[Land-speed] Radiator Catch Cans...

[James Tone]

I'm like you Rich my roadster just dumps at the rear of the car; but it's a tank system with no radiator. My coupe has only a radiator and an electric pump. I do have a catch bottle with that one. It goes in the cap with the hose extending to the bottom. There is a 1/8" hole in the top to relieve pressure. When cooling, it sucks the expanded coolant back in. All kind are available at McMaster-Carr: square, rectangle, round, etc...Mounts/brackets are pretty east to make....Good Luck

>>Subject: Re: [Land-speed] Radiator Catch Cans...
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>> Mayf;
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>> Cruise through your local junkyard and find a coolant recovery tank that
>> looks like it will work. Most are plastic these days.
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>> I have a trunk mounted "catch can" right now. The overflow comes in from
>> the radiator pressure cap and enters the can (actually a 3 gallon or so
>> SS tank, lol). The tank has a over flow tube itself and that dumps
>> overboard. Not a likely event because the can holds more that the
>> radiator and engine combined. But, I need to replace it with something
>> smaller as the space where the tank is curenly located is going to be
>> occupied by a water injection system pump and tank. I see that Summit
>> has plastic catch cans that hold a qt or so, but it looks like they are
>> non vented types. The overflow comes in at the top and there is a drain
>> valve at the bottom for clean out. Is this something I want to use or is
>> there something better but still reasonable in cost? Seems to me that as
>> water or steam comes into the overflow it is going to compress the air
>> trapped inside making it not so efficient?  In any case is it even
>> necessary? Do all of you other folk have radiator overflow catch cans?
>> If so, what are you using that is new and novel or just plain usefull?
>>
>> mayf, way off and far out in Pahrump where the )(&^%)^^%$( wind
>> continues to blow
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