Intercooler Pump - need advice
11-24-2007, 05:27 PM
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Intercooler Pump - need advice
I think my intercooler pump is on the fritz, or is at least on its way out. It's the one that came with the Andy Keel kit, which I think is a bilge pump for a boat and also has a rubber impeller.
I'm looking for suggestions about what to replace it with that might be better suited for the task? I seem to recall someone having put in a much more robust and expensive pump, but I couldn't find the post/link.
Any suggestions?
I'm looking for suggestions about what to replace it with that might be better suited for the task? I seem to recall someone having put in a much more robust and expensive pump, but I couldn't find the post/link.
Any suggestions?
11-24-2007, 10:47 PM
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Hi Brian:
Dave Lomas (Ketchmi) recommended a pump to me. Expensive and more robust like you said. I'll go out to the storage area and let you know more about it tomorrow.
Dave Lomas (Ketchmi) recommended a pump to me. Expensive and more robust like you said. I'll go out to the storage area and let you know more about it tomorrow.
11-29-2007, 09:32 AM
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I am using a Deadenbear pump as a replacement for the one that came with Andy's kit. Link attached: http://store.summitracing.com/partde...5&autoview=sku
The primary concern that I had with Andy's pump was that it used a rubber impeller. I still have the old pump if the Deadenbear is out of your price range.
I installed the pump on the back of the front rebar and then also upgraded the heat exhanger to a used Yahamha 650 radiator with fan. I tied that fan into my thermal switch so that the heat exchanger and raditor fans come on at 180 degrees.
Hope this helps.
Ken
The primary concern that I had with Andy's pump was that it used a rubber impeller. I still have the old pump if the Deadenbear is out of your price range.
I installed the pump on the back of the front rebar and then also upgraded the heat exhanger to a used Yahamha 650 radiator with fan. I tied that fan into my thermal switch so that the heat exchanger and raditor fans come on at 180 degrees.
Hope this helps.
Ken
11-29-2007, 08:50 PM
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Ken, do you find that it pulls water over the fender well alright?
I put the pump supplied by Andy in the right-side fender space under the headlight bucket, and have trouble with the thing losing its prime and just cavitating instead of pulling coolant.
I put the pump supplied by Andy in the right-side fender space under the headlight bucket, and have trouble with the thing losing its prime and just cavitating instead of pulling coolant.
11-30-2007, 07:03 PM
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Brian:
I didn't run my lines over the top of the fender inner liner.
I drilled a hole at the very bottom of the windshiled reservoir and ran a 90 degree connector along the bottom edge of the inner liner and then drilled an appropriate size hole at the point where it runs under the right "frame rail" and then pulled the line in under that extruded portion. So the intercooler reservoir is always higher than where I have the pump mounted. The Deadenbear pump is not self priming. I did have a little problem getting the air out the lines the first time but since then I've never had a problem. When I turn on the key I can hear the water actually cascade back into the top of the resrvoir. The deadenbear pump is very quiet. It also draws only 3 amps.
I'm very impressed with it after a year of driving and DE work.
Ken
I didn't run my lines over the top of the fender inner liner.
I drilled a hole at the very bottom of the windshiled reservoir and ran a 90 degree connector along the bottom edge of the inner liner and then drilled an appropriate size hole at the point where it runs under the right "frame rail" and then pulled the line in under that extruded portion. So the intercooler reservoir is always higher than where I have the pump mounted. The Deadenbear pump is not self priming. I did have a little problem getting the air out the lines the first time but since then I've never had a problem. When I turn on the key I can hear the water actually cascade back into the top of the resrvoir. The deadenbear pump is very quiet. It also draws only 3 amps.
I'm very impressed with it after a year of driving and DE work.
Ken
