i have taken the mister gasket electric water pump apart and found one of the housing magnets broken loose, that was the knocking noise i heard. i epxoyed it back into place and it is spinning free again with no noise. i am going to keep my spear motor on the car for now and leave this one for the spear. this might be the reason the engine blew the top hose and hurt #1cyl , if the speed of the motor was slower then the coolant wasn`t flowing fast enough to keep her cool, i will have to wait and see.

What about sharing a drum with a fellow racer?

i have tried to do that but it seems that i drum will last for the 9 weekend we race if you go on saturday and sunday,i use 5gal in two day if i run the gambler and the pro class.we don't get much racing and the weather is the biggest hurdle here. so you try and run as many passes as you can on those weekends (test/ grudge or brackets)