Those adapter/mounting brackets look great Jay! Would you be selling a complete setup including the 55 GPM CVR pump and adapters, on just the adapters alone? Any idea on pricing yet? As for the Meziere remote setup, one of the racers in our stickshift group has a mid 9 SB MoPar powered 69 Dart with a complete Meziere cooling system. It has an aluminum radiator with remote water pump attatched directly to the side tank. It is a beautiful piece of engineering, it looks and works great. Not sure on the price however.
As for electric water pumps in general, both my FE Fairmont and SBF 85 Mustang currently use Moroso electric water pump drives with cogged belts, and "normal" water pumps. (Edelbrock on the 427, stock aluminum 5.0 Mustang unit on the Mustang.) I have ran the stock V belt set up on the Fairmont, along with an old lightweight green Flexalite fiberglass fan. There was just a stock single groove crank pulley, a large Moroso alternator pulley, and a stock single groove water pump pulley. Performance wise, the car didn`t go any quicker with the electric setup, the main reason I used the electric pump drive was so I can let the water pump run after a pass with the engine shut off, makes cool down between runs easier. I certainly wouldn`t run one on a street car though, as the motor is just a Ford heater fan motor. DalePs 67 Mustang still has a stock style fan belt driven alt and water pump, and it runs 9.7s. Of course there can be considerable improvments by reducing parasitic belt driven drag. A buddy of mine had a bone stock 87 Mustang GT 5.0 5 speed, with slicks. Leaving at 5000 RPM, the car was running 14.2s at 96 MPH, Just for fun, he cooled the car down, pushing it up to the front of staging lanes, and totally removed the serpentine belt. The crankshaft was spinning nothing. The car picked up to a 13.9 at 99 MPH with no other changes. Later I tried the same trick on my daily driver 302 5 speed street Fairmont. I removed both V belts in the staging lanes, and reinstalled them on the return road . My car also picked up 3 full tenths, although I imagine that all the stock pulleys were of a high speed variety, since in stock form, the Fairmont was equipped with 2.47 gears in the diff. I imagine that was why the crankpulley was so large, to spin the alternator and other accesseries at sufficent speed.