Pro or Con to tapping the back of the intake for heat?

Posted By: BlakDak

Pro or Con to tapping the back of the intake for heat? - 05/06/14 04:27 PM

Its a 360

What are your thoughts on tapping the rear of the intake for heater ports, instead of off the intake and water pump?

Thanks

Posted By: BlakDak

Re: Pro or Con to tapping the back of the intake for heat? - 05/07/14 02:04 AM

Bueller?

Posted By: SpareParts

Re: Pro or Con to tapping the back of the intake for heat? - 05/07/14 02:39 AM

You mean to get warmer heat?

I guess do whatever makes you happy

Posted By: mcat4321

Re: Pro or Con to tapping the back of the intake for heat? - 05/07/14 02:40 AM

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Its a 360

What are your thoughts on tapping the rear of the intake for heater ports, instead of off the intake and water pump?

Thanks

i did it cuz it looked cool.. did it help? who knows..

Posted By: BlakDak

Re: Pro or Con to tapping the back of the intake for heat? - 05/07/14 03:45 AM

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You mean to get warmer heat?

I guess do whatever makes you happy

I just wondered if there any positives for doing it, or if it would screw something up.

Posted By: Cab_Burge

Re: Pro or Con to tapping the back of the intake for heat? - 05/07/14 03:59 AM

The water leaving the intake manifold will be hottor than at the rear of the motor, the heads do most of the heating on the coolant

Posted By: Sport440

Re: Pro or Con to tapping the back of the intake for heat? - 05/07/14 04:57 AM

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You mean to get warmer heat?

I guess do whatever makes you happy

I just wondered if there any positives for doing it, or if it would screw something up.

Could screw up the flow as in no flow/no heat.

No seriously, the flow through the heater core is quite a distance. So the best route is from the water pumps high and low pressure sides at the pump for best flow to the heater core.

But there can be alternate routes, as long as at least one side of the feeds or returns goes to the water pump.

I believe the positive flow from the water pump goes into the upper intake on the SB, so you could feed the heater core from that at the back and send the return from the heater core back to the water pump and it should work fine, IMO

But ,Im going to ask, Who runs a SB anymore

Posted By: babarracuda

Re: Pro or Con to tapping the back of the intake for heat? - 05/07/14 02:26 PM

There more SB racers that BB.

Posted By: BigBlockMopar

Re: Pro or Con to tapping the back of the intake for heat? - 05/07/14 02:37 PM

There are also more losers than winners...

Posted By: Cab_Burge

Re: Pro or Con to tapping the back of the intake for heat? - 05/07/14 06:50 PM

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There more SB racers that BB.

Really

Where

Posted By: JohnRR

Re: Pro or Con to tapping the back of the intake for heat? - 05/07/14 08:01 PM

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Its a 360

What are your thoughts on tapping the rear of the intake for heater ports, instead of off the intake and water pump?

Thanks

You need one in the front intake crossover , the water will be coming OUT of those 2 locations , you would have no water flow thru the heater core.

Posted By: Moparnut426

Re: Pro or Con to tapping the back of the intake for heat? - 05/07/14 08:11 PM

I did it to my 408, I was told it evens the flow out as theres no dead head point at the back of the intake. Didnt bother my heater at all.

Pluss it looks cool!!

I figured if the NASCRAP boys do it on a 500 MILE 700+ HP at 8K all day long, I figured it must do something as their cooling setups are similar.

Pluss it looks cool!!

Posted By: 340B5

Re: Pro or Con to tapping the back of the intake for heat? - 05/07/14 08:21 PM

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There are also more losers than winners...

ouch

Posted By: BlakDak

Re: Pro or Con to tapping the back of the intake for heat? - 05/08/14 02:58 AM

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I did it to my 408, I was told it evens the flow out as theres no dead head point at the back of the intake. Didnt bother my heater at all.

Pluss it looks cool!!

I figured if the NASCRAP boys do it on a 500 MILE 700+ HP at 8K all day long, I figured it must do something as their cooling setups are similar.

Pluss it looks cool!!

You wouldn't happen to have a picture of how you did it?