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Meziere EWP, 6th season on car and still going strong!

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Old 05-22-2011, 04:26 PM
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Bought mine in 2007. It's been back to Meziere for warranty work twice since then for leaking. They said that probably because my car sits so long during the winter without starting th engine that the internal gaskets dried out causing the leaks.
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Originally Posted by *02WS6TURK*
$600 for 4-5rwh....no thanks.
That's right, hate the game! Lol.....


Doug, thats great! Makes me eel a little better about mine if it ever gets running!!!

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600 for 4-5 rwhp, thats not the only thing bro. You are missing the option you get at the track to cool between runs much faster. Turn off engine, leave key fwd to circulate coolant and pop hood for even better and faster cooling. While others are waiting to cool you are making passes. Better gas mileage, quicker reving due to less load. But to each there own.
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Originally Posted by allngn_c5
600 for 4-5 rwhp, thats not the only thing bro. You are missing the option you get at the track to cool between runs much faster. Turn off engine, leave key fwd to circulate coolant and pop hood for even better and faster cooling. While others are waiting to cool you are making passes. Better gas mileage, quicker reving due to less load. But to each there own.
This.

I had a car on my lt1, and it was worth every penny (albeit, only $170 bucks)
The ability to cool down quicker/cooler between rounds I well worth it. Just thr extra cool down was worth .1 and 1mph on my car.
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I don't track mine, so the money would be better spent in other area's. As for those of you that track a lot, I can see why you would want to run one....as would I if I took her to the track. I ran a EWP on my LT1 Z28 simply because it only ran me a couple hundred bucks and it free'd up HP. Had good luck with it the two years I ran it.
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for the track I have my wife who I make get a cooler of ice bags and throw those on top of the motor with the cooling fans still running between classes running.. can the EWP compete with that lol?
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Originally Posted by djfury05
for the track I have my wife who I make get a cooler of ice bags and throw those on top of the motor with the cooling fans still running between classes running.. can the EWP compete with that lol?
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Originally Posted by djfury05
for the track I have my wife who I make get a cooler of ice bags and throw those on top of the motor with the cooling fans still running between classes running.. can the EWP compete with that lol?
IDK but imagine how well you'd be cooling the entire engine if you also had coolant circulating through that radiator...not to mention how cool the Meziere pump looks in there.

FWIW, maybe an EWP isn't the best way to spend your cash but I don't regret getting one for a minute.
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Yea, I'm not opposed to getting one. I actually really like the way they look and how they sometimes free up parastic loses in the drive system. But spending $5-600 and knowing that there is a chance, no matter how big or small it be, that it could fail within the first couple thousand miles is not really comforting when that same money could have been spent on a Griffin radiator etc for the same results and not be chancing it.
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Is there a radiator that is lighter than stock for these cars?
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Originally Posted by Mike Morris
Is there a radiator that is lighter than stock for these cars?
The stock radiator is already very light (5lbs?), so if there is a lighter one, there's not much to be saved.
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Cha-Lee on LS1GTO has been running his years on his H/C Maggie goat. This is his before & after dyno. Makes me really want to get one!!

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