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I am in the process of moving my radiator to the rear for my track car, to give the car some more room in the engine bay.

I will probably keep the factory pump, as a fail safe, and add another one in the rear to assist with flow. I have not had much experience with these pump. Hear some good and bad news about Davies Craig.

Is this EWP115 Alloy (12V) Part No: 8040 pump any good?

What is the best water pump to use?

Thanks again

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I highly recommend reading this build thread on gtr.co.uk, I believe they are running 2 Davies Craig pumps (no factory water pump) in a push pull arrangement with their rear rad arrangement.

Might even be some parts you might fancy :)

http://www.gtr.co.uk/forum/141029-rktuning-new-race-car-build.html

Yes I saw that thread recently. After fixing on the idea of putting up the radiator I googled around for Garage Saurus and found that thread.

I don't like the way they routed their air intake and exit. If you also read carefully they ran into problem with the 2 electric water pump...^_* I rather still stick with one mechanical pump as one of the fail safe methods ;)

The only thing I want from that car is the rear chromoly subframe. The front looks iffy.

Oh the electric power steering pump is sweet too

Edited by 9krpm

Is this EWP115 Alloy (12V) Part No: 8040 pump any good?

I have one of these but I'm still putting everything together with my build so I can't comment, but I have read the EWP115 is a lot better than the old model which was made out of some crappy plastic / composite material which used to crack frequently.

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