[DeTomaso] Bulkhead Reduction Kit

Kirby Schrader kirby.schrader at gmail.com
Wed Sep 23 17:01:53 EDT 2009


Meziere

I certainly like the one on my GT40. When it fails, I'll let you know!
:-)

I plan to put a remote pump on the Pantera (if I ever get it back!) to
get rid of the hump.



On Wed, Sep 23, 2009 at 3:59 PM, Ken Green <kenn_green at yahoo.com> wrote:
> 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:
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> 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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