speirsy

Afternoon all, I'm looking to fit a walbro fuel pump to support the mods getting fitted in the near future (decat,exhaust system,exhaust headers, TD/05 16G turbo and ecu remap) and will be looking to fit a more heavy duty fuel regulator to control the fueling. I'll probably be looking at Sard, SX or Aeromotive. Where's the best place to buy and whats recommended? Also what other fittings etc will be needed to fit the walbro/regulator.

Any recommendations and information would be appreciated.

Cheers
Grant

scantsmcj

suggest you search on 'fuel regulator' for background chat about this. I have just fitted walbro pump to support re-map and can smell petrol on stopping car. Also fuel consumption increased by about 15%. Haveny got to the solution yet but fuel regulation might be in the frame.

speirsy

Will do mate. Anywbody else any input at all?

ScuuBdoo

I got my Walbro pump from flat4online. Cheapest there is at 85GBP delivered.

dazdavies

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sx seems to be the prefered choice on here although some use the aerolabs ones. Stay away from the FSE ones though as I have heard varying reports.

Here's a pic of mine in situ.



hope that helps

Daz

Mocom Racing

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Grant,

we stock the Fuelab FPR's which look nice in black if you're after something a little more discreet. They can be had on their own, or as a kit containing the adaptor to replace the OEM FPR and either hose or AN fittings for £240.00 inclusive. Braided hose, AN fittings and fuel rails also stocked if required

jasonius

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You don't say what MY scoob it is. For instance, newage scoobs, at that level, are fine on oem FPR..!

speirsy

Cheers for the info guys, I meant to mention that its a classic MY00 sti 6.

scantsmcj

Mine is also classic MY 2000 P1 (STi 6 I think) and it appears that the 'classic' fuel regulator might be a problem with Walbro fitted.

jaytc2003

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hmmmm could be a can of worms this, some say the std regulator cant cope with a walbro some say it can. In my experience my my93 ran fine with a walbro on the std regulator (did have full decat though) fuel economy was no worse. I am now still running the walbro and std regulator along with a power fc and touch wood still no issues (not a real comparison as with the power fc it would be mapped anyway to the fuel going in iyswim)

dazdavies

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My walbro over powered my standard reg and hence it let too much fuel back to the tank ending up in a melted number 3 piston:







Hence why I now have parrallel rails with the flow reversed braided hoses and an SX regulator.




DAZ

silent running

The only consensus seems to be that FSE ones are no good. Or at best unreliable. The other fancy looking ones (e.g. SX, Fuelab, Aeromotive) are a lot more money but don't seem to have any issues that I've heard of on here. I bought an Aeromotive from the US, pretty cheap, mainly because apart from here on Scoobynet, SX and Fuelab are big unknowns to me, whereas Aeromotive is known and trusted the world over. It's the -6 fittings that are the expensive bit btw.

T5OLF

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I’m running an OE reg with no issues on my 93 RA

255 pump
FMIC
Power FC
550 injectors
Etc etc

Mocom Racing

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Nice rails Daz

dazdavies

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I decided not to take any chances which is why I have gone all out with parallel rails, braided hoses, goodridge fittings and sx reg especially as I am running 740cc injectors and planning circa 550bhp instead of the circa 400 I am running now.


LOL ZAK I still havent sent my standard ones off to you for my £50 refund will I still get it considering its been a few months now??

Mocom Racing

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If I get them back Daz you'll have the refund , it'll be the first set I've had back in a long time, everyone seems to hold onto them lately