Relocating Coolant Overflow [Merged 11-6]

[oztofrdm]

I just ziptied my stock overflow can in the stock area. Seems to do fine. If i ever get rid of my PS i have a small over flow that i bought at advanced for about 7bucks.

 

[spoolup]

I own a 2g and they do not use a sensor, the 1g I did this on did not use the sensor either, and it worked great. I told him he would get a idiot light on the dash but he hasnt, guess it was burned out or bad. Vehicle still works fine however. As does the bottle.

Sorry I wasn't even thinking about that when I replied to your post. I was giving a more universal approach that is pretty cheap. But in now way took into concideration the use of stock sensor.

You could probally rig a bracket from sheetmetal to work great as well.

 

[dnhieu]

the 7 dollar advance auto sounds good to me. i dont really care what it looks like just as long as its below the thermostat housing and doesnt cost too much.

 

[91-gsx]

i actually did it differently. when i put my fmic on i did not think of relocating the coolant overflow tank, but it turned out sense i made short route tubing that went throught the area that the tank went, that i had to relocate it. so here is what i did, its free and easy. if you look at the area to the left of your upper intercooler pipe, or the area were the tanny mount is, you will notice that the coolant overflow tank can fit very snuggly between the mount and the upper intercooler. it will not touch the tranny so the sensor at the bottom can be retained, and sense i have done this, the tank has not tipped over and it is always in place when i pop the hood. anyway, hope this helps.
later

 

[alex99gst]

i actually did it differently. when i put my fmic on i did not think of relocating the coolant overflow tank, but it turned out sense i made short route tubing that went throught the area that the tank went, that i had to relocate it. so here is what i did, its free and easy. if you look at the area to the left of your upper intercooler pipe, or the area were the tanny mount is, you will notice that the coolant overflow tank can fit very snuggly between the mount and the upper intercooler. it will not touch the tranny so the sensor at the bottom can be retained, and sense i have done this, the tank has not tipped over and it is always in place when i pop the hood. anyway, hope this helps.
later

I am about to install my fmic as well and I was looking around the other day and this looked like a prime spot. I think I will be relocating it there.

 

[pnklmnd]

Ok, s ghetto as this sounds it works perfectly. Me and several of my buddys have this on are cars now.

Get a Gatorade, drink the wondeful drink. Take the label off(or not its upto you). The cap to the overflow bottle go's on there perfectly. Tada! Overflow bottle for a dollar. You will have to trim the hose that go's down into the Antifreeze.

For mounting: I have short route piping that comes through the whole right next to the overflow bottle. There is a little bracket that mounts to the body you can drill holes in it, then zip tie the bottle to it. However you will need a longer hose that go's from the t-stat housing to the cap. As it wont be able to reach. There is virtually HUNDREDS of mounting options in the Engine bay. So play around a bit with it and find where it works for you!

 

[CanadianTSi]

Get a Gatorade, drink the wondeful drink. Take the label off(or not its upto you). The cap to the overflow bottle go's on there perfectly. Tada! Overflow bottle for a dollar. You will have to trim the hose that go's down into the Antifreeze.

I've run this for 2 years, exact some Gatorade bottle and all, no problems.

 

[spoolup]

yeah but the gatorade bottle does not accept the 1G sensor. But it did work I did this till my jaz one came in. And when we would look around under the hood alot of people would laugh at the gatorade bottle.

 

[tstkl]

Im just curious on where you guys are going to get a coolant overflow bottle for first gens? I know dejontool sells the relocation kit but im kinda looking for a cheap way out and i want to go to the junk yard and find one that fits. If you have a chance could you also post a pic on how you guys mounted it.

thanks in advance
david-

, ironic... i just had to move mine again. what i did was take some coat hangers, and strapped it to the uicp. ill take some pics tomorrow.

 

[BoostedTalonTS]

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I got the overflow bottle from a late 90's Mirage... $5 out of the local auto wrecking yard. It actually holds itself in place (between the short-route IC pipe and the 2G MAS).

It doesn't have a low coolant sender unit, but the stock sending unit (once removed from the OE overflow bottle) will fit in the bottom, provided that you make a perfectly sized hole in the bottom for it so it doesn't leak........ So far... I'm lazy and haven't gotten around to doing that. -The dash light will only come on if the sender unit's leads make contact with each other.

 

[DevilSperm]

I went the gatorade bottle route too works great

 

[kanderson111]

I used the space that the stock smic was located in. The neck of the bottle will fit right up through the hole where the stock upper i/c pipe used to go. After you push it up through there it will be in there really snug. I looped a pipe hanger strap under it and used a couple of self tapping screws to secure it. This holds it in place and no one will see your pipe hanger hardware after you put the bumper cover back on. You will have to get a longer hose to go from the thermostat housing to the bottle, but everything else works fine. The wires to the sensor on the bottle will also reach with no problem.

If you need a picture, ask me and I'll try to take one, and post it for you.

 

[gSx_r1der]

I went the gatorade bottle route too works great

Pictures???

 

[kanderson111]

Here goes could'nt get the bottom half because the bumper is still on.

 

[DevilSperm]

Pictures???

ill get some later, cars getting aligned

 

[dnhieu]

Yeah post some more pics...

 

[DevilSperm]

ok here, i had to shave the tiniest little bit off with my dremel to get the cap to fit tight and still be able to pull it back off but that was the hardest part. And this passes tech believe it or not

 

[dnhieu]

ok here, i had to shave the tiniest little bit off with my dremel to get the cap to fit tight and still be able to pull it back off but that was the hardest part. And this passes tech believe it or not

DAMN, that super looks have assed, but im going to do it anyways.

 

[blcknspo0ln]

it's ghetto, but it works. I dont like that much ghetto rigging in my car and in leiu of this thread, I decided to go and put a bottle BACK into my car. I ran my car for the past 2 weeks without one and just had a line dumping coolant to the ground

autozone's compact bottle was 6 bucks off the shelf and came with the lines, mounting tab, and bottle. here's some pictures. the two arrows are the nut/bolt and ziptie I used to secure the bottle in

 

[pnklmnd]

It has worked fine for me and my friends for close to 2 years. It doesnt look that terrible. Ive never had a coolant light come on any ways so it didnt matter to me disabling the unit. I guess looks would only matter if you were a show car.

 

[blcknspo0ln]

I probably would have used a gatorade bottle too, but i'm anal about my engine looking clean.. that's why I went with the autozone one. but sadly, it looked like sh*t in the engine bay too, so that's why I moved it to the SMIC area.

oh well. I guess if you're planning on using it in that area, you could just use a gatorade bottle.

 

[Bohrn]

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not sure what I did differently, but I have a fmic and my coolant bottle sits in the same location, unmodified at all. It sits about 2 inches higher up, but still grips no problem and has cause no issues at all. this is an older pic, some minor things have changed, but the pipes still go the same way, the I/C is the same and the bottle fits in the same location.

 

[alkadaypx182]

What do those who can't afford a bottle of gatorade do?

 

[dnhieu]

What do those who can't afford a bottle of gatorade do?

sell your dsm or look in a dumpster

 

[Turbo Shogun]

Go to the junkyard and look for an early '90s AE101/AE92 Corolla. Take their coolant overflow bottles. They fit perfectly in the stock SMIC location with a couple zipties. You'll need a longer coolant line, though.