ProComp/Speedmaster aluminum heads

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pittsburghracer said:
Years ago some of the best sex was in my shop while working on the race car back when I was married. My deer hunting tree stand in my yard was pretty good too.
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lol My wife doesn't step foot in the shop, soo no...... in the shop. lol
When she was in her 20's I couldn't keep her from driving the 67 fastback. she was a terror of the street and track.
You know them fastbacks have a lot of room in the back. lol
 
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fishmens67 said:
lol My wife doesn't step foot in the shop, soo no...... in the shop. lol
When she was in 20's I couldn't keep her from driving the 67 fastback. she was a terror of the street and track.
You know them fastbacks have a lot of room in the back. lol
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Ohhh I know. My first car was a 1970 Ford Maverick. Lol.
 
pittsburghracer said:
Ohhh I know. My first car was a 1970 Ford Maverick. Lol.
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My best friends first car was a 70 Maverick.. I took my driving test in it.. I couldn't use my car because the doors didn't work.. 73 javelin.... I remember throwing up all over the side of that Maverick on the freeway LOL..
 
Got my new starter cover...
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yellow rose said:
They ain’t cheap. That’s for sure. And hard to get too.
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All it takes is money and a phone call. From what I hear more and more Ritter blocks are going out the door with most of the issues addressed. I may make a call one of these days. Kinda scary only having one R3 block. Ohhh and I would probably order a cast iron one.
 
yellow rose said:
Where did you get the pulleys? I love the fact that the water pump pulley is smaller than the crank pulley.
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Actually they're the same size which they do call an overdrive. The regular crank pulley is smaller. I do have a much smaller March performance crank pulley that I used when I had my electric water pump on because that factory pulley would run the alternator too fast and fly off.. but the factory stuff in the picture the crank was maybe a half inch smaller than the water pump so I will actually gain a little bit...
Cvf racing...
 
j par said:
Actually they're the same size which they do call an overdrive. The regular crank pulley is smaller. I do have a much smaller March performance crank pulley that I used when I had my electric water pump on because that factory pulley would run the alternator too fast and fly off.. but the factory stuff in the picture the crank was maybe a half inch smaller than the water pump so I will actually gain a little bit...
Cvf racing...
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The picture is throwing me off. The WP pulley looked smaller to me. Damn glasses.

I have the CVF Pulleys but somehow they dug around and found a WP pulley that is 6% overdriven and that’s what I bought.

I want to get something in the 12-15% overdriven size if I can.
 
YR
why do you want to spin the water pump faster???????
don't you just want to get the impeller closer to the timing cover(More effective) and turn it slower...........
I guess a street car with a fan blade attached to it.....it would be helpful.../?
 
yellow rose said:
The picture is throwing me off. The WP pulley looked smaller to me. Damn glasses.

I have the CVF Pulleys but somehow they dug around and found a WP pulley that is 6% overdriven and that’s what I bought.

I want to get something in the 12-15% overdriven size if I can.
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I think the deal is there calling mine an overdrive because the drive pulley is actually bigger than the factory one buy 1/4 inch... Both are now six and a half inches across. The single groove pulley Factory is 6 and 3/4. Now my March performance one is 5 and a quarter inches and it's an underdrive. Giving more easier RPM to the motor...
 
Cudafever said:
YR
why do you want to spin the water pump faster???????
don't you just want to get the impeller closer to the timing cover(More effective) and turn it slower...........
I guess a street car with a fan blade attached to it.....it would be helpful.../?
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In my opinion without the whirling blade of death as I call it on there it's not robbing much horsepower at all. I'm a huge fan of electric fans. I'm tired of that death blade in my engine..
 
Cudafever said:
YR
why do you want to spin the water pump faster???????
don't you just want to get the impeller closer to the timing cover(More effective) and turn it slower...........
I guess a street car with a fan blade attached to it.....it would be helpful.../?
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Faster water pump speed increases the flow of coolant. That’s one way to control coolant temp, and if you like to run as much compression on pump gas as I do, that’s a big factor in being able to do it. You can’t run 11:1 on pump gas and have coolant temps of 195 or higher.

