Re: Your Favorite street/strip QUIET fuel pump?
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Walbro 255 should support 500hp easy, if you want more power, run 2.
They're about 99$ and come factory on many modern cars.
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Re: Your Favorite street/strip QUIET fuel pump?
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Walbro 255 should support 500hp easy, if you want more power, run 2.
They're about 99$ and come factory on many modern cars.
Unless you are running a fuelie setup, stay away from that pump.
I did a lot of research on that pump a while back and remember vividly walbro saying they were only meant for the higher fuel pressures of EFI and could not gurantee they would work with a carb. I also saw quite a few threads on various internet sites about guys having bad luck with them in carbed setups...can't remember the exact reason why, but they don't like the low pressure.
Otherwise, I would have bought a bunch of them as they are supposed to be really good pumps
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Re: Your Favorite street/strip QUIET fuel pump?
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Mallory 140 is quiet.. But it's really more about how and where you mount the pump.. Use rubber to insulate the vibration.. Chris..
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Re: Your Favorite street/strip QUIET fuel pump?
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I already have a 16 gallon aluminum fuel cell, but I suppose with a little ingenuity maybe I could stuff a pump in it?
I run a A1000 (not in tank) and had 2 quit on me. Thier customer service took care of me. But there is no way I would but that pump in a tank. Outside the tank it is 2x as loud as a comp140 mallery.
I think you will be happier when a pump checks out (they all do) if it is easy to change.
Thanks for the inputs. I like the input on the Mallory 140,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,
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Re: Your Favorite street/strip QUIET fuel pump?
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$50 ebay Holley black copy cat pump....Can hardly hear it with the car off, let alone with it running
Same pump I have been running for about 5 years. I had to put a kit in it after a couple years it starting leaking a little so I put a Holley kit in it. should support 600 H.P. pretty easy.
you probably don't remember, but I started a thread on here about those pumps and you shared the same experience as above. For 99 bucks shipped I got two pumps, and I figured i'd keep the spare with me in the trunk so if one crapped out I can just swap in the other to get home.
So far the first one has worked flawlessly, has maintained steady pressure for what im doing, and its unbelievably quiet for a pump that I have mounted to bare metal at the back of the car
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Re: Your Favorite street/strip QUIET fuel pump?
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10/24/12 05:22 PM
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FWIW Dwayne went 11.18 @ 123 weighing 3550lbs. this was with a stock fuel system connected to a carter HV mechanical pump
personally i think people really go overboard with fuel systems
I agree... I run a Carter P4600HP in my 3,620lb race weight car and it traps 127mph, which is right at 600hp...I use a stock tank, sending unit with 3/8" pick up and 3/8" line to the carb...never have had any kind of fuel pressure issues...it's quiet and rated at 100gpm
I have to agree with these guys. I ran 10.76 @ almost 125 with just the Holley red pump which uses no external reg. I still use my stock gas tank with a 3/8 sending unit and 3/8 fuel lne. I have upgraded to the Firecore 140 pump with an external reg but have not got back to the track to try it yet but it runs good on the street. Its a bit less noisy then the Holley red pump but I dont care. I run a full 3" exh and can hear it a little sometimes when I am driving but I grew up in the 60's and 70's and back then if you could not hear the fuel pump it was not running. I am just joking as we used to say.........how do you know if your fuel pump is working if you cant hear it ? All I know is I play my radio when driving and I can hear it fine but I never seemed to mind a little fuel pump noise as I just got so used to it.
Oh and Rick (SunroofGTX) gave me great service getting my fuel pump and wires. Ron
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Re: Your Favorite street/strip QUIET fuel pump?
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10/25/12 09:33 AM
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$50 ebay Holley black copy cat pump....Can hardly hear it with the car off, let alone with it running
Same pump I have been running for about 5 years. I had to put a kit in it after a couple years it starting leaking a little so I put a Holley kit in it. should support 600 H.P. pretty easy.
you probably don't remember, but I started a thread on here about those pumps and you shared the same experience as above. For 99 bucks shipped I got two pumps, and I figured i'd keep the spare with me in the trunk so if one crapped out I can just swap in the other to get home.
So far the first one has worked flawlessly, has maintained steady pressure for what im doing, and its unbelievably quiet for a pump that I have mounted to bare metal at the back of the car
Is this the pump you guys are talking about? If not, anyone have a link to one?
http://www.ebay.com/itm/Universal-140GPH...48c&vxp=mtr
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Re: Your Favorite street/strip QUIET fuel pump?
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$50 ebay Holley black copy cat pump....Can hardly hear it with the car off, let alone with it running
Same pump I have been running for about 5 years. I had to put a kit in it after a couple years it starting leaking a little so I put a Holley kit in it. should support 600 H.P. pretty easy.
you probably don't remember, but I started a thread on here about those pumps and you shared the same experience as above. For 99 bucks shipped I got two pumps, and I figured i'd keep the spare with me in the trunk so if one crapped out I can just swap in the other to get home.
So far the first one has worked flawlessly, has maintained steady pressure for what im doing, and its unbelievably quiet for a pump that I have mounted to bare metal at the back of the car
Is this the pump you guys are talking about? If not, anyone have a link to one?
http://www.ebay.com/itm/Universal-140GPH...48c&vxp=mtr
Looks exactly like the one I used. Be careful though and make sure that the one you get says it is a 140gph, because they sell the lower gph ones and they look exactly the same. When I found mine I just typed in electric fuel pump, and it was the second one, but I can't find the seller who I bought mine from. I know they are probably all the same, but try searching 140gph fuel pump to see what you get, price, shipping,etc.
Whatever you do, don't buy the regulators- a holley 12-803 is cheap enough, and the ones on ebay are junk-mine cracked at one of the outlet fitting when tightening the fitting (was not even close to being tight yet either) and poured fuel everywhere.
The way I looked at it, for 100 bucks you get two, one breaks, swap the other in
Just to add also, I took both pumps apart when I got them just to check out the internals and make sure they were clean and in proper working order, reassembled and then tested them. As much as they are a good deal, I can't trust just bolting on a fifty dollar part without checking it
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