Reply to "Electric water pump?"

joules"Racing is Life, anything before or after is just waiting" - Steve McQueen

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Originally posted by Cowboy from Hell:

The engineers at Ford gave the Ford GT a 100 GPM pump in order to provide enough circulation at 200 MPH. They chose a crank driven pump however. The SAE paper is #2004-01-1257.

....I was put-off by the fact that the manufacturers of electric pumps only warranted their pumps for 200 hours, or claimed they needed rebuilding frequently. Has this situation improved? How many hours of operation are the pumps you guys are using rated for?

-G

That's 100 gpm at peak power, probably not much different than a high volume 351C pump? Despite the 'engineered' cooling system their are a number of Ford GT owners reporting cooling issues with spirited track driving, agreed that the pump is not at the heart of the problem though. I have that white paper if anyone wants a copy e-mailed, it's 900KB so too big to post here.

Meziere electric pumps have a life expectancy of 2500+ hours.

Julian

12/25/102:20 PM

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