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Electric fuel pump

Post by chrisj410 » Tue Feb 21, 2012 3:12 pm

Need a leccy fuel pump any reccomendations and it's for my 410 :)
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Re: Electric fuel pump

Post by twiss » Tue Feb 21, 2012 3:52 pm

Hi Chris,

You want a low pressure facet fuel pump, they aren't very expensive... usuall around £30-40

This is pretty much the one that I am using


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Re: Electric fuel pump

Post by ianedwards » Tue Feb 21, 2012 4:44 pm

See the thread a bit further down, loads of info from the guys in that. I asked the same thing.

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Re: Electric fuel pump

Post by chrisj410 » Tue Feb 21, 2012 4:49 pm

that was for a samurai tho wasnt it?

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Re: Electric fuel pump

Post by twiss » Tue Feb 21, 2012 4:56 pm

All carb engines will run off a low pressure pump pretty much!
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Re: Electric fuel pump

Post by chrisj410 » Tue Feb 21, 2012 5:02 pm

ahhh fair enough,
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Re: Electric fuel pump

Post by ianedwards » Tue Feb 21, 2012 5:05 pm

he he
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Re: Electric fuel pump

Post by justaddmud » Tue Feb 21, 2012 6:51 pm

as a warning, on the solid state pumps like the one above, they are designed for pushing fuel as apposed to sucking so mount it close to the tank not in the engine bay.

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Re: Electric fuel pump

Post by ianedwards » Tue Feb 21, 2012 7:17 pm

hmmm interesting, :idea:

mine was in the engine bay, :er:

do you think it would be a good idea to relocate my new one then. to sort of around the tank area. :hack:

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Re: Electric fuel pump

Post by justaddmud » Tue Feb 21, 2012 7:32 pm

might as well, plenty of room under there with the tank

only said it as a good friend of the family, who happens to run a parts shop and has built (and won in) several rally cars, he advised me that the pumps like that are no good at sucking fuel over a great distance, might be on the pickup that it was close enough not to matter where as on the normal SJ's the tank is as far away from the engine as can be

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