FWD Thermostat housing

[Nemesismachine]

Looking for a FWDP thermostat housing. Just spoke to Cindy and they're out with no ETA.

[chromguy]

Looking for a FWDP thermostat housing. Just spoke to Cindy and they're out with no ETA.
Crap, I want one too.

[Kevin_Hemenway]

The last two I bought from rock auto were cast housings not stamped tin like stock very nice in my opinion and very cheap just not as pretty as the fwd one64894

[chromguy]

The last two I bought from rock auto were cast housings not stamped tin like stock very nice in my opinion and very cheap just not as pretty as the fwd onehttp://www.turbo-mopar.com/forums/attachment.php?attachmentid=64894&stc=1

I don't see a cast one, do you have a link?

[tryingbe]

I don't see a cast one, do you have a link?

https://www.autozone.com/cooling-heating-and-climate-control/thermostat/dorman-thermostat-housing-902-3030/848051_0

[chromguy]

https://www.autozone.com/cooling-heating-and-climate-control/thermostat/dorman-thermostat-housing-902-3030/848051_0

Thanks Harry.

[Chris W]

Check with RockAuto. Maybe they will tool up and make some for the community

64900.

Chris-TU

[Nemesismachine]

http://www.turbo-mopar.com/forums/attachment.php?attachmentid=64901&stc=1http://www.turbo-mopar.com/forums/attachment.php?attachmentid=64902&stc=1

[rosie]

Check with RockAuto. Maybe they will tool up and make some for the community

http://www.turbo-mopar.com/forums/attachment.php?attachmentid=64900&stc=1.

Chris-TU

I can't believe in 2020 there still isn't a sarcastic font. Would RockAuto tool up and make these? I searched your site and didn't see them in stock. And if FWDP started making and selling a version of above.... I'd have some feels about that too.

[4 l-bodies]

What came first the chicken or the egg? Or in this case the FWDP version or TU's version of the "billet" 2.2/2.5 thermostat housing. Get a patent, or get over it (lol). Even a patent would be expired by now! Life is too short people. :peace::grouphug:
Todd

[GLHNSLHT2]

Maybe I should machine some up :)

[chromguy]

Maybe I should machine some up :)
Perhaps a good group buy

[4 l-bodies]

Here is a hint to whoever makes some in the future. If you make some machined without color (hard anodizing), get those clear anodized so they last. That is really the point of anodizing, not just to color them for aesthetic purposes. That goes for anyone making anything out of aluminum like thermostat housings, fuel rails, finished intake manifolds, whatchamajigger, etc. If you're know your going to be anodizing something your welding, choose the correct alloy welding rod that will accept anodizing.
Todd

[4 l-bodies]

Maybe I should machine some up :)
Well Jay, maybe with that statement your on "their" list now. Just what our vendors need is another vendor or a wisenheimer (lol). Make sure you make it just like the others, but with one less or one more rib. It will be your own design then, and no one can claim otherwise.
Todd

[Chris W]

What came first the chicken or the egg? Or in this case the FWDP version or TU's version of the "billet" 2.2/2.5 thermostat housing. Get a patent, or get over it (lol). Even a patent would be expired by now! Life is too short people. :peace::grouphug:
Todd

Seems like some mistook our post. It wasnt about having our design copied by another vendor, it was about supporting the vendors who support the community.
Purchasing from the free magnet vendor takes valuable funds from the companies that have been committed to this community for over 20 years. Many complain why we are out of 3" swingvalves and our other unique products. The manufacture of them requires capital that was once made from products being purchased at generic vendors now. They could give a rat's --- about this community.

Sorry for the misunderstanding of our post.

Chris-TU

[Johnny]

Why do venders like FWD Performance and TurbosUnleashed not have these in stock?
MAYBE....they sold out and was not worth making more? Sales slow? Cost to make them vs price needed to sell them and what customers will pay?

MY TAKE...
Sales on many turbo dodge parts I make are slow sellers. Truth, I have sold more in the last 2 months than I have sold in the last 3 years.
ALSO...on some parts there is a large cost to tool-up/molds/etc...some times hard to justify.
I did make something new a couple years ago. Put it out there "who would want these?"...many, many people said they wanted them.....sold less than 10. They sit on the shelf.
Take the SDAC car shows I have been to. 90 percent have cheap Chinese mounts on your cars. Why should I keep making good ones?

