Cheap Fuel system to support 550-600hp

[98 Saleen Cobra]

yes I'm sure you can you just need the right fitting to go the stock line..

 

[Prostyle]

cheapest route would be a 044 and the pickup tube correct? since i already have a wally 255 intank would a pickup tube and that be good for 600 hp? or would i need to upgrade to a 044 intank or a a1000 intank

 

[Cookieman00x]

ON m y last setup, I did a 255 intank, and an aeromorive 255 inline with 60's and I was told at 538 rwhp that I had room to grow with it.

 

[Tunedprt91]

yup all those links and stuff should work just fine.. BTW I had the bosch 255 inline and that sucker was loud.. so just to let you know that inline pump is loud.

How loud was it? Was it so loud that it was annoying?

Also im not sure but does using the pickup tube get rid of the intank pump? Whats the advantage of a pickup tube?

 

[98 Saleen Cobra]

It would get loud only sometimes for some reason.. Sometimes it would be quite and sometimes loud.. I didn't understand why it did that.. But yes it would get annoying.. my A1000 is quieter, but it is also mounted on the rear bumper not on the same side of the tank as the inline pump was.

 

[Tabres]

Your stock rails should be fine, but why not upgrade?? I mean Aeromotive and a few other companys make them for pretty cheap yea know.. But you should be fine with the stock ones.

Stock rails have been known to support 700rwhp. May just be me, but I personally wouldn't spend the money. Rails, fittings, regulator... You're looking at spending like $500 unecessarily.

 

[Prostyle]

so hows this pickup tube and everything work. Would i run a pickup tube and then just a inline pump? or pickup tube with a intank pump? or would a wally 255 intank with a 044inline work? haha im not postive how everything works.

 

[98 Saleen Cobra]

A pickup tube will allow you to delete the intank pump so then you can run external pump(s). If you do a pick up tube you can run dual walbros parallel with each other instead of inline.

 

[Prostyle]

so a pickup tube with a 044 would work perfect then? and later on i could even add another 044?

 

[Tunedprt91]

It would get loud only sometimes for some reason.. Sometimes it would be quite and sometimes loud.. I didn't understand why it did that.. But yes it would get annoying.. my A1000 is quieter, but it is also mounted on the rear bumper not on the same side of the tank as the inline pump was.

Why the switch to the a1000? Have any pics of where its mounted?

 

[Tunedprt91]

so a pickup tube with a 044 would work perfect then? and later on i could even add another 044?

Ill post my reults in a few weeks after I run the inline 044 that way you can see if it works.

yea you can run dual pumps later.

 

[Prostyle]

Alright cool. I was just thinking of running a 044 inline since I got a wally255 intank already.if I went with the pickup tube and 044 would I do inline or a external?

 

[98 Saleen Cobra]

Why the switch to the a1000? Have any pics of where its mounted?

I switched because it's a good reliable pump.. I don't have any pictures because I don't have my car here.. I'll get pics next month when I go home though :beer:

 

[96S/Cobra]

A pickup tube will allow you to delete the intank pump so then you can run external pump(s). If you do a pick up tube you can run dual walbros parallel with each other instead of inline.

This is basically what I have on my car. I run an MMR pickup with a -10 feed line and a -6 return line.

Here are a few pics of what I did to my car.

I run a 100 micron pre filter, dual Walbro 255 pumps, then a 10 micron post filter. Here's a quick pic of everything before I installed it.

I needed a place to mount everything, so I took a piece of cardboard and kept tracing it/cutting it down until it eventually fit perfectly between the rear bumper and fuel tank. I then traced the cardboard template onto a piece of sheet aluminum, cut it out, painted it, and this is what I ended up with.

This is what the aluminum mounting bracket looks like once installed under the car.

And this is what everything looks like once the pumps and filters were installed. It may not be show quality, but it's practical and works perfectly for my application.

 

[98 Saleen Cobra]

^^^ and there ya have it.. good looking setup :beer:

 

[Tunedprt91]

I switched because it's a good reliable pump.. I don't have any pictures because I don't have my car here.. I'll get pics next month when I go home though :beer:

You werent having any trouble out of the old pump were you? I dont want to put the 044 on and it fail in a month.

 

[98 Saleen Cobra]

I didn't have the 044's I had a 255. No there was zero issues with my old setup I was just running out of fuel at the very top and I knew I needed to upgrade it for me to feel 100%. Plus I knew I wanted to up the boost from 15, so I knew a bigger fuel system was in order.. to me being on the very edge of fuel is never a good thing and its not worth the 6k motor I had just bought.

 

[Tabres]

^^^ and there ya have it.. good looking setup :beer:

That setup also probably about $1000, and thats if you piece it together yourself. I'm not knocking it, because I'm putting an identical setup on my car, but it's not really "cheap" like the OP is looking for.

 

[98 Saleen Cobra]

that's true, but if you were to use the stock lines it wouldn't be as much, there is no way around needing some of the fittings, and filters and pumps and pick up tube though. Unless you buy the stuff used you're probably looking at around 4-500 bucks.

 

[Prostyle]

I'm just going to try running my wally 255 intank with a 044 inlinand hopefully can make 600 rwhp