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Old 2010-01-20, 01:58 PM   #64
GST Mike
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Car: Zee L
 
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Originally Posted by sperry View Post
I always wondered about the trade-off between ditching the drag from the mechanical waterpump and effectively moving it over to the alternator. Not to mention the hassle of adding a pulley or re-routing the timing belt in order to run w/o the WP.
Well the trick is to maintain the water pump housing and pulley without the internals

The main issues really related to location of the pump (they have somewhat specific criteria) and managing the flow to maintain proper cooling.

As the car sits being bathed in the rain currently the car makes 658whp and has to have 2/3rds of the radiator covered for me to even be able to dyno it.

Mike
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