High-flow water pump: A preferred cooling-system mod, or?

Two- or three-row radiators, upgrade thermostats, etc....seem to be no-question desirable cooling-system upgrades, but....I have read the posts re adding a flow restrictor to effect better cooling through longer retention in the radiator... Thus, IS a high-flow pump such as Hesco a definite, unequivocal plus??

i dont think so, i am running a new oe water pump on a stroker and it cools just fine. I run a 195 thermostat(the nice one made out of stainless) and a 3 row rad. Motor stays pinned on 195 most of the time unless i am towing something on a 100+ degree day.

I dont believe that you get any gain out of running your motor at 180 or lower. It just burns more fuel

I'm not too sure if I'd get a Hesco or just a good stock replacement, when the stock pump on Dad's '90 went belly up and needed replacement he just got a new one and suddenly all of the overheating problems he had went away. This was after replacing everything but the pump and heater core too?!

what yr?

You could get at least some of the benefits of the Hesco unit by buying the Flowcooler disk from Summit for 5.95 (plus around $10 for "handling") that you rivet on the impeller.

http://store.summitracing.com/egnsearch.asp?N=700+115+-120574&D=-120574

Or you could make one yourself.