Guys does anyone know how to loosen up the water resevoir? I want to lower my car but I cant take out the top bolt because it hits the resevoir.

I just need to move it enough to I can feed the bolt out.

 

Oh, yeah.

Remove the 2 M6 nuts and un-clip the hose restraints.

Remove the electrical plug at the bottom of the reservoir.

Put your hands underneath and LIFT-hard.

If you can, spray a little WD-40 or equiv. on the barb right at the bottom. It is dry and very hard to get out of the rubber grommet.

Look under it with a mirror. You will see.

 

I would also suggest pulling away from the side of the car to help accomodate the angle that the barb enters the rubber grommet at the bottom. Doing this significantly helped me when I was doing my HID install.

 

A Thousand Words.....

 

Thanks guys, its that rubber holder that gave me trouble I didnt know whether it was permenantly fixed there or not I didnt want to pull to hard incase I broke it. I want to just move it enough so the bolt comes out I dont want to unclip the hoses otherwise I'll loose all my coolant

 

Just remove the two nuts and pull it free. You dont have to disconnect everything if you just want it out of the way some. There should be enough play in the hoses.

 

OK, Brian, what are you up to? Valve covers off, large gapping hole?

 

That was an old pic Doc... he put his shiney custom IC tank in there and polished up all his engine parts..... your memory is going man.....

 

BUT, if you don't disconnect the level cable, it will be a problem.

Really.

 

as long as you have the resovoir up and out of the way plug off the large bottom line and the small line from the i/c. separated system!!

 

Duno if that seperation system does anything man, the hotter my car gets at the track it puts out better times lol crazy huh?

I figure if it were that much of a big deal MB would have done it from the factory it's only a line or 2 isnt it?

BUT in saying that a few guys have seperated there systems and ran like a trunk mount system and fill it with ice or have ice around it on track days now I do believe that would definatly help.

 

it most certainly helps. the hot coolant from the engine isnt being run thru the i/c. also the i/c system is low pressure and the engine is high pressure. so the sep. is cheap and an added bonus
the rear tank only helps if you are draining and refilling with ice. no matter how big a system you run, eventually all the fluid gets to the same temp as the i/c and the supercooler can only cool so much before its heated again. the more fluid just allows you to take longer to reach that point. then you have to consider the weight vs temp advantage.
brianbrave has a ton of info on this subject. check his posts.

as for running better when hot, if your just running test and tune you can stop at your convience. if your bracket racing or autocrossing for long times you will have s/c shutdown. in the us there are times when you will be hot lapping at the 1/4 and no time to cool down . then the iat's will rise drasticly