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I just thought about this
more in the shower (where I do my best thinking, apologies for the mental
image)... I have a very simple system, with nothing more than a pressure
cap, and overflow bottle. I'll probably leave the cap in place, though it
will never get activated, and run my hose from the makeup bottle to a fitting on
the lower hose (suction side) of the water pump housing. I'd also like to
install one of those neato level switches on the overflow bottle, to alert me if
the level drops.
With any luck, a leak would
be a much slower problem with a non-pressurized system. Hopefully, the
level sensor would warn me in time to get to an airport. Heaven help you
trying to find Evan's NPG+ at an airport though.
I use the low oil sensor in
the pan, and would probably put the low coolant light next to it. I've
already got a label for the pair of lights, that I stole from the RX-7
list. Some of the RX-7's (at least the FD) have a low coolant light.
Several wags have joked that it's in fact the "change engine light"
:-) I can verify that this is a valid label for the low oil
light.
Another odd though that
came to mind. Wouldn't NPG be much better to have if you lost coolant
flow? At least I can imagine that it's much better for a low flow
situation. Since I believe we can all agree that EWP's work, I think we
can also agree that Todd has demonstrated that the flow is less than what the
stock pump puts out (not bad, just true). Would NPG make the EWP's lower
flow rate more appealing to the disbelievers? Still thinking this through,
but thought I'd throw it out there for comments.
Cheers,
Rusty (no Dave, I'm
not tasting it)
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