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Originally Posted by wstar
Re: hoses, yeah I hate the bypasses too. I'm running two long bypasses (3/4 for heater, 5/16 for throttle body), and then I bought a tiny 45-degree section of 5/8 to replace that little rubber elbow on the true bypass line (which is mostly metal).
I'm assuming I'm right in thinking that the heater line is open full-time, and the thermostat just moves between "closed radiator + open bypass" and "open radiator + closed bypass", right? Or does the thermo also partially block the heater flow once the car's up to temp?
Also, at one point over my past track weekend, I got a CEL for "your coolant's too cold for the supposed thermostat setting", I think it was P0185, running my bypass setup + the mishimoto thermo. I imagine that one's deletable via UpRev, and it only happened once during a warmup.
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So far as I know, the heater continues to flow, the thermostat just opens the pump to radiator flow in addition to heater flow.
I think that mishimoto tstat is a little overkill for N/A cars... I'm going to stick with the stocker for now, maybe go to the inifiniti one when i replace the water pump. I'll have a pretty massive radiator in place, so I think having the tstat open at stock or a little below would be sufficient to keep everything happy.