Stupid water pump question

rskrause
03-10-2008, 12:24 PM
A stupid question for my 10,000th post on cz28!!! What is being referred to as "long" or "short" wrt both SBC and BBC water pumps?

Thanks.

Rich

jg95z28
03-10-2008, 04:04 PM
The length of the impeller shaft. Most sbc's before 1969 used the short version.

rskrause
03-10-2008, 09:23 PM
Thanks. What about BB?

Rich

mdacton
03-10-2008, 09:42 PM
I thought the corvette got the shorter one......the sides where the 2 bolts are is short its smaller than the other one. And the long one has kind of a snout to it where the pulley is, the short one is really close

dangalla
03-10-2008, 10:05 PM
I thought the corvette got the shorter one......the sides where the 2 bolts are is short its smaller than the other one. And the long one has kind of a snout to it where the pulley is, the short one is really close

thats what i thought too, i ordered vette pump a long time ago cause it was alluminum and i wanted to see if it would fit on my third gen

rskrause
03-10-2008, 10:22 PM
I thought the corvette got the shorter one......the sides where the 2 bolts are is short its smaller than the other one. And the long one has kind of a snout to it where the pulley is, the short one is really close


That makes more sense than the impeller, but I don't know - that's why I am asking???

Rich

mdacton
03-10-2008, 10:28 PM
That makes more sense than the impeller, but I don't know - that's why I am asking???

Rich

Why are you asking? b/c I know the brackets for alt. and the crank pulley and stuff are harder to find but depending on what your doing it may not matter.

rskrause
03-10-2008, 10:50 PM
Why are you asking? b/c I know the brackets for alt. and the crank pulley and stuff are harder to find but depending on what your doing it may not matter.

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mdacton
03-10-2008, 10:57 PM
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oh...well the pulley is different too just so you know, I ran into this before and could never get the right stuff so I just got a different water pump to get it all lined up right.