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    Water Pumps

    I am planning to run a daytona rad in my charger, this means there is no nipple on the rad for the heater hose, can I just run a g-body water pump on my charger? I just want to make sure I won't have any clearance issues.

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    Re: Water Pumps

    Quote Originally Posted by CDNTurboZ View Post
    I am planning to run a daytona rad in my charger, this means there is no nipple on the rad for the heater hose, can I just run a g-body water pump on my charger? I just want to make sure I won't have any clearance issues.
    I run a later model WP on my omni with the return from the core on the pump housing, and I have no issues at all.

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    Re: Water Pumps

    just build yourself a Tee [1 1/2--5/8---1 1/2] in the lower radiator hose--works beautiful-been using one for years--bob

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    Re: Water Pumps

    What block are you running? The water pumps are different between non common blocks (88 & earlier) and common blocks (89 and later).
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    Quote Originally Posted by ScottD View Post
    What block are you running? The water pumps are different between non common blocks (88 & earlier) and common blocks (89 and later).
    It will be an 86 TI block, with an 86 daytona water pump housing

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    You should probably be ok. If you're doing it just get a new pump, they're cheap. The 88 and earlier pumps spin one direction, the 89 and later pumps spin the other direction. You just want to be sure to use the right pump with the right block.
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    Yeah I'll be getting a new pump for sure,

    thanks guys

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    Re: Water Pumps

    yeah but then you just switch the belt routing depending on which pump you are using

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    Re: Water Pumps

    Quote Originally Posted by Garret View Post
    yeah but then you just switch the belt routing depending on which pump you are using
    True, but if he is swapping out the housings too like he is, then there could be interference with the oil pan IIRC. I know I went with the latter style pump and housing on my non-common block, so it must be the NCB pump housing that hits on the CBs. He is in no danger of this since he is taking a tona' pump/housing and using it on his omni though.

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    Re: Water Pumps

    It didn't hit on my 16v motor, I ran an early water pump on a common block . That is also because I don't like the water pump running off the back of a belt

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    Re: Water Pumps

    Quote Originally Posted by Garret View Post
    It didn't hit on my 16v motor, I ran an early water pump on a common block . That is also because I don't like the water pump running off the back of a belt
    Perhaps it is hit an miss then. There sure were a lot of people on a thread a while back that were slightly grinding things to make one of the WP housings fit.

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    Re: Water Pumps

    Quote Originally Posted by Garret View Post
    It didn't hit on my 16v motor, I ran an early water pump on a common block . That is also because I don't like the water pump running off the back of a belt

    Thats because your special Garret,

    I guess it depends on the year of waterpump housing as some have had to notch them to clear later blocks.
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    Re: Water Pumps

    I wasn't sure if I was clear here, I have an 86 daytona water pump, which I want to put on my 86 shelby charger (which has an 86 block as well), it should bolt on the block for sure (of course) but I was worried about fitment in the engine bay.

    Something I was thinking about, why did they run the nipple on the rad anyway on l-bodies, as opposed to running off of the water pump?

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    Because of the L-body rad and how it's a double pass style rad

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