Clearance issue with Meziere water pump?
09-29-2010, 08:49 AM
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Clearance issue with Meziere water pump? Putting the car back together, got the water pump bolted up, went to go put in the radiator & fans, and saw the the pass side fan is hitting the water pump. I know tons of guys run the Meziere pumps on camaros, did you guys have to modify anything to make it fit?
I ended up removing the fans from their mount, and zip tying them to the radiator using spacers on each bolt hole. I know it will work this way, but is there anything else I could do?
I ended up removing the fans from their mount, and zip tying them to the radiator using spacers on each bolt hole. I know it will work this way, but is there anything else I could do?
09-29-2010, 08:51 AM
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So you took the fans out of the shroud? If so, not a real smart thing to do. The shroud moves far more air than having just the fans out in the open. You have an electric W/P you must clearance part of the shroud to make it fit. It's extremely easy and takes mere minutes to do.
09-29-2010, 08:55 AM
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Putting the car back together, got the water pump bolted up, went to go put in the radiator & fans, and saw the the pass side fan is hitting the water pump. I know tons of guys run the Meziere pumps on camaros, did you guys have to modify anything to make it fit?
I ended up removing the fans from their mount, and zip tying them to the radiator using spacers on each bolt hole. I know it will work this way, but is there anything else I could do?
I ended up removing the fans from their mount, and zip tying them to the radiator using spacers on each bolt hole. I know it will work this way, but is there anything else I could do?
09-29-2010, 08:58 AM
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I was worried about still having enough clearance with cutting the shroud.. I've got the HD Meziere, which is about a 1/2 inch longer then the standard. I'll mess around with it and see if it will clear though.
So everyone has to cut their shroud to get the Mezeire to fit?
So everyone has to cut their shroud to get the Mezeire to fit?
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09-29-2010, 09:13 AM
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I was worried about still having enough clearance with cutting the shroud.. I've got the HD Meziere, which is about a 1/2 inch longer then the standard. I'll mess around with it and see if it will clear though.
So everyone has to cut their shroud to get the Mezeire to fit?
So everyone has to cut their shroud to get the Mezeire to fit?
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09-30-2010, 06:39 AM
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Not to hijack but since we have some HD users in here including myself, were any of you able to pull off the ls intake conversion using the HD pump? I dont think you will be able to lean back radiator any when using the HD based on my car.
09-30-2010, 04:34 PM
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yep i got my ls1 fast toys 90mm lid and 85mm z06 mass air to fit with my meizere HD pump...... Let me tell you though i dont recommend it. Huge pain in the *** and i have a VFN 3" ss hood that has about the same clearance as a chopped up stock hood. Lid still touches the hood barely, the fan is about a 1/8 or a 1/16 away from the hd pump.. i mean this stuff just barely fits.. or just barely doesnt, depending how you look at it. I had to make my own tiny little lower air box and screw the lid to it and only use the lower box as a rad support only. if i had to do it all over again i would have bought a different hood and used the stock unmodded box and lid setup. An slp lid or stock lid proally would have been much easier too
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yep i got my ls1 fast toys 90mm lid and 85mm z06 mass air to fit with my meizere HD pump...... Let me tell you though i dont recommend it. Huge pain in the *** and i have a VFN 3" ss hood that has about the same clearance as a chopped up stock hood. Lid still touches the hood barely, the fan is about a 1/8 or a 1/16 away from the hd pump.. i mean this stuff just barely fits.. or just barely doesnt, depending how you look at it. I had to make my own tiny little lower air box and screw the lid to it and only use the lower box as a rad support only. if i had to do it all over again i would have bought a different hood and used the stock unmodded box and lid setup. An slp lid or stock lid proally would have been much easier too
Maybe I am missing something. Do you have an ac condensor still in front of the radiator? I am running a sunoco wide by vfn and I am thinking I will have clearance for the actual lid. My buddy gave me his old SLP (has cracks), that I might mock up things with. I am curious to see pics of closer in where your pump is.
09-30-2010, 10:05 PM
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Thanks! Yes i do still have my ac condenser in front of the radiator. I had to cut the fan shroud, the top of the radiator shroud, the aluminum radiator's metal top piece, the tabs on the radiator that hold the ac condenser, had to bang down the condenser and flatten the top row of fins to the first row of tubes, and cut the top metal support on the car in between the bumper and the condenser, i had to hack the bottom ls1 filter housing into just a rad support, had to trim the tall lips off of the lid, and had to try and stay sane will doing a project that i thought was going to be a simple short piece of cake,-which ended up being a long nitemare and pretty much feels like a hack job but it works great and i know i will beat my best ET so far with this 
let me know if you want more pics
let me know if you want more pics 