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Have you decided on your water pump yet?
Regards
Dave

No not yet, the KAD on is the favourite for reliability as I haven't heard anything bad about them apart from the price!! And TBH I really don't fancy spending £180 on a water pump.

Ive had a look into sourcing others from renault 19's etc but still not sure on flow rates. Im trying to find out the flow rate of a standard mechanical pump so I can use tht as a guide to buying an electric one.

Nic's also looking into a few aswell, but think he's in the same situation with regards to specing the right pump with the right flow rate.

Any suggestions?

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Nic have gotten a PM from me. Food for though there. Its not too expensive either...

Daveys Craig do an external electric pump with flow controler at a reasonable price

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I've seen around a dozen of the Daveys Craig pump fail in the last 2 years

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Really??? Don`t tell me that Jim, i`ve bought one for the Turbo Alloy V8 mini.

My mate who runs a speedway sprint car has been running them on all 3 of his cars for years & hasn`t had a problem, heaps of other mates run them in all sorts of race cars all over Aust & i havn`t heard of a problem with any of them till you said that.

maybe there is good quality Aussie made ones & crap chinese ones yeah???

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sorry matt, hopefully you'll have more luck than the miglia guys do.

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i've also heard from my RR guy that he's had no end fail.

i'm going for the stewart one or maybe a bosch one.

Managed to finish fitting the rest of the parts now.

Oil return with fittings.



Oil return fitted.



Timing tesioner/water inlet fitted





All ready to be fitted tomorrow!

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looking very nice!!! well done

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most exciting !!

Medusa + injection = too much torque for the dyno ..https://youtu.be/qg5o0_tJxYM

looks really good!! coming on nicly indeed

David.

Matty, looking good ,BUT,,, i don`t like your oil drain from the turbo, it reduces along the way & it`s best you have it expanding - larger along the way down, if you get my drift?

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On 23rd of Dec, 2007 at 07:50pm matty said:

Edited by Nic on 23rd Dec, 2007.

yeah good point nic , i assumed mat was going to wrap all the parts near heat ,but if not matt , id deff wrap those oil pies or the manifold ,so it doesnt melt the teflon liner in the braided pipe .,may never happen but hey ,whats a bit of pipe wrap or loft insulation wrapped in tin foil going to cost !!

Medusa + injection = too much torque for the dyno ..https://youtu.be/qg5o0_tJxYM

The water hoses would be an absolute PITA to fit in place (if it is possible at all). There are a few places I can route them without them getting to close to the manifold just don't want to cut into my nice new shiney hose yet till its in the car and all measured up.

Matt - The oil drain should hopefully be ok as it is still 4 times the bore size of the feed and it is well vented aswell. In an ideal world I would have it a consistant bore size as you say, i'll just try it and see what happens.

Oh yeah no engine fitting today. Been feeling rough all day and been trying to recover to go out tonight!

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Looking nice there mate, really must crack on with mine some time soon.

What turbo are you using?

Hi,
Looks like a Saab GT 1752 from what I can see?
Cheers,
Gavin :)

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Its the GT1752, seems to be a nice efficient turbo.

Hows your build coming along Mike?

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are you going to use the thermoinsulation on the manifold? to keep temps down and to save your water hoses ?

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Managed to get some more done despite feeling rough...lol

Before..



I decided to try Nics method of fitting the engine as I didn't have access to a hoist.

One clap of the hands later...



A few more hours later, unfortunately clapping of hands didn't seem to work for the rest.

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Hi,
It's in! 8)
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looking good! surly not going to be very very long till its all done

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1/4mile in 13.2sec @ 111 terminal on 15psi

loving this build! keep it up, the cheap electric water pump will be a good one to know if you and nic can get it figured out, Good luck and great build, bee watching for a while but im pretty sure this is my first post on it!

Cheers, James.