89TA383M5

Assembeling the rest of my 383. Was hooking up the whole new intake I have on my new 383. Thats when I noticed that where the coolant is suposed to come out of the front of the manifold and then to the deverter for the heater core or the throttle body (I bypassed the throttle body with the old manifold) was missing. There is no hole. I know some people on here have this manifold so what did you do? I dont feal like having to taking off the manifold again to drill and tap a hole for the connector. I may just have to block off the hose that goes to the radiator till after winter when I pull the car back out from storage to fix this problem. I was thinking that the only way to fix this would be to buy a water pump that would have a hole for the connector. Help would be great.

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Most water pumps only have 'inlet' ports and you need an 'outlet' port to supply your heater core.
You do have some options.
Drilling & taping the intake while on the car is possible & shouldn't be that bad. Aluminum is soft and metal bits in the cooling system should be harmless.
You could remove a plug from the side of a head (where the temp guage sender goes) and install a nipple for a heater hose.
You could also put a coolant nipple in the one hole in the front of the intake to run your heater hose, then install your coolant temp sensor inline on that heater hose. Fords (late 80's mustangs) used a sensor on the metal heater line on the passenger side top of the engine. You could grab one of those lines from the junkyard, cut it down to size and get an adapter for your sensor to fit in.

89TA383M5

Thanks. I also wanted to know what people have done that have this intake.