I run my junk at 170 and would have done 160 but at that point, on sub freezing days I won’t have much defrost or heat function. So I went with 170.
 
j par said:
In my opinion without the whirling blade of death as I call it on there it's not robbing much horsepower at all. I'm a huge fan of electric fans. I'm tired of that death blade in my engine..
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Yeah, I may switch to an electric fan. Maybe. If I can I’m going to test my fan on the dyno.
 
yellow rose said:
Faster water pump speed increases the flow of coolant. That’s one way to control coolant temp, and if you like to run as much compression on pump gas as I do, that’s a big factor in being able to do it. You can’t run 11:1 on pump gas and have coolant temps of 195 or higher.

I run my junk at 170 and would have done 160 but at that point, on sub freezing days I won’t have much defrost or heat function. So I went with 170.
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Heat? Defrost?...
 
yellow rose said:
Yeah, I may switch to an electric fan. Maybe. If I can I’m going to test my fan on the dyno.
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I just bought yet another electric fan. I have been running to 12 inch fans for years now. I'm just tired of their performance. When I was at the swap meet in January I bought a fan as a third fan but it's used and I'm not sure of its capabilities. so I bought a brand new puller. It got good ratings will see. I want something to keep it at the temperatures I see when I'm on the highway with no fans..
 
fishmens67 said:
I guess he loads the snowboard on the roof of the Dart and goes boarding . lol or he tows his snow mobiles
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LOL. We get many days over here that are sunny and cold. I know thanksgiving of 2014 it was clear and the weather was in the mid teens for the high. And I drove the car over to the sister in laws house for dinner. The wife and kid bitched about it, but I used my ***** cancelling ear mode and said get in or drive yourself.

So yeah, when the pile of junk is running I drive it year round. I was hoping to be on the dyno this month, but I’m so busy with other people’s stuff I’ve opened the box of my new head gaskets to verify they are right and haven’t touched my junk.
 
yellow rose said:
Faster water pump speed increases the flow of coolant. That’s one way to control coolant temp, and if you like to run as much compression on pump gas as I do, that’s a big factor in being able to do it. You can’t run 11:1 on pump gas and have coolant temps of 195 or higher.

I run my junk at 170 and would have done 160 but at that point, on sub freezing days I won’t have much defrost or heat function. So I went with 170.
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Is the drive to pump physically bigger than the water pump?...
 
no water to the heater core and no thermostat and not street driven. my electric water pump turn way slow but keep things under control at the track.........may not work on the street......
Set the water pump impeller tight to the timing cover by having a 1/4" plate of alu welded in and then machined back so the impeller just slightly scraped the timing housing with out a gasket. Threw a gasket on it and never looked back. I moves a lot of water.......but not so good if you have to run a t stat.
 
Cudafever said:
no water to the heater core and no thermostat and not street driven. my electric water pump turn way slow but keep things under control at the track.........may not work on the street......
Set the water pump impeller tight to the timing cover by having a 1/4" plate of alu welded in and then machined back so the impeller just slightly scraped the timing housing with out a gasket. Threw a gasket on it and never looked back. I moves a lot of water.......but not so good if you have to run a t stat.
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I was so tempted to put my electric water pump back on.. it seemed to move quite a bit of water.. but the majority of the driving it sees in the summer is on the street. I've been aiming towards being able to take it on longer trips and I just felt a mechanical pump would be more dependable in the long run... I personally run distilled water with a bottle of redline water wetter, a gutted thermostat, and no bypass... It's a remanufactured water pump, but it has a pentagon on it and has serial numbers for some fancy 340 car...
I took the heater core and heater box out years ago and never look back. I don't drive it except for on nice days...
 
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