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I took out my A/C system while my car's apart and I plan on installing a WRC TM soon. I see that you have to relocate the coolent tank, but I was wondering if anyone has pics and a parts list of what I'll need. Thanks.

-Justin

Here's mine,





Mark,

Whats with the white power stearing tank?

Looks good. Now how did you do it?

pretty simple, I spliced the 2 major coolant lines (1/2") IIRC with 90 degree brass barbs and hose clamps, got some more tubing and relocated the tank, mounted it using a custom fab bracket. For the two small coolant lines I just shortened them. One comes from the upper rad with a small steel tubing line that runs across the intake manifold. I cut that steel line before it bends and heads off to the old coolant tank located, connected a peice of coolant line and ran it strait to the new tank location. The other small rubber coolant line (which goes into the overflow tank) I just cut and shortened.

The white power steering reservoir is there because the original looked pretty rusty, so I painted it.

Mark,

Anyone else have coolant relocation pics on cars that still have the AC?

All I did was redo all 4 lines with new longer coolant hose. The bracket is 1/8" bar stock I think. I custom bent it in our vice with a hammer until all the holes lined up for the bolts I put through the existing tank holes. There are multiple compound angles so it took some time... but I got it to line up perfectly.

And oh yeah, I relocated the battery to the trunk, by the way.

I've been looking at yours brat, and besides boostjunkies old setup, yours looks like a pretty good idea. Although a lot more work than Jasons was.

Got any tips on battery relocation?
Did you run 2 wires? one for power and one for ground or did you ground on the chassis in the rear and in the front?

It is not that hard at all... I got it done after all

One wire is run to the back. Have a stereo shop do it. They do them all day for stereo systems, and they don't even charge much. Then get a battery relocation kit from summit or something, it's $40 or so (actually this step is 1st). Put everything together and there is a oval plastic cap on the floor of the trunk, underneath is where your bumper rails bolt into the frame. Take the bolt out, clean the area up and put your negative terminal under it and crank it back down. You are done, minus other small details here and there .

Yup, simple enough...

I've already run power wire to my Amps from front to rear, so I think I could manage.
It's getting past the lazyness..

Does anyone have a picture of the coolant reservoir moved that still has the A/C AND the battery in it's original location?

I only ask because I've got a wagon and putting the battery back there doesn't make much sense to me. I've thought about it though.

-Brian

BoostJunkie's old Legacy is the only one I've seen that has just been moved to the right.

http://www.graphics.cornell.edu/~v/pics ... unkie8.jpg

http://www.angelfire.com/md3/91turboleg ... ebay01.jpg

I relocated my coolent tank somewhere else its like South west of the turbo...ill take pictures of it tommorrow if it doesnt rain...I should have them posted by tommorrow night...its not so good of a position but i still have my AC and battery up front...despite the fact that anyway ill be moving my battery to the back.

what year coolant tank would fit? 2002 and up?

I have a thread on here that shows my relocation and I had a write up on it too. I'm pretty sure that when Hardy (Thawa) dropped the gallery that all the pics aren't hosted anymore and won't work. If you PM me your email address I can send you the pics tonight after work.

All my write up thread pics don't work anymore. It's a shame because some of them were pretty informative.....

I put mine where all the JDM ones are. It is a tight fit, but not hard to plumb.