Ebay AST??
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Unless I did something very wrong (highly likely), when I tried to replace the AST without draining the coolant I lost a lot of coolant. It kept coming out to the point that I finally bailed and crammed the hoses back on the AST. I'm now waiting until I change coolant again before I make another attempt. Keep in mind however that I'm mechanically incompetent.
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keep the hose above the waterpump housing. if the hose is below then a lot of the fluid will drain out from there...
there's a good amount in the ast... get an old milkjug to catch the fluid.
there's a good amount in the ast... get an old milkjug to catch the fluid.
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Looks like a knockoff Greddy.
In my opinion it's not worth risking your engine, I would never install one of those on a customer's car. Instead just delete it altogether, the delete kit (fc filler neck) is like 30 bucks from Ray at Malloy Mazda. gets rid of a few failure points in the engine bay.
In my opinion it's not worth risking your engine, I would never install one of those on a customer's car. Instead just delete it altogether, the delete kit (fc filler neck) is like 30 bucks from Ray at Malloy Mazda. gets rid of a few failure points in the engine bay.
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goodfella, could you explain that a bit more for a noob? I seem to remember something about the AST being important, but that may have just been someone's "trust mazda" argument
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if you search this site it,s all over the place, your question will open up another ongoing argument, some say you must run an ast, others tell you to loose the ast. alot of ppl have explained the importance of it & how it works, others have good results without it. i personally deleted it & works good, all u need is a fc coolant filler neck with overflow fitting on it, run that hose to bottle, plug other lines off, bleed coolant very good. hope you like reading because i suspect this will open up a large debate lol
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fair enough- definitely don't want to spark a debate, and I am reading my *** off in the faq section so that I don't step on any landmines. I was semi aware of the debate, I just hadn't heard of the FC tank mod. many thanks
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Unless I did something very wrong (highly likely), when I tried to replace the AST without draining the coolant I lost a lot of coolant. It kept coming out to the point that I finally bailed and crammed the hoses back on the AST. I'm now waiting until I change coolant again before I make another attempt. Keep in mind however that I'm mechanically incompetent.
i did mine the other day w/o draining the coolant, it was hell and man am i never doing that again without draining the coolant. i lost alot of coolant and actually had to half burp the system after since i was scared i lost too much.
long story short either u better be amazing with clamping hoses shut and ramming hard to reach hoses on in tight spots, or jsut draint he coolant system and take your time.
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It would only work on a SMIC setup if you have your battery removed or re-route it somewhere else because I couldn't fit it in there with the stock SMIC setup.
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In reality a container is just a container no matter how you slice it. As said as long as there are no leaks you should be just fine.
Where are the commonly rx7club approved brands manufactured? I'd bet a few are in China, which is where your ebay parts are going to come from anyway.
Where are the commonly rx7club approved brands manufactured? I'd bet a few are in China, which is where your ebay parts are going to come from anyway.
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