You're right of course. Van cafe looks like the winner here. 

Of course I won't mention my uneasiness of adding stainless to the cooling system, I don't want to bring up that dissimilar metal, galvanic series, argument again.

Oh oh, did I just do it?

Cheers

Alistair

> On May 20, 2014, at 6:15 PM, Stacy Schneider <vwcrewman@gmail.com> wrote:
> 
>    Buy a S S piece new from you Fav vendor and put your creative juices to something you can't buy . 
> 
> 
>                                Stacy
> 
> Sent from my iPhone
> 
>> On May 20, 2014, at 17:00, Alistair Bell <albell@SHAW.CA> wrote:
>> 
>> This discussion making me nervous, I still have stock plastic distribution tower in my syncro. I'd like to make an aluminum replacement but I don't have a syncro tower in hand to copy. Any chance anyone has measurements or can take measurements so that I could make one?
>> 
>> I could buy one... I suppose.
>> 
>> Thanks
>> 
>> Alistair
>> 
>> 
>>> On May 20, 2014, at 3:07 PM, mark drillock <mdrillock@COX.NET> wrote:
>>> 
>>> For sure, if you have the money and time to replace everything at once
>>> then the sky is the limit. I find that the same logic gets applied in
>>> reverse so I avoid using that logic too much. By that I mean if people
>>> think it is wasteful to replace aging critical parts unless they are
>>> also replacing a bunch of other stuff or doing other work in the same
>>> area then they put off the more critical work until they "can do it all
>>> at once". I see that happen all the time and sometimes in the mirror.
>>> The cooling system parts that fail most often on a trip are the ones
>>> closest to the engine. If you can't do it all at least start there.
>>> 
>>> Mark
>>> 
>>> John Schwartz wrote:
>>>> Just got done doing this job too!!!
>>>> 
>>>>>