[s-cars] Fuel pump

[John Cunningham]

Ted -

The bosch danger is to be triple sure you arent getting a Chinese fake.  Buying from a 100% reputable source is a must.  (Aka no ebay bargains).  

I was a walbro-nightmare skeptic since some platforms seemed to have good luck with them, but then i got stranded on the Garden State at rush hour by mine after only a year or so.  So now i am a walbro skeptic with a nightmare story.  

Now i run a Deatschwerks.  Like the walbro or any of the new "universals" it needs to be sleeved (they are all the same dimensions). I picked up another old used audi pump (V6 from A6 or 90? I forget) for peanuts and stripped the plastic sleeve off as thats a much sturdier mounting method than the neoprene.  Ive got a couple years on it now, mostly RS2 level, and its running great.  (Car is full RS2 w billet wheel, green giant injectors, ~1.8-1.9 bar etc.) So far i would definitely recommend it and its lasted well longer than the Walbro POS. 

Recently some guys had been using Aeromotive, which is very much like the Deatschwerks, but there seems to be evidence of those failing walbro-style also.  Just some talk on QW about that last week. 

HTH. 



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> On Feb 6, 2014, at 20:40, mtgadbois at aol.com wrote:
> 
> 
> 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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