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Looking to buy a set of heater tubes, with out the EGR port for a 93 cobra.

I'm aware that LMR has a reproduction, hoping to find an OEM set
 

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i just got one, havent had the chance to install it yet, but it looks pretty good
 

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Here is the one I got to replace the OEM. Yes you can tell the difference, see the neck of the sensor, the bends are slightly different looking, and there are extra welds in the supports. BUT very few will know, and it will hold water, which the one off my car, no longer did (rust, must have straight water for a period of time). I'll be using it for sure.


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Looks decent to me, just one of those inevitable replacements that are bound to happen 30 years later.
 

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Unless it leaks at the o ring, proper maintenance will certainly prevent what happened to mine (ours was used on track, the team may have run straight water, as glycol is slippery on track, when retired, was probably forgotten about, then rusted)
 

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That looks pretty good to me, by the time its installed with everything around it, i doubt you will notice its different. fingers crossed that it doesn't leak.

and as a racer myself, you are correct, no track lets you run antifreeze, only water wetter. antifreeze might as well be glare ice when you get into it while racing...very dangerous.
 

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Will be tough to see, agreed. And I do hope it doesn't leak.

SCCA road racer here too since 1993

That looks pretty good to me, by the time its installed with everything around it, i doubt you will notice its different. fingers crossed that it doesn't leak.

and as a racer myself, you are correct, no track lets you run antifreeze, only water wetter. antifreeze might as well be glare ice when you get into it while racing...very dangerous.
 

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I just installed mine, and everything fit perfectly. I haven't filled it with coolant yet, so I don't know about leaks yet, but so far so good.
 

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Good to hear it is working great. I'm about to plug the hoses back in and see if it leaks. When I purchased the car, the original owner tied both rubber hoses together so the car wouldn't have heating. So every time I take the car for a spin on a winter day, it is pretty darn cold inside the car. Plus once summer rolls around, I also have no A/C. I'm going to reconnect the hoses and see if anything leaks.
 

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be ready with some towels, he most likely did that because the heater core is bad and he didn't want to rip the dash out to replace it.
 

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