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Old Mar 7, 2003 | 02:30 AM
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Adding reverse flow cooling?

Is there anyway to add this to an L98? I don't mean to add the Lt1 heads or intake just to reverse the flow of coolant on our engines, what would it take to do this?
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Old Mar 13, 2003 | 03:25 AM
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Good question. I'm not going to hypothesize but I can't see it being too difficult with an externally plumbed electric water pump. Just put it evenly into the intake manifold and install the thermostat housing on the lower radiator hose.
I would think you would just need to run coolant mostly to the back of the intake manifold/heads and slightly less to the front. Then gut your stock water pump. I wonder what would happen if you just used a reverse rotation pump (v-belt if you've got serp) and then install the thermostat in the lower line. The biggest problem would be air pockets and tuning.

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Old Mar 13, 2003 | 01:42 PM
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Originally posted by JPrevost
Good question. I'm not going to hypothesize but I can't see it being too difficult with an externally plumbed electric water pump. Just put it evenly into the intake manifold and install the thermostat housing on the lower radiator hose.
I would think you would just need to run coolant mostly to the back of the intake manifold/heads and slightly less to the front. Then gut your stock water pump. I wonder what would happen if you just used a reverse rotation pump (v-belt if you've got serp) and then install the thermostat in the lower line. The biggest problem would be air pockets and tuning.
I guess I should look into how they do it on the 4th gens a little more, but I thought it seamd pretty easy to do on paper thus the reason I asked, well thanks for you info.
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