[DeTomaso] Bulkhead Reduction Kit

[Ken Green]

Everyone I've talked to about the Mezier (SP?) electric water pumps loves them.  Never fail, more reliable than the belt and mechanical pumps.  They claim 2500+ hours life.  That's a lot of miles.
 
I have one but haven't used it yet.
 
Ken

--- On Wed, 9/23/09, Thomas Tornblom <Thomas.Tornblom at hax.se> wrote:


From: Thomas Tornblom <Thomas.Tornblom at hax.se>
Subject: Re: [DeTomaso] Bulkhead Reduction Kit
To: "Ken Green" <kenn_green at yahoo.com>
Cc: detomaso at realbig.com, "Thomas Tornblom" <Thomas.Tornblom at hax.se>
Date: Wednesday, September 23, 2009, 1:45 PM


Ken Green skrev:
> Why not just use a remote electric water pump. 

That is one option, but I'm not convinced the ones available are as reliable as old-school belt driven pumps. OTOH I'm using an electrical high pressure fuel pump without hesitating, but those have been used for ages on millions of cars.

I guess that is coming though. I see that even electrical oil pumps will be used on coming generation motors, to reduce drag and lower fuel consumption. That would be neat, pre-luber for free.

Electrical power steering is the norm on modern cars also for the much the same reasons.

>  Ken

Thomas

> 
> --- On *Wed, 9/23/09, Thomas Tornblom /<Thomas.Tornblom at hax.se>/* wrote:
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> 
>     From: Thomas Tornblom <Thomas.Tornblom at hax.se>
>     Subject: Re: [DeTomaso] Bulkhead Reduction Kit
>     To: detomaso at realbig.com
>     Date: Wednesday, September 23, 2009, 1:25 PM
> 
>     Has anyone tried to make a shorter water pump to reduce the hump even
>     further? Looking at the pulley it seems that the shaft could be
>     shortened about 2" without relocating the belt, and by using the rear
>     track on the rotary compressor, and/or using a shorter crank pulley it
>     could be moved back another 3/4" or so.
> 
>     Thomas
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