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Originally Posted by brucepick
In my case, I'm pretty sure the Civic water pump is gear driven of an engine shaft. Not related to the alt drive belt at all. I do like having a/c and power steering. True that I could drive the car without either.
Hmmm... removing the belts would be a long lasting decision for me - I'm not handy at installing + tightening them. I'd probably cut 'em off and that would be the end of them.
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The civic water pump is driven off the engine timing belt. There are water pump delete kits you can buy that just have an idler pulley there to run the same timing belt, but then you have to plumb in your electric water pump somewhere. I know some honda racing people do this, but that's mostly with b16 and k series engines. The d series economy ones might not even have these kits, but you could just as easily cut off all the blades on the water pump so you make an idler pulley; however, it might not be balanced then.
I wonder what the gains would be. Kinda seems like a PITA, but if its 5-10% MPG gain, then......
