if he starts up another thread about the housing,
i wonder if will he get the answer he wants?

Buy the Mopar one

I bought the Milodon aluminum pump. It sat in the house for a year or two before I installed it. The pump leaked. It had been so long since I bought it I didn't try to have it warrantied.

I've never heard of any bad water pumps. Some work better than others and some are lot more expensive than others. Go to Summit and look at all of the water pumps for BB Mopar engines. I think there are 9 ranging from $35 to $250. If it was me I'd buy two of the $35 pumps and call it good. If the first one didn't work I'd swap in the second one. If the first one worked then I'd drive it until it leaked and then swap in the the other one.

This summer I took out the old edelbrock "high flow" pump and put in a aluminum GMB that I got for $20 from Amazon to see if it cooled the same or any worse or better than the expensive eddy pump. No change and used a superformance gasket with no silicone and no leaks or anything....Cools just as good as the edelbrock. 'Net research shows that the milodon pump is repackaged GMB. There's a standard flow and a high flow. The high flow has the anti cavitation plate. Standard ranges from $20-30. High flow ranges from 40-50. Rich Ehrenberg sells something similar on ebay too for 40 + shipping.

I bought the expensive Edelbrock pump a few years ago because I figured the expensive stuff must be the good stuff. It seized up after very few miles. I bought the el cheapo replacement aluminum water pump (probably a repacked GMB) and it worked just fine.