My first two 2.2l engines were yanked at a local wreckers for $350. When I found that all was working well, I splurged on the Frankenmotor and the rebuilt / regeared tranny. 

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