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nocigarette
10-30-2022 11:21 AM
Originally Posted by smashm
(Post 4849775)
When I bought my Top Gun years ago, it had a couple of warmed over big blocks. When I went to look at it, it had two electric fuel pumps in the bilge & mechanical pumps on the motors. I questioned it & the owner said he bought it that way & didn't use the electric pumps since one had stopped working & the motors ran fine without them. After I bought the boat, I ran it & it ran great, so I just removed the electric pumps. It was set up that the mechanical pumps had to pull fuel through the electric pumps. It also had boost gauges in the dash so i knew it had bigger motors in it at one time. The dash was wired & had what appeared to be factory switches for the pumps.
i was told that pulling threw a elec pump was not a good idea. but it worked for you. i have fuel pressure gauges on the dash i guess i can plumb it to pull threw the elec. SHut them off once i am on plane and see what the pressure does when i ease into the throttles. i will wait till after the engines are broke in to try.
