[s-cars] Fuel pump

[mtgadbois at aol.com]

Well Bear,

FWIW, I have a 95.5 S6 with RS2 turbo, MRC software, 3bar sensor, RS2 like injectors 
and have been using the stock fuel pump for at least 80,000 miles.  I've had no 
fuel starvation problems but I rarely go past 6K any more.

Mark near Chicago

The bear asked:

Date: Thu, 6 Feb 2014 00:47:12 -0800
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Looking at the list of things that might fail and strand me, about the only 
thing left that I haven't replaced is the fuel pump.  I have a GT2871 turbo 
(roughly similar to RS2 output) but haven't upgraded ECU or fuel injectors yet 
because I still have the stock fuel pump.  This would be a good time to improve 
reliability and performance at the same time.  Looks like the popular choices 
are:

Walbro 255 lph
Bosch 040
Bosch 044

I gather Walbro is the cheapest and can drop in to the stock fuel basket with a 
neoprene sleeve to make it fit properly.  This has the advantage of not 
requiring me to remove the fuel basket.  However, I found some discussion of 
problems with the Walbro a few years ago.  I don't want to have to replace the 
pump again and can't tell whether the Walbro pumps still have quality issues.

The. Bosch 040 and 044 require use of the 60mm fuel pump basket.  However, 034 
sells a kit that looks like it uses a bracket instead.  I'm not sure how the 
bracket allows you to avoid using the 60mm basket.

What fuel pumps are you guys with upgraded turbos using?  No, I'm not looking 
for a Happersized setup.

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