Ate..I hate to say it..but even if this guy lied..you have hacked and modded so much s*** just to get this thing in..it's a wonder it works at all.
And now, you have to go back in and make baffles.....I can see where this is gonna go.
I am really interested to see how long this pump will hold up and be reliable.
It sounds like you have parts just"wedged: together..and you have zip ties holding filters on in the tank...Your kidding right?
What is the Speed6...about a $25K car...and yor trusting Zip ties....?
Yup..you are definately more intelligent than that Boostd6..for sure.
And I am sorry..Getting a fuel pump to work isnt rocket science.
Couldn't you have saved your self a ton of work by making a new pickup tube assembly and adding a high flow "frame mount " style pump and called it a day. At least then it could have been put back to stock.
Well, to start, if this guy hadn't lied, I wouldn't have gotten a pump that doesn't fit. Whooosh is now in the midst of testing a direct replacement that, according to him, fits 100% perfectly with no modifications. A perfect drop in. Once he gets the tool and gets this confirmed, he'll announce all the details. Supposedly, it out flows the Walbro a tad, but it also costs ~$300.
As for the "hacking" and all, I appologize for not updating this thread as I did in the other forum. I of coarse ended up with a sealing issue between the pump and the sleeve. I was anticipating it even. I contacted Whooosh who had purchased a whole new bucket assembly to mount a new bracket inside of and he was planning on adding an adjustable regulator and ditching the sleeve altogether. He had already bored out the sleeve to fit the Walbro, but his plans no longer required it. I bought the modified sleeve from him and swapped everything out virtually problem free. I had to cut the old sleeve off of the Walbro, and upon doing so, discovered that the sleeve is also a pre-regulator filter. This means anyone ditching the sleeve should add a high flow fuel filter in-line.
As far as the zip ties go, they are merely holding the pump upright. Lateral forces in a bucket, which is locked in place in the tank cannot be enough to cause a heavy duty zip tie to fail. I would have to be side-swiped at 50+mph for those zip ties to break, and if that happens, I really don't care so much about the pump. I used good chemical proof ones too. There is no problem there what-so-ever. The book for the Walbro even suggested it, so I have no reason to believe it's shotty.
I started this project under the assumption that the Walbro was a direct replacement. As it turns out, it's not. There were no instructions on how to change a fuel pump on even a regular 6, let alone a speed 6, so I kinda had to go at it alone. I descided to guinea-pig my $30k car to find out the results, and I was prepared to do what it took to get it operational. If you're afraid to cut a little bit here or trim a little bit there, then guess what, you will always be limited to bolt-ons.
BTW, the baffels have been in for a couple weeks now without any problems either. I've had the gas light on "E" a couple times since then, and I don't have any more starvation in the bucket.
Pick up tubes, maybe for some people in the future, but you have to realize that requires alot more modifying than what I went through. When you do one of those, you have to keep into consideration the location/hieght of the pump, the location/hieght of the pick up, the location/hieght of the return line, location of the two new penetrations, plugging the two old penetrations, ect. If it wouldn't have worked, I'd be buying a new tank, not just a new bucket assembly. Now that it's confirmed to work, it can be perfected. Believe me, if you think I'm done messing with my fuel system, you are hugely mistaking.
