Plumbing coolant to center freeze plug

Hey, Im sorry I know this is an old thread but i was curious... could you run the NPT lines thru the drain plug already there? Or it would be too low and too quick to take the coolant back to the pump?
I think that would be too small of a passage and too far away from where you need the extra cooling. I ended up using the freeze plug closest to the timing cover and have an elbow threaded on the inside of my aluminum plugs that point up to between the exhaust ports. I haven't fired the motor yet, so I can't report on if it works or not yet.