Coolant hoses.

[Percy]

So, I've been looking for some silicone ancillary hose kits for my Rev C GTB of Deth, and the options are either very expensive or non-existent.

However there are kits available for every model WRX under the sun sea or moon.

Do any of youse guru's know if all or most of the hoses from a particular model WRX kit would fit?

[patrickc22]

I think it was a version 7 8 bottom fits

Do you have a photo of your top hose

I have the same problem I ended up driving all around Auckland to try and find one.

I ended up going to parts master

[B4 I was 250T]

Ebay old boy, wonderful place! Here's a link (obviously in red cos that's how I roll)

http://www.ebay.com/itm/151111723168?_trksid=p2055119.m1438.l2649&ssPageName=STRK%3AMEBIDX%3AIT

[A_J_T]

I just got this for mine http://www.ebay.com/itm/STi-SILICONE-RADIATOR-HOSE-FOR-SUBARU-Impreza-WRX-GDA-GDB-NEW-AGE-02-07-BL-/311413395412?hash=item4881af4fd4

Did everything i needed Ruby-the-BE5

[B4 I was 250T]

Wow those are cheap!!! They good?

[A_J_T]

Yea there decent i think, cant complain for $70ish landed.

[B4 I was 250T]

Very cool!

[Scoobydoo]

Yeah that red set won't work for BE/BH... the coolant hoses are wrong. The radiator has a central top hose, not a right-hand side one like the BD/BG.

The Blue one will be fine though. You can see that they are actually very different sets.

[Rosssub]

Also note the different angle at the block for the top radiator hose. Rev A-C has an angled alloy crossover pipe but Rev D-E has the straight forward facing crossover pipe. So the wrong model hose will be slightly kinked.

Rev D/E and version 7+ on the bottom:

[Percy]

Interesting, very interesting!

So most of a WRX kit will fit, providing the main hoses are of the correct shape yah?

[Rosssub]

The blue kit linked above is for a version 7. So as above the top radiator hose will be slightly kinked on a rev A/B/C. Also the turbo coolant hoses between the turbo's and header tank wont be right, the TT has a T piece in the secondary hose that feeds off to the primary turbo (10mm and 12mm). Also one of the firewall heater hoses will be wrong WRX-TT, because both TT heater hoses are together under the TMIC.

[Percy]

 Rosssub said:

The blue kit linked above is for a version 7. So as above the top radiator hose will be slightly kinked on a rev A/B/C. Also the turbo coolant hoses between the turbo's and header tank wont be right, the TT has a T piece in the secondary hose that feeds off to the primary turbo (10mm and 12mm). Also one of the firewall heater hoses will be wrong WRX-TT, because both TT heater hoses are together under the TMIC.

Roger!

I knew about the turbo hoses being wrong, so they will have to be hacked a bit.

Might get one of the cheap ones and report what fits and what doesn't.

Also now there is both a Rev C GTB(mine) and a Rev D RSK (Kims) in teh family, can report on the differences between fitting the kit to both!

Dammit, that's a lot of faffing with hoses, and a lot of coolant...

And probably some bleeding, there's always bleeding.