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Fuel pump: flow rate vs psi

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Old 01-09-2017, 07:19 AM
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Originally Posted by 20Silverado03
if the pump was lined up to a carb would that also be a closed system?
No, fuel would be flowing out through the jets when the car is running. Depending on the throttle position, either a little or a lot.

Usually you will be about 7psi to your carb iirc? The pressure needs to be low enough that your needle valves connected to your floats can hold closed against the incoming pressure, when the bowls are at the appropriate fuel level. Its been about 15 years since I've worked on a carb. Switched to EFI about 2 decades ago and never looked back. You would need to know the flow rate of that pump, at that pressure, to determine what the pump is capable of. Since carbs operate at such low pressure, the volume capability of the pump should be close to what the free flow number is.
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I need a gauge for that
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There will be regulator in the system that basically chokes off flow to raise the pressure at the pump. Think of it like blowing through a normal straw. At low pressure you move a certain volume of air. If you were to now blow through a coffee straw you have to blow a lot harder (more pressure) to move the same volume of air. The regulator is the straw in this case determining how much pressure the pump provides.
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Research "pump head" or "bernoulli energy conservation for pumps"
that'll tell you everything you need to know from(npsh) cavitation, to discharge capacity and pump requirements.



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