I too got "SCREWED" by TECHCO, and CTP will come to the rescue...

I'll take a shot at this one.
Let's say you go to the doctor because you think you might have a cold. The doctor says I'm not positive but I don't think you have a cold and my tests don't indicate a cold either, but my suggestion is that you go home and keep a record of your temperature and in the mean time I'm going to give you some vitamin C.

Fact: you run the car and the next day you add 1 oz of fluid to fill up the filler neck.
Fact: the system was pressurized with 22 psi for 1.5 hours and did not leak.

So now what?
Speculation: When the filler neck is filled to the top, the system is over full and when you run it, it purges to the "full" level -- which leaves some empty space in the filler neck. My coolant system will do that.
Speculation: Maybe there is some obscure conditions under which some coolant leaks from the system. Some frequency of vibration, some metal expansion/contraction due to heat cold cycles, etc. etc. who knows? If there is such a leak a coolant sealer will most likely resolve the problem.

If you absolutely have to be positively sure exactly what the cause is you might end up investing way more than buying a completely new and different blower system. I'd recommend x-raying all parts of the coolant system throughout an entire cold, run, cooldown cycle. With the engine in the right lab you could actually watch where the fluid missing from the filler neck goes and when.

So right now the first practical step is to characterize the symptoms. See if the fluid continues to disappear over an extended cycle. Do it again to reduce the chance of some anomaly like an air pocket that may not have "burped" out yet.

I think maybe you're worried about heat induced detonation. Is this why you persist in filling it with the 1 oz every day?

You're always going to be worried about this. I'm kind of wondering why don't you have the gauges to monitor this? If it's 1 oz a day then even if it is a continuous leak, the cooling capacity is going to taper off gradually. Does your engine have knock sensors? Does your ECU respond to eliminate knock? Even if it doesn't, I imagine you could monitor EGT and (not sure about the feasibility of getting a probe in there) IAT and have plenty of warning that conditions are gradually going south?

If you're going to keep filling it every day then you're never going to find out. Maybe it's not worth solving the problem. You drive the car very infrequently and it seems pretty consistent. Maybe filling it with 1 oz a day isn't worth the trouble of going any further with it?

Design solutions? How can you fix a design problem until you characterize it? If it turns out that the full level is about 1 oz down the filler neck I know that my solution would be to paint a "full->" line about 1 oz down the filler neck.

oops. sorry boss, I was in the middle of one of my half hour compositions when you posted this.

last I saw him he was curled up in the fetal position sucking his thumb and drooling

 

I believe that cam is done. He said himself "follow my instructions or we have nothing more to discuss."

So we should just close it since tech vette is just gonna wax intellectual without trying to fix or diagnose anything and waste everyones time. That and I think ron may have a brain aneurysm. Let cam reopen if need be.

 

Wow....just wow.

 

Thats what I said..


My suggestion is this.

Face the fact that Techo sucks ass and left you and many others out piss'n in the wind.You have no support from them.Some have tried to help and failed.Remove the blower and Move on.All will be well in Vette land once again.

The End Good luck to ya.

 

Well said Cam. By the way, my back itches...

 

Yes he didn't pay for it, he disputed the charges and with no one at techco to talk with he got his money back. For the base kit his car hit the number, but was hoping for more even before the install, and was disappointed when it didn't. There was an oil leak and soem other issues that they had to take care of, but they did. Remember you where one of the first two cars to get it. and it got rushed b/c of complaning they had it for so long.

Have you thought of putting a measured amount in, and if you have to added more over time, than drain it and measure what comes out??

If the pressure test at 22 PSI didn't leak you don't have a leak. Unscrew the filler, that is all it is, from the fuel rail and raise it up to help get the air out. Now you could cut a hole in the hood and mount it way above.

James looks like you are trying to get banned from this site like the others.

So Techco is dead b/c of a lot of people didn't figure out that they where indeed new and short of the need help for the aftermarket automotive business.

 

Sounds to me as if you, sir, are a former employee of Techco? If this is correct, I sure would like to know who you are, because if your Jimmy or Wayne, boy I have several CHOICE words for you piece of sh1t's.

If not, then I have no issue with you!!!!

Oh, and your IP Address comes from Irvine, CA, so I know I am close.

 

wow.....gotta love the new guy.....lmao.

 

only if he is not Jimmy or Wayne. lol

 

I raised the filler as high as it could go. But the blower is the highest point in the engine bay. You can't go any higher without cutting a relief hole in the bottom of the hood. And there was no way in hell I would ever even consider doing that to his car.

BTW, Welcome to the connection!.

 

Depends who it is... lol :ronlove:

 

Ya know.....it seems to me.....that if you have the product,the product works,and you went out of your way to not pay for it....well.....sounds like something a crook would do.

 

Ron, if your hunch is true, after reading the last sentence of the post, which is a synopsis of why they went out of business, and which makes absolutely no grammatical sense whatsoever, it is obvious they were doomed from the start!

Erik.....BAM! Your right on brother~!

 

Man I'd sure like to know!

 

haha Yea, I had a hard time understanding that last sentence as well. lol

 

Is there a trophy for a thread that has been locked and opened this many times??LMAO

 

Kinda like Ron's chastity belt!! fftopic::future::sick:

 

what are you talking about? This thread was only locked once a couple nights ago. This was to give Cam a chance to see comments without growing too fast.

Cam is slow. lol

 

Am I the only one thinking the quantity of fluid fluctuation in all directions is negligible? I know the tolerances are closer for the Corvette application but still the numbers seem silly-small. The overall cooling capacity of the motor can't be impacted by something that tiny. If it is then the fluid capacity of the entire system would be what? A quart? The numbers just don't add up to something worthy of concern.