Custom Water Pump Housing Design for Big Block Chevy

big time yeah yeah really this one here it's kind of cool we we wanted a way to cool off our big block chevy for a special customer uh that was running some turbocharged engines like plus a thousand foot-pounds of torque kind of ridiculous amounts and they couldn't cool it off and there wasn't a water pump out there that would do it so we actually developed this housing to go on the front of their big block engine and it holds this uh cartridge water pump which will push like three times the water through the engine is that cartridge like from something else and you made the housing to fit that exactly this is actually from a caterpillar engine so we made that caterpillar pump fit onto our big block chevy that's kind of stuff i think is really cool yeah this is like hot rodding in a nutshell right here yep that's just an off-the-shelf part and we have this housing this housing was actually used with a 3d sand printed process so we take the model we send it to a vendor and they'll print the mold and and sand and then they pour the metal into the sand mold and take it out so it's a lot slower process and more expensive this one this particular part here cost like five thousand dollars i think we had like nine of those made and that was just to prove the part out and uh once we got it proved out then we