Water pump....questions

[rocco_crossing@hotmail.com (Rhett Farnum)]

If your alt was still spinning wouldn't that still cause friction and pull 
from your HP anyways? I mean if you turn the alternator off all you are 
doing is opening the external circuit, you wouldn't really be lessening the 
friction from the alt because it would still be turning and makeing energy, 
it just wouldn't be pushing it into the entire electrical system.

Disclaimer: this is an amature electrical student talking, I am not really 
knowledgable on the pulley end of things but electrical is a diff. story so 
this is how *I* see it.



Peace Out,
Rhett
Rocco_crossing
'83 Rocco (autocross ready, 20 days till season opener)
'92 Olds Cutlass Ciera (DD)





>From: frank <fish26133@yahoo.com>
>To: ATS - Patrick Bureau <txrocco@sbcglobal.net>
>CC: Scirocco Mailing List <scirocco-l@scirocco.org>
>Subject: Re: Water pump....questions
>Date: Fri, 28 Feb 2003 10:34:50 -0800 (PST)
>
>Patrick, On a street driven car you would probley want
>to use a underdrive pulley on the crank & mabey a
>larger one on the water & powersteering pumps, A good
>machine shop could turn these down out of
>aluminum.(Ron should know more about that)
>You could also install a switch that will cutout the
>alternator while racing, just besure to switch it back
>on for normal driving
>Good Luck,FJ
>--- ATS - Patrick Bureau <txrocco@sbcglobal.net>
>wrote:
> > Working on my 2L project and thinking...could it be
> > possible to not install
> > the pulley driven Water pump and install a type of
> > electrical water pump
> > instead and gain some HP?
> > I have been obviously reading too many racing
> > catalogues, I am getting
> > ideas, but no real clue what type would electrical
> > driven (yeah I can hear
> > the gremlins already getting ready to attack this
> > thing) water pump ?
> >
> > any one have any ideas on this?
> >
> > ATS - Patrick Bureau - txrocco@sbcglobal.net
> >
> >
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