Pre-86 SB vs Vortec

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Erik the Awful

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...and guess what popped up in my YouTube feed yesterday?

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TheMrFlippers

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Just realized the vortec/tbi setup in my truck has a vortec block, with a TBI water pump... Haven't fired it yet. Here's to hoping the bypass hole on the water pump doesn't leak....
 

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I bought an aftermarket alum pump that had a press in type plug for the bypass hole. Saved me the trouble of tapping n plugging the block, that hole supposedly over cools the front cylinder and it's a racing trick to plug it anyways. I like to run small bypass lines from the rear of the intake that goes above the t-stat so I prefer it plugged anyways.
 
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