Doug1964

I have a 1960 with an Edelbrock Intake and Edelbrock carb. I am running a steel fuel line and wanted to mount a gf-90 fuel filter on the intake manifold stud. Problem is the heater hose supply line and fitting is right where one would want to mount the fuel filter. On the original intake the heater hose connection is on the front of the manifold while on the edelbrock, the heater hose connection comes out the top at a 45 toward the valve cover on the passenger front. I was thinking about using the top port of my wieand water pump to use as a heater supply line. Will it hurt anything to use this port? I realize I won't have heat until the radiator warms up but I am not concerned about that. I am concerned whether it will hurt the functionallity of the waterpump if I use the top port for my heater supply. Will the engine be starved for coolant water if I use this port? The other alternative is just not to use a fuel filter, but I really want to have a fuel filter and I liked the set up used on some of the c2 vettes with GF-90 type filter.

rongold

I think that connection at the top of the water pump is an inlet port, not an outlet port. The bypass hose on cars such equipped connects there, and the flow is into the pump.

wmf62

Bill