Will A Vl Water Pump Be Fine On A 26/30?

[unique1]

hey guys i finished the rebuild of my 26/30 setup and put the coolant in ready to start the motor and the bloody water pump (second hand rb26 one from another motor that was fine previously) is leaking from the hole underneath so the seal has gone. I grabbed the spare 26 pump i have and its also leaking so im lookin at a new pump now. Can i just use a rb30 vl water pump? im keeping the revlimit to the 7000rpm mark so its not gonna be revving its head off and im sure a generic vl one is gonna be easier and cheaper to get hold of. I have a spare vl one here as well but the impellar does look a fair different design to the rb26 one.

How many of you guys are running a rb30 water pump on the twin cam motors? and any issues?

anyone know what a new genuine rb26 pump is worth and a rb30 one?

[lachlanw]

there was fully a topic about this last week that even had photos of all 4 diff pumps and what they fit on and how much they all are

did you search at all ?

[bubba]

Brad, I'm running an OEM RB20 water pump on my 30. Bought it brand new and because it was my daily I opted not to go for the N1 waterpump.. now that it's not a daily though.. hopefully it does alright.. new revlimit will be 7500rpm.

[unique1]

thanks Bubba, i ended up buying a new 26 pump from Nissan for $100 bucks, cheap for a genuine nissan part for a change Cars all finished ready for start up tommorow on the new motor

[bubba]

Nice work, enjoy!

[SimonR32]

should have used one off the vl motor

extra 15rwhp for sure

[bubba]

ulleh sik factor?

[unique1]

lol, yer the vl one was an option but considering new 26 ones are only 100 bucks its not worth the risk considering the stuffing around to change it.

tuned the motor last night on the road and its going strong as

[bubba]

Excellent! still stock twins?

Mine is all starting to come together finally! Got my injectors a couple of weeks ago and last week my sump, ATI balancer and some gauges rocked up

[unique1]

nah i got the gt3076r back on it and running 1 bar its great, got abit of boost creep at high rpm though which is annoying, gotta look into it and wind it up to 18psi or so i reckon its making around the 340rwhp at the moment at a guess, feels slow compared to the old motor but has great response (1 bar at 2800rpm)

sounds like yours is just getting better and better, ive been there and done that and learnt with this one to stop spending and only buy the basics or it just ends up out of control

[bubba]

Nowhere near out of control, just decided to do it all properly instead of trying to hold it back because of certain components Had big dramas with the exhaust manifold which set me back a couple of months