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rocketmanx · 01-27-2004, 09:06 PM

You guys may think my questions a bit dumb but, I'm gonna ask em anyway

With you guys soending so much time researching pumps, why not save some time (which is money, unless you're unemployed) and just buy a pump that's a bit overkill and use a pressure bypass valve? This way you could throttle back the pressure to find the best psi for the system. We use fuel pumps on our race engines that will do 500 gph and we don't use anywhere close to that much, and only around 10 psi. We dothat by running a pressure regulator, or bypass, valve that returns the excess fuel tothe tank. I'm just wondering, with so much time being spent buying and testing, and researching pumps, why not just buy something like a Velocity 3 or a very high performance 12 volt and use a pressure regulator?

01-27-2004, 09:06 PM	#328
rocketmanx Cooling Savant Join Date: Nov 2003 Location: Indiana Posts: 127	You guys may think my questions a bit dumb but, I'm gonna ask em anyway With you guys soending so much time researching pumps, why not save some time (which is money, unless you're unemployed) and just buy a pump that's a bit overkill and use a pressure bypass valve? This way you could throttle back the pressure to find the best psi for the system. We use fuel pumps on our race engines that will do 500 gph and we don't use anywhere close to that much, and only around 10 psi. We dothat by running a pressure regulator, or bypass, valve that returns the excess fuel tothe tank. I'm just wondering, with so much time being spent buying and testing, and researching pumps, why not just buy something like a Velocity 3 or a very high performance 12 volt and use a pressure regulator? __________________ "The more I learn the less I know, but I never knew as much as when I was sixteen"