bojo68

My fuel pump was making me nervous, and the local boneyard had a sale day. I was primarily looking for some REAL fuel pumps, figuring if I'm going to mess with it might as well get it DONE once and for all. As it happened, I only found one good one, and one that was just to new, to easy to get out, and came with lots of good quality hoses and clamps.(my 6 month old NAPA fuel rated line was found stretched and leaking) The one I used as a replacement came off a xj6 Jaguar, was sitting right up in the trunk(BOOT in Jaguar speak) all nice and new and clean looking. I grabbed it, even though it said LUCAS(cough, choke, puke, on it.) Closer inspection revealed a BOSCH part# stamped in, and the Lucas was just a decal noting the type for replacement purposes. They're rated at 130 lph@~35 psi, somewhat similar to oe datsun. Mounted up easy, half of the insulating rubber from the jag inside the Datsun bracket did it, with a little longer hose and routing on the pressure side and it's a done deal. Grounded one side with existing wiring, spliced the hot side to the Jag wire.
Total cost, 14$ and about an hour install time.(wasn't in any hurry) Seems to work fine so far, although there are some bugs in the car yet, so the jury is not in yet. Haven't had a guage on it yet either, but it's quieter than my other one, and judging from the noise the relief valve makes, it's consistent.
I don't think it's complete waste of money because the in tank pumps I'm planning on are known to be good for 500whp each, and another similar to the one just installed in series with those would probably be enough.(yeah, I know, series setups suck, but it'll work, it's cheap, and I can PWM half or all of it.)

One other thing, Jag uses the same pump on the v12's, while I know they were pretty much a slug, I don't know what kind of mileage they got. Point is there has to be some pretty decent volume involved as the v12''s are 326 cu/in, and 275 hp iirc. Bosh rates their pumps VERY conservatively. Their standards are something like it must meet rating at 60% voltage for cold starts.

WildmaN

Wow interesting find with that. Sounds like you scored pretty well. Hope it continues to work for you. It is a far cry from a new or re-manufactored pump. Props man.

bojo68

Thanks! The SCORE was the 175$ BOSCH(motorsport only) intank pump, good for 500 RWHP, for 14$!