So when you cant find "the good stuff" because everyone buys cheap stuff, why would the FWD Dodge venters spend time and money to develop or keep making things you want?

[Nemesismachine]

Chris, no offense taken.

I spoke with Chris earlier today about these. I bought a couple 15 years ago or so with the intent of fixing my Horizon up. When I got out of that car, I started selling off my inventory of parts because of a massive vendor f*ck up. That fire sale included 2 of these housings I had purchased. When I started this post here no vendors had one available anymore, so I bought one from the here's-a-free-magnet-because-your-order-is-never-shipped-right company. This wasn't a dig at our vendors, since a couple of them are stand up. The housing I found was a decent alternative to a NLA product.

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Check with RockAuto. Maybe they will tool up and make some for the community

http://www.turbo-mopar.com/forums/attachment.php?attachmentid=64900&stc=1.

Chris-TU

This forum software needs a like button. :thumb:

[Kevin_Hemenway]

I was under the impression rockauto was an approved vendor for this forum. I'm sorry I brought them up just trying to help annother enthusiast get a product somil6to what they wanted.

[rosie]

Thanks for continuing to stock the parts you guys do.
What should we do about the T-stat housing?

[Nemesismachine]

I was under the impression rockauto was an approved vendor for this forum...

They are. I mentioned what I did because I always have issues when ordering from them. Gaskets that fall apart like playing card gum, mismatched brake calipers, parts cut open, etc.

[wheming]

I went searching for the TU thermostat housing some time ago also. I wanted at least 2. But I understand why they don't get remade when the inventory is gone.
It is a shame since there are a good number of us who have been in this a while, and we are all older with better incomes. But there are still alot of newer folks or younger folks getting interested in these classics that are still thrifty out of necessity.
And it is also a shame we don't have a following like some the mainstream car (brand/type) clubs that actually could get any products they want developed. But then our SDAC events would be a complete mad house!

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[chromguy]

And it is also a shame we don't have a following like some the mainstream car (brand/type) clubs that actually could get any products they want developed. But then our SDAC events would be a complete mad house!
My daughter is also a car enthusiast, she has a WRX and her BF has an STI....It is crazy the amount of stuff they can buy!!!
In fact, she tests prototype mods for local vendors..
A totally different world.

[Aries_Turbo]

you should see all the crazy crap i can get for my honda. its ridiculous. ill still make a bunch of stuff turbo mopar style for it though lol.

Brian

[GLHNSLHT2]

Well Jay, maybe with that statement your on "their" list now. Just what our vendors need is another vendor or a wisenheimer (lol). Make sure you make it just like the others, but with one less or one more rib. It will be your own design then, and no one can claim otherwise.
Todd

Kinda hard to differenciate (spelling) much on a T-stat housing. Both vendors look pretty close to the same with more or less ribs than the other had. I'd much rather buy one of these from a vendor than making one at the price point they sold them at. My comment was more in jest than anything. But if the vendors aren't going to make them ever again what do I do, use a stupid stamped steel piece or make my own?


Seems like some mistook our post. It wasnt about having our design copied by another vendor, it was about supporting the vendors who support the community.
Purchasing from the free magnet vendor takes valuable funds from the companies that have been committed to this community for over 20 years. Many complain why we are out of 3" swingvalves and our other unique products. The manufacture of them requires capital that was once made from products being purchased at generic vendors now. They could give a rat's --- about this community.

Sorry for the misunderstanding of our post.

Chris-TU

If TU, FWDP, polybushings or Foward motion has what I want then I'll gladly get it from them. But on the other had a lot of my stuff is completely custom.

I really did try to use TU's wastegage bracket.
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But in the end had to make my own so I could clear the firewall


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[135sohc]

A simple part but still at least two operations and a lot of expensive thickness ending up as chips in the dump cart.

[Goforthz28]

It would be a pretty entertaining lathe project. I was thinking about making one for myself. It would be a lot simpler to keep the base round so that it overhangs the waterbox on the head. Or possibly just make 1 face cut to make the top level with the waterbox.

but you are right, it is a large chunk of round stock. I dunno if a thick wall tube extrusion would be any cheaper to purchase...

~Mark