I feel retarded posting this, but I have been searching for a while and am pretty frustrated with it. What the hell is this metal pipe i circled in the attached photo. is it simply a radiator hose, i know it comes out of the water pump. only reason i ask is because my 2000 Z28 doesnt have it, only a regular hose. is it important? Thanks for the help.

 

Aftermarket connection someone made. I'll have to do that to my new build because the inlet and outlet are two different sizes.

 

oh ok, so its not a stock part? i saw it on my buddies camaro, but never thought twice about it until the other day when i realized i didnt have that hose on my car.

 

that's the blinker fluid line

 

I have one in my 98 ss as well

 

+1, although it looks like that one in the picture is polished.

 

I do not believe it is a cooler, but i could be dead wrong. If its for coolent from water pump to rad it is not stock.

 

+1 on the oil cooler. I have one on my Z as well. looks very nice when its polished.

 

WRONG. It is a power steering cooler, found hit and miss on the early LS1 SS cars and they eventually made it standard on all LS1 F bodies.

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I do not want to drag this out but i am learning too.
Since when is a p/s cooler a near 1.5" D tube and have a radiator hose clamp?

Bigger picture is here...

http://www.gmhightechperformance.com.../photo_05.html

 

lol guys, its a power steering cooler...the rad cools it down. i had to take mine off...it is more of a heat exchanger, it had two power stterin hoses mounted to the bottom of it that you cant see. they work for **** and take up room. but it is the power steering cooler lol

 

Thanks for clearing it up, i expected to see smaller tubing and a radiator for the p/s cooler.
Learn something everyday

 

lol yes that is true...there more of a heat soaking pos but they do work good for a extention...

 

here is a good pic of what ur talkin about.well thats good, i dont have to worry about that crap. thanks for the help guys.

 

yep my car has one as well, power steering cooler

 

And I would disconnect that thing before it fails and starts exchanging fluid with your radiator taking out your PS pump and causing you to do a radiator flush too..... An all too common problem.....

 

sorry for bringing this back from the dead, but im doing the vertical griffen rad RIGHT NOW, so i just cut the rubber hose coming from the steering rack and put it into the power steering reservior port??

 

sounds like you guys havent done a cam swap yet..... where you would def figure out what this is. ps cooler

 

i know what it is, im just wondering in i actually need it. since i wont be doing any road racing.

 

Nobody "needs" the stock ps cooler.

If your doing any kind of road racing where the ps fluid gets hot enough to need a ps cooler, you have already maxed out the capabilities of the stocker.

As others have said, this peice is more of a liability than an asset because it will fail. Not "if" but "when". And it will cause more problems than it helps.