jofarr, soddy tn http://www.csr-performance.com/ I have a potential safety question with using an electric pump, unless the engine is using a magneto. The ignition system runs on battery/alternator power. If it and the FI are run by an ECU, it too needs power. The fuel pumps need electricity. There are other electric hungry mechanism that need power. In an alternator/battery failure (short of having dual alt and batt) to have a water pump sucking 5 or more amps of power, this significantly shortens the available flight time before engine stoppage. If the engine is magnitoed, when the electrons disappear and the pump stops, all that will happen is that the engine will fry---- The result will be the same Rich -------------------------------1152594168 Content-Type: text/html; charset="US-ASCII" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable

In a message dated 7/10/2006 11:43:35 AM Central Standard Time,=20 jesse@jessfarr.com writes:

<= FONT=20 style=3D"BACKGROUND-COLOR: transparent" face=3DArial color=3D#000000 size= =3D2>Have any=20 of you ewp folks looked at CSR Performance products stuff? They
tell m= e=20 they have a high volume pump that fits into some good looking
anodized= =20 aluminum housings for big block car stuff that will pump up to 70
gpm=20= and=20 is expected to last for 5500 hours or so; and, they have a remote
that= is=20 something like davies-craig that is also expected to last about 5500
h= ours=20 and pumps around 35 to 37 gpm. They run in the $250 to $300 range,=20
supposedly use about 5 or 6 amps; and, I would like to learn from some= one=20
else's experimentation, if possible. <g>
jofarr, soddy=20 tn

http://www.csr-performance.com/

I have a potential safety question with using an electric pump, unless=20= the=20 engine is using a magneto.

The ignition system runs on battery/alternator power. If it and the FI=20= are=20 run by an ECU, it too needs power. The fuel pumps need electricity. There ar= e=20 other electric hungry mechanism that need power.

In an alternator/battery failure (short of having dual alt and batt) to= =20 have a water pump sucking 5 or more amps of power, this significantly shorte= ns=20 the available flight time before engine stoppage.

If the engine is magnitoed, when the electrons disappear and the p= ump=20 stops, all that will happen is that the engine will fry---- The result will=20= be=20 the same

Rich

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