Heater hose Alternative

[candy-a-Mach1]

Ever since I got my first mustang 20+ years ago, I hated the way the heater hoses were routed. They lay accross the intake, or attach to the shock tower, or whatever the previous owned dreamed up. Now, since I work for a company that makes hoses for all the automobile manufacturers, I finially have something that I'm happy with.

I located the vacuum operated water valve near the firewall, transitioned to aluminum tubes to run along the valve covers, then back to hoses for the connections to the water pump and intake.

Check out the pics and give me your opinions, please (but be nice). I have a couple of thoughts for my next revision. It is on a 351W, in a 1969 Mach 1 with tall valve covers. One more pic in the second post.

 

[candy-a-Mach1]

Another Pic

 

[mustangdave]

I've always wanted to do that; it looks 100% better! What kind of tubing and where did you get it? I would really like to have some anodized tubing but I could fake it with paint.

 

[kubelvag]

Looks great. I have been wanting to due the same thing. but have not had the time.

 

[351carlo]

great look. I'm going to attempt that with my Cleveland.

 

[reyesjo]

heater hose

Look good, I have something similar, I have a 5.0 1989 fule Inj. engine so the heater hose is routed to the rear of the engine already. just plug and play..

 

[candy-a-Mach1]

I've always wanted to do that; it looks 100% better! What kind of tubing and where did you get it? I would really like to have some anodized tubing but I could fake it with paint.

Thanks. It's aluminum 5/8" x 0.040 wall tubing. We use miles of it at work. The difficult part is getting it endformed and bent correctly. I think that it would look good anodized or powder coated.

 

[Hack]

I like it. I think it looks much better than the factory setup.

 

[Ronstang]

I did something similar but I used stainless steel tubing instead.

 

[MustangPaul]

Man, you could eat off of that engine.

People would buy that in a kit form, you know.

 

[bnickel]

ford actually did something similar to that. my old 73 galaxie 500 that i got from my great grandmother actually had that same thing from the factory only in steel instead of aluminum. aluminum does have the added benefit of not rusting however. i haven't put mine back on the enigine since it got transferred into the stang because it wouldn't go under the steel fuel line for my demon carb. eventually i will try to get the demon modified so the fuel line will be like a factory ford boss or scj carb where the feed line actually enters on the driver side and then has a transfer tube on the passenger side.

 

[mustangdave]

Isn't there a tool to form a nipple on the end of the hard line to help retain the rubber line and clamp? It seems like I've seen that somewhere.

 

[Cupid]

Anybody know a good place to get this aluminum tubing from? I assume any tube bender will work for the 90* bends?

 

[hsr]

Isn't there a tool to form a nipple on the end of the hard line to help retain the rubber line and clamp? It seems like I've seen that somewhere.

http://www.eastwoodco.com/jump.jsp?itemID=10882&itemType=PRODUCT

 

[Max Power]

I like it. Send me a set.

 

[mustangdave]

Just take it off a mid to late 80's 5.0; that's the way Ford did theirs. Polished s.s. would be cool though.