Horse Power and Torque
Well bad news, good news and more bad news. On my way to college this morning (where I work and where the chassis dyno was going to be) I jumped on the car hard about a mile from the college, it pulled hard thru first, second and than a loud bang. I lost power steering so I figured I tossed a belt to the steering pump. As I was pulling in the lot the car shot up to 220 degrees so maybe I tossed the water pump belt also. Boy was I wrong, the water pump fan and pulley snout broke, which in turn put the fan into my maybe 3 month old aluminum radiator. The good news is I was able to get my stock radiator (which I changed in favor of an aluminum radiator do to this one needing a bit of work) from my house, a used flex fan which I despise and a new water pump to get the car up and running again. The bad news again was I was not able to put the car up on the dyno. I finished at about 2:30 but he had about 5 cars plus a motorcycle ahead of me and he was shutting the dyno down a 4:00. So there is always the end of next semester when he will be back and I'll give it ago then. I have never seen a water pump break the way this one did, maybe bad casting who knows it was only about 5 months old. But at least I was able to drive it back home this evening with minimal out of pocket cost. Time to get on the internet and find a 7 blade fan and purchase a new radiator.
Kevin
Well bad news, good news and more bad news. On my way to college this morning (where I work and where the chassis dyno was going to be) I jumped on the car hard about a mile from the college, it pulled hard thru first, second and than a loud bang. I lost power steering so I figured I tossed a belt to the steering pump. As I was pulling in the lot the car shot up to 220 degrees so maybe I tossed the water pump belt also. Boy was I wrong, the water pump fan and pulley snout broke, which in turn put the fan into my maybe 3 month old aluminum radiator. The good news is I was able to get my stock radiator (which I changed in favor of an aluminum radiator do to this one needing a bit of work) from my house, a used flex fan which I despise and a new water pump to get the car up and running again. The bad news again was I was not able to put the car up on the dyno. I finished at about 2:30 but he had about 5 cars plus a motorcycle ahead of me and he was shutting the dyno down a 4:00. So there is always the end of next semester when he will be back and I'll give it ago then. I have never seen a water pump break the way this one did, maybe bad casting who knows it was only about 5 months old. But at least I was able to drive it back home this evening with minimal out of pocket cost. Time to get on the internet and find a 7 blade fan and purchase a new radiator.
Kevin
