Aluminum Water Pump Housing

[greatwn73]

    I bought an aluminum housing last week for the 400  I'm putting in my 73 charger over the next few weeks and when I got home and matched it to the old one the lower outlet comes out the opposite side. I assume that since both water nipple holes are the same size (larger) that this housing is for the up to 1970 engines. Question is will this still work and will the outlet interfere with the power steering. Has anyone used this in a newer car and what size rad should be used (I was hoping to use the 26" rad and shroud out of the 76 C body the engine came out of) but that would mean relocating the lower rad hose hole in the tank and the finding hoses to fit.
any suggestions??

[71440charger]

if i think whatyou are talking about is the outlet that goes to the bottom of your raidator then you are going to need to get one that goes to the side of the radiator outlet beacuse the hose will hit the fan

[RD]

get a radiator whose inlet is on the driver's side.

[Nacho-RT74]

an earlier B body one or aftermarket.

Unless you find the right aluminium housing to 400 ( if is available )... all 400s came with outlet to passenger side.

[greatwn73]

thanks nacho and i've sold the aluminum housing to a friend with a 70 superbee

[Crazy440]

I had this problem with my 440.  I took it to a  rad shop and they switched the outlet to, the other side.  Didn't cost all that much.

Crazy

[daytonalo]

WILL A 76 C BODY 318 RAD WORK ON A 69 B -BODY BIG BLOCK ? ARE THE INLET AND OUTLET IN THE PROPER LOCATION , ARE THE TANKS CLOSE IN APPERENCE . THE REASON I'M ASKING , I CAN GET ONE FOR FREE

[TylerCharger69]

I'm sure you could modify it to work....however....you may experience an overheating problem if you don't use the B/RB radiator.  I would just have the bottom fitting moved to the opposite side....but also....you may have to have the top fitting moved too, as the radiator fittings should be on opposite sides...in other words...if your top hose is on the passenger side, and the bottom hose is on the passenger side...all that will mainly occur is water circulating mostly on one side of the radiator, and not circulating through it completely.   I hope this made sense...lol...other wise  if both radiator fittings are on the same side....it WILL create an overheating problem.  A radiator shop shouldn't charge to terribly much to do this.