Help understanding the engine bay

Also, if you drive it before plumbing the heater core up, you'll need to plug the heater lines instead of having them loop. Or you can plug the thermostat bypass temporarily and let the loop on the heater hose act as the bypass. What amounts to two thermostat bypasses letting hot water recirculate usually leads to overheating.

Interesting... I imagine this was driven with looped heater lines for a while before I got it :/ The engine runs well now though. Tomorrow morning I'm installing the heater lines and filling it up to test it out. I should probably read some instructions, but I'm assuming its just topping off the coolant...