Coventry Climax engines are famed for use in race cars, but not all of them had such glory. Our FW was designed for a water pump.
[Identifying our Coventry Climax engine]
While we rebuilt the engine earlier, we still needed to rebuild the original water pump for the rigors of high-rpm use as a stock Coventry Climax water pump is …
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I'm curious as to why they didn't switch out the waterpump pulley. Just about every Climax I've seen has the stock firepump steel pulley swapped for an aluminum one. I think I bought one from Mike Brotherwood when I was building the Climax for my Eleven rep, and recently I bought another one for my FWB project from Glyn at Climax-Engines / Peacock Engineering.