Best of luck to you. I also sent the following to your email address.
"Hi, here's my story:
I got my 98 SVT a few months ago with 92k miles on it. My water pump died the day I got the car home. What happened was I took the car for a test run around the block. I went wide open throttle for 1st and 2nd gears. Drove about a half mile around the block then pulled into my driveway. I noticed that the temp gauge was reading above normal. I sat and watched it go up as the car idled, until it passed the "L" in NORMAL. At which point I turned off the motor and knew that my water pump had gone, since I've known for a while that these pumps are flawed.
I then went to the autoparts store (with a different car) and bought the only pump they had. It had another plastic impeller, but I needed the car the next day so I had no choice.
Now I have a water pump that I know will fail again so I plan on replacing it fairly soon with one that has a metal impeller.
I've attached a picture I took of my broken water pump and the new one side by side."
