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I am not a fan of the A1000. A friend of mine has a twin turbo LSx 66 Nova that made 1000rwhp(black primered one featured in Car Craft) and he used a A1000 the first time. He drove the car on the Power Tour and had to stop numerous times because the pump kept over heating. In all fairness he was not running a controller but he replaced the A1000 with a Weldon pump with no other changes and it has been trouble free for 40k miles with numerous Power Tour Long Hauls and is much less noisey. The Areomotive set up is pretty pricey and you could get a custom stainless tank with a pair of Walbros in tank pumps cheaper and be more dependable. There are low 9 second full wieght cars running two Walbro 255's and they only cost $110 a piece and are extremely dependable and no controller required. Or if you want a cell just buy the cell and use two external Walbro 255's and you will save yourself $300 or $400 with no loss in performance or you could have the cell modded for in-tank pumps and go that route. I think it likely comes down to how much you drive the car. If you never go on long trips then overheating pumps of any sort is not a big concern but if you like to drive a lot its something to keep in mind.



Good info and points! I had several ideas, but settled on this one.
This is one of the few times I have heard of this. But I could see it happening 100 miles into a trip with 6 gallons circulating around.

What size was his cell?
I ordered the 20 gallon aeromotive aluminum stealth cell with internal a-1000.

This is going into a dakota mounted in the bed.

I will be driving it around a lot locally, but will also take it on long trips occasionally.

As far as a controller goes...I definitely will not be using 3/4 of the pump's capability. This will be a 408 with occasional nitrous use. So what if I were to use some type of rheostat mounted under the hood and slow it down to I dunno...say 3/4 all the time?

I figure if I could slow it down a certain amount all the time with a simple tweak of a knob, as long as I maintain the desired fuel pressure at WOT, I'm good. Right? I think the controller form aeromotive is like 300 bucks...ouch!

I would have bought something smaller, but I wanted room to grow.
I figured I'd just get it over with.



A 20 gallon aluminum cell with internal A1000 shouldn't have cavitation or heating problems at all. The 20 gallon cell will act like a big radiator. In tank cuts way down on noise also. I'd just run it w/o controller.

The controllers don't simply cut voltage; they interrupt power briefly, on and off. Simply cutting the voltage can cause the pump motor to run hot.