Today I started work on fitting a Davies Craig electric water pump to my XFlow turbo. I recently installed a Revotec electric radiator fan and found it to be too tight of a fit with the OE water pump. Others may not run into this issue as the fan I used had to be of a 'suck' type and mounted inside the engine bay as I have a small intercooler mounted in the front panel in front of the radiator.
So I ordered today the small EWP80 pump as its suitable for up to around 2 litre engines with mine being a 1.3 pumping out ~110 BHP, plus it can be fitted inline with the pipes as its small and light enough (doesn't require a mounting bracket unlike the larger pumps). I also ordered an extra right angle adapter as when I was eye balling the pump position taking into account how I'd do the piping, figured it might fit best using two right angle adapters.
I intend to fit the pump towards the front of the engine bay near the floor, ideally so the pump inlet is close to the radiator outlet, with the pump outlet pointing towards the OE water pump inlet. After some scavenging today I found an old water pump which I will strip and use as an adapter rather than faffing with trying to fabricate something new. To clarify the old pump won't actually function, but solely act as a coolant inlet into the block, none of the internals will be present and the shaft will be cut off and welded up.
Here are some photos I took today when I was stripping down the old pump. The new electric pump is due to arrive tomorrow so will post some more progress if I find time.
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