Hey, I bought a walbro fuel pump over a year back before mapping, cars been running 270bhp for the same amount of time, now I'm upgrading to the vf35 turbo and I've heard stories of 'fake walbro pumps' is there anyway you can spot a fake while its on the car? As in the sound it makes while priming ect? Just it was bought of ebay

 

not really. if its been in for a while and working then dont worry abotu it.

the mapper (as long as they are a decent mapper) will be bale to tell if the fuel pump is giving up the ghost

 

Guess ill find out soon enough. I done a search and it came up on another forum, some guy describing there's, sounds similar to mine, came in a sytec box has walbro ingraved on the pump and made in usa. Any how turned out to be fine so fingers crossed.

 

the youtube vid i saw a while back was with the pump outside the car, sounds very different when fitted

 

Would the mapped of been able to spot if it was fake when they mapped it a year back, was evotune who done the map

 

if it was performing ok then doubtfull it would have been spotted.

where did you buy it from?

 

I bought it off ebay, I'm sure the seller was j4parmance it came in a sytec box




This is not mine I pinched this photo of the internet but same box

 

just get scoobyworx fuel pump, you know is genuine and you have 2 years warranty

 

sounds ok,

http://www.driftworks.com/forum/tech...pump-fake.html

 

Cool, hopefully its all good, worst case my mapper tells me to change it, then go back I suppose

 

J4performance is a good seller and wouldn't sell fake walbros and yes that sytec is a walbro as that's how they are branded/boxed

 

Ah that's good new 😆

 

So people, dont worry that because your walbro comes in a sytec box its fake thats normal.

Thats the good news bit

bad news bit........... the Fake Walbro pumps also come in an sytec box as well which is a perfect copy as it the pump to look at, its just the insides which are garbage.

Side by side you normally wont tell on the good copies. But when mapping and adjusting fuel trim then a good mapper will see a fake