I'm currently building my motor over the winter and came across the topic of water pumps with a friend.

I have researched for the past few weeks only to have a lot of the older V8 drag racers tell me to stay away. There seemed to be a lot of reliability issues a few years back with these.

If you have any insight or anything to add, please feel free to add your .02 cents.

 

Lukes has gone well over 20k miles at this point. The thing is setting it up to where it works and the heater works, and....

ITs worth about 10-15whp or so from our testing at the 520whp level. I dont think its going to go up though (power gained) when the power goes up in the motor. I think its fixed not linear.

 

Does it also reduce weight in the car?

 

It's not really a mod geared towards saving/cutting weight.

 

It might actually add weight since you gut the stock waterpump housing and then add the electric pump and wiring. It does add consistent cooling independent of rpm though which is the main advantage to me. I can turn the boost up a pound and make 15whp

 

I guess hooking up the heater core would be a PITA. In that case its not for me. A heater is a MUST for me.

 

AAron, do you offer/recommend any (EWP) ?


Tks

 

didnt i see something at one point about buschur putting together a "kit" to do this. idk i havnt heard of anyone having bad experiences with them in our cars.a few big names use them so why not.

 

We use the Stewart pump with good success for our kits.

Aaron

 

is there a kit available from any vendor?

 

Ahem...yes I still need to finish the instruction sheets but we can have one ready to go pretty easy.

 

ygpm

 

It is about a dyno proven 15 WHP gain on the Vette C6 Z06, I almost got one. Sometimes you have to take risks, I suggest you do this mod, it is definately proven.

Carlos

 

any pics?

 

they dont offer it on their website but if you contact him he will set you up with the "kit"..thats what i did