Fueling help non Toyota

[maddox710]

Just trying to help a friend out with his kit car.

He's having trouble with what seems to be fuel starvation, he has a fairly nice setup on his Robin Hood kit car, with race tank swirl pot and 044. But it's seems to splutter Alot on heavy load acceleration, all the ignition system has been renewed so it's not that.

Any ideas peeps?

Edited May 8, 2015 by maddox710

[maddox710]

Bump?

[Flaminsam]

Does he have an In tank pump? The Bosch 044 needs to have a gravity feed from the swirl pot as it doesn't "suck" as such. Something like a walbro 255 in the tank to feed the swirl pot should do it. Then the 044 should have plenty of fuel supplied.

[maddox710]

Does he have an In tank pump? The Bosch 044 needs to have a gravity feed from the swirl pot as it doesn't "suck" as such. Something like a walbro 255 in the tank to feed the swirl pot should do it. Then the 044 should have plenty of fuel supplied.

It's got a facet low pressure pump feeding it, cheers for the reply sam

Edited May 9, 2015 by maddox710

[Flaminsam]

No worries

The low pressure pump may not have enough flow to feed the 044. A walbro or similar will help as it will be able to feed the swirl pot with enough fuel to allow the 044 to work properly.

[maddox710]

He has a fuel filter before the Lp pump and non return valve on the return to tank, that won't effect it will it?

[Flaminsam]

It shouldn't do depending on the filter itself. If the filter is designed to work on a pressurised system like a starlet one for instance then it's possible that the filter element has collapsed causing the fuel starvation. He may be better off just putting a filter after the 044 to the engine really.