Using surge/breather tanks with v-mounts
 

How many of you guys have had trouble bleeding your coolant system with a v-mount radiator, and have you been able to fix it with a surge tank?

Just started setting up my radiator yesterday, it's not too crazy of an angle but it's lower than the highest water point on the engine.

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Also, forgive my noob status, but I've never messed with a surge tank before. There's obviously a radiator cap on top of the tank, does that become the new filling location or do you still fill it from the radiator fill hole?

i built this for mine.

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I would look into an AST (like the FDs have) or coolant swirl pots (same idea).

This is what I will be using for my Vmount and also how I plan on filling my coolant system.

I bought a rad cap flange and made a custom water neck for the 13b. Its tall and I fill with a spill free tunnel so no air pockets

Cylinder aluminum overflow mounted off the radiator cap. Prety much have 2 caps but leave the radiator one alone

I dont know about 2J water inlet/outlet but if you buy an aluminum radiator cap flange and weld it in you could fill it up there

I had an aluminum bung welded to the top most part of my radiator... then I simply threaded in a copper Radiator Drain. I open it when I'm filling up the coolant until water starts to appear. It works really really well. It also saves a hell of a lot of time.