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I got Hose

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Water cooling is cool, if you are an engine, but what is uncool is manky old cooling hoses. Enter super cool blue (which is a cool colour) SAMCO cooling hoses! I had ordered a full SAMCO hose kit for the NSR with the HRC conversion front hose from JAP4performance along with some nice, shiny Tyga performance parts. The hoses were to arrive seperately decause the custom hose had to be made special but they proved to be very slow coming with the initial excuse being 'they had already sent one' changing to 'they hadn't made one yet'. This continued for a year before Gavin from Jap4Performance sent me a genuine HRC hose with the standard SAMCO kit as a good will gesture to tide me over till SAMCO pulled their fingers out. Changing hoses isn't rocket science: You just take a hose off and replace it with one of the same shape. If you haven't drained your coolant you might want to do that too. The new hoses don't just look good. The old hoses were sta