Thread: 496ci possible cooling issue

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I don't have much faith in cobbled-up electric fan systems and even less faith in electric water pumps. They might be great for cycling a little water through the radiator on the trip from the top end back to the pits, but to run one on a full time basis is just silly to me. Do you have any idea what the pumping capacity of the pump is?

If I were building this motor, it would have an Milodon 16225 engine-driven water pump, conventional steel vee-belt driven 18" diameter, 7-blade fan with thermostatically-controlled fan clutch, full shroud and a Milodon 16401 180 degree thermostat. BULLETPROOF.

You guys who thing you're making hp with an electric water pump and electric fans are just fooling yourselves. It takes the same amount of horsepower to move a volume of water or a volume of air, no matter whether you do it mechanically or electrically.

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