UPDATED w/PICs: Water Port Adapter from Tuner Toys
 

UPDATE: These are in our online store now. Pricing is set at $37 for the world, and $29 for HMT members. You won't see that HMT price anywhere in our store, you can only get it because you read this post and know to send us an email for part number "WPAD" to "Sales@TunerToys.com". This is one of those HMT hookups to replace the 5% discount. Shipping is NOT included.

Buy them up peeps, cause we have some other new products on the way.

ONline Installation Write-Up

Water Port Adapter page in our store

Installed on our CRX MiniMe Vitara Project
[img width=480]http://www.shadetreetuner.com/content/instructions/WPA/WaterPortAdapterDSeriesInstallation/photo26.jpg[/img]

Catalog Shot
http://www.shadetreetuner.com/images...Return_480.jpg

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Hey Guys,

We've seen a few of our racer friends do this, and thought it was a great idea. So we turned them into an official product. It's our version of the water return port, with an integrated temperature sender mounting port. It mounts between the water neck and the head on any D series engine. It provides two ports, one is a 3/8NPT port for water return from a turbo, etc., and the other is a 1/2NPT port for mounting up a temperature sender for an aftermarket gauge.

This makes it very convenient to mount up your after market water temp gauge. Just use the adapters included with the gauge to mount up the sender in the 1/2NPT port. This places your aftermarket gauge sender just inches from the factory location on the end of the head.

We include plugs for any unused ports. Below is a pic. Your thoughts? We haven't set pricing yet, and want to get your thoughts on what you think this is worth.

http://www.shadetreetuner.com/images...Return_480.jpg

We'll get some installed pics up soon.

Craig @ Tuner Toys

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I like it as long as its cheap, are d series the only option?

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Nice product Craig. B series would be a must. This come from Ryan's car?

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Hey send one to try out, I will put up pics, bought lots o ---- from u

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I think it'd be awesome for Honda-Tech or more baller setups. I doubt many HMTers care too much about coolant lines or pressure gauges.

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i like it!!! i wonder if you could run both feed and return for us watercooled center section guys from that..

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D series are ready now, and B18C5 units are next. We'll also be doing B18A/B after that. Here is a pic of it installed on one of our cars. Yes, we know that the sender is not connected to anything.

http://www.shadetreetuner.com/images...all_23_480.jpg

Dave - I don't remember exactly who did this first, we've been looking at it for about a year now. We made a few of them by hand for a couple of our racer friends, and then decided to do a production run of them on CNC and see how well they sell.

Craig

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There would be no flow, so yeah you could do it, but why?

You could make a fitting of the same size, but it would have to be designed different.

As it is now you can run the return/feed into the fitting and then just "T" into a line elsewhere. Eliminates one long coolant line anyway. The problem I would see with the return and feed/return being on the same place is the lines to the turbo are so much smaller than the upper rad hose.

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I say $25. It looks really nice, good idea.