Davies Craig currently sell an electric water pump for street use which is guaranteed for some 20,000 hours. I currently run one in my 1974 GTS with no mechanical water pump at all and temperature rarely gets above 210 degrees.
Also, one problem of spinning a mechanical water pump too fast is cavitation.
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