Deleting throttle body heater plate.

[E30Bmw]

Personally I wanted to be safe so i bought hose number 16 and 18 in the below picture cut a piece off the pipe(26) to join the two and used some hose clamps.  There is no stretching at all on the hoses they all line up and fit perfect like it's ment to be.

[nanotech9]

I just did this!  So nice to finally get rid of all that crap...  always wondered if i could, but never took the time to mess with it.

Did the hose delete as part of the injector swap... made a hose barb out of aluminum on my lathe to make it easy to get from the smaller port between cyl 2 and 3, over to the plastic manifold nipple.  Figured that was as easy as turning a couple of hose caps and it took the same amount of hose clamps too...  

So much easier than replacing all those hoses - which i priced once (and even replaced a couple years ago) at about $150 for all (if i remember right).

[DesktopDave]

+1 on that...mine is freshly out!  I can't wait to see how the car feels with a tight intake.

Broke the plastic coolant manifold, but other than that all is going well.  Did everyone use the OEM paper gaskets?  I noted that the head doesn't exactly line up with the lower intake...has anyone ever ported that little bit of shrouding out?

I'm also planning on a catch can (re-purposed 1/4" compressor water trap from Home Depot's auto performance section).  I've seen a few nice examples but haven't had much feedback.  Anyone?

[Geoff]

I want to get rid of the mess under the intake as well.   I am not sure whether to go the cap route, or go with a hose that connects the heater manifold to the nipple in the engine.   One snag on this is the manifold is, as I understand it, about 5/8 of an inch, while the nipple on the head is about 1/2 inch.   Has anyone tried using a peice of expansion hose, where it has the larger end and then goes down to smaller hose?   Its about 10 bucks or so for the extra hose, but you can probably use the other part too on your fabrication of a new system.   I just may do that,  when I buy all the other hoses and gaskets and stuff to do this job so it lasts a while.
                                                                      Geoff

[Gerta318is]

Geoff - I purchased a silicone hose kit and used a piece that was good enough to stretch over the water outlet pipe end (hose 18) and to the nipple (hose 16).  I clamped both ends and called it good. Hasn't had one leak yet!

[Geoff]

yeah, I  can see that working as well.  The silicone  hose is a little easier to stretch over a slightly larger port than the regular rubber hose is
                                                                       Geoff

[blueboi69]

Hi!

I removed the heater plates a few days ago. No problem at all! I'll give feedback in winter, it's pretty cold here in Hungary in winter, about -15C.

[bsturman92]

hey gotta question.  im ordering all my parts now for mess under the intake.. and i want to be sure my vacuum hoses do not collapse.  wat type of hose should i order? im gettting all my parts through pelican but if there are better hoses at auto store i would prefer to pick those up. im getting 5/8 heater hose, 19/32 vacuum hose.  where should i get the hose from is wat im tryin to ask i guess.. any help would be appreciated