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California98Civic · 06-08-2016, 07:00 PM

I took my daily driver, "black & green," off the road today for a week of service and mods, and I have a question for the forum. Anyone ever fabricated their own idler plate for a water pump?

I am considering cutting the impellers off my stock water pump, which works fine. Here is a picture of an OEM style d-series water pump, showing its impellers:

I have checked honda-tech.com and d-series.org ... and I know about Meziere electric pumps (they are not available for d-series honda engines).

Here is a water pump I am considering... I have not checked how its specs compare with the stock water volume and flow rate yet:

12V DC 4A EV Hot Water-Coolant Pump 200F-100C EV Hot Water-Coolant Pump 9 Gallon-min 35 Liters-min

[EDIT:] Or this Craig Davies pump:
http://daviescraig.com.au/product/ew...ric-water-pump

Thoughts?

06-08-2016, 07:00 PM	#1 (permalink)
California98Civic Cyborg ECU Join Date: Mar 2011 Location: Coastal Southern California Posts: 6,299 Black and Green - '98 Honda Civic DX Coupe Team Honda 90 day: 66.42 mpg (US) Black and Red - '00 Nashbar Custom built eBike 90 day: 3671.43 mpg (US) Thanks: 2,373 Thanked 2,172 Times in 1,469 Posts	DIY d-series Civic water pump idler plate I took my daily driver, "black & green," off the road today for a week of service and mods, and I have a question for the forum. Anyone ever fabricated their own idler plate for a water pump? I am considering cutting the impellers off my stock water pump, which works fine. Here is a picture of an OEM style d-series water pump, showing its impellers: I have checked honda-tech.com and d-series.org ... and I know about Meziere electric pumps (they are not available for d-series honda engines). Here is a water pump I am considering... I have not checked how its specs compare with the stock water volume and flow rate yet: 12V DC 4A EV Hot Water-Coolant Pump 200F-100C EV Hot Water-Coolant Pump 9 Gallon-min 35 Liters-min [EDIT:] Or this Craig Davies pump: http://daviescraig.com.au/product/ew...ric-water-pump Thoughts? Attached Thumbnails __________________ See my car's mod & maintenance thread and my electric bicycle's thread for ongoing projects. I will rebuild Black and Green over decades as parts die, until it becomes a different car of roughly the same shape and color. My minimum fuel economy goal is 55 mpg while averaging posted speed limits. I generally top 60 mpg. See also my Honda manual transmission specs thread. Last edited by California98Civic; 06-08-2016 at 07:11 PM..