Sender: <marv@lancaironline.net> (Marvin Kaye)
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Date: Mon, 30 Sep 2002 18:57:18 -0400
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From: "Mike Wills" <willsm@spawar.navy.mil>
Subject: Re: [FlyRotary] water pumps
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John,

  I'm with Ed. The electric water pump may work in a low duty cycle 
application, but not in a high duty cycle application like an aircraft 
engine. Trying to cool a high power, high duty cyle application with an 
electric pump and expecting to gain power in the process sounds an awful 
lot like a perpetual motion machine to me.

  I've read Hot Rod for 30 years and have always enjoyed it. But if I 
applied all of the tricks like this that I've read about over the years, 
I'd be able to build a 1000HP small block Chevy using only bolt on parts 
(sold by Hot Rod advertisers) for less than $2000. :-)

Mike Wills

At 02:47 PM 9/29/2002 -0400, you wrote:
>There is an article in hot rod mag this month that says an electric water
>pump has made gains of 40 hp, it states that it takes less power to run an
>alternator than a pump and units can be fabricated from universal units from
>hot rod supply houses.  JohnD