[DeTomaso] Bulkhead Reduction Kit

[Tomas Gunnarsson]

A fellow Swede had one installed a couple of years ago. Did not cut it on the Autobahn so he went back to belt drive.

Tomas
----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Ken Green" <kenn_green at yahoo.com>
To: "Thomas Tornblom" <Thomas.Tornblom at hax.se>
Cc: <detomaso at realbig.com>
Sent: Wednesday, September 23, 2009 10:59 PM
Subject: Re: [DeTomaso] Bulkhead Reduction Kit


> 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:
>> 
>> 
>> 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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