XB03AllyProud
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I recently had my 225PM rebuilt by Jay Smith with his mods he does and have been almost 2 yrs into setting up a XB02. He had a couple hrs run time on it and ran great, I got it all going on the hose week or so ago and all great just idling. I got just one real thing to do before putting on the water-He brought up due to mods and fuel needs now that I may need to setup a 2-3PSI pump(Holley Blue) to feed the VST tank as the pulse pump may not be able to keep up pulling thru primer bulb etc from our stock tanks with the standpipe as they are. So question is- most low pressure pumps are designed to be gravity fed I thought, so will they also suffer trying to pump out of our non-gravity fed fuel pickups? Any other pumps that would work as well to feed the VST tank. I would be eliminating the pulse pump. Or any other suggestions anyone has had to do on a similar build? Or is this not necessary? I have full faith in Jay and he knows his builds, just I didn't remember hearing this before from anyone that it was needed. Ultimately I will do whatever it takes to make sure she never starves or anything else bad happens to cause harm. I thought about eliminating the VST and plumbing Pro-Stock with return to tank, but that even has me questioning if a Bosch setup that way can be fed plenty on suction side from our pickups not being at bottom of tank gravity fed. Thoughts anyone? You guys with 260 and more HP than I have and pumps in boat are you using the stock pickup/ standpipe in our tanks? Any drawbacks to going Prostock and getting rid of VST. To me it is 1 less pump to run and to fail if I need the electric pump to feed VST. I have the old style external Bosch pump setup on my VST so mounting it in boat is no issue, will it work in a prostock setup or do I actually need a 260 pump which I have one but my PM size pump is brand new and I have a 2nd one NIB never opened for backup.
Would one of these small pumps work for feeding VST, they do say gravity feed and that has me concerned without doing the low bulkhead fitting-
Mr Gasket
Would one of these small pumps work for feeding VST, they do say gravity feed and that has me concerned without doing the low bulkhead fitting-
Mr Gasket
- Micro Electric
- 12 Volt
- 2 to 3.5 PSI
- Flow Rate (gph): 28 gph
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