Re: [Quantum Owners] Xtreame fuel pump upgrade?

2016-04-11 Thread Ian Harrison
Zetec blacktop running a standard plenum on the inlet side. The fuel pump is a high pressure one from a Vauxhall I seem to recall. It has the right size inlet and outlet pipes. Mine has a feed and return pipe but I do not run a separate swirl pot. For the sump I have an ERA (Tiger racing)

Re: [Quantum Owners] Xtreame fuel pump upgrade?

2016-04-10 Thread Nigel Plant
Hi Robert. I suspect you gave the standard Quantum set up with flow and return pipe. On Omex system, when you first turn ignigion on without starting the pump pressurises for approx 10 secs then stops. It is noisy. Whats puzzling me is that there shouldn't be sny difference switching from

[Quantum Owners] Xtreame fuel pump upgrade?

2016-04-10 Thread Nigel Plant
Sorry forgot the sump bit. Mine is standard blacktop, with alloy sump casing and steel pan on bottom. It does look low, but has never been a major problem, but I do go sliwly over speed bumps. A few times I have scraped it going fast on bumpy roads snd off track excursions. When I had the sump

Re: [Quantum Owners] Xtreame fuel pump upgrade?

2016-04-10 Thread Chris Young
I take it you have switched to having a low pressure pump feeding a swirl pot, then out the swirl pot a high pressure pump feeding the fuel rail? I run a Rover v8 so perhaps not a good comparison of pumps. On Sun, 10 Apr 2016, 13:26 'robert greig' via Quantum Owners Group, <

[Quantum Owners] Xtreame fuel pump upgrade?

2016-04-10 Thread 'robert greig' via Quantum Owners Group
Hello everyone. I'm getting my Xtreame  Zetechblack top a set on Throtle Body's.Now they are on the fuel pump is making a noise. We replaced it same thing. We have a fuel regulator 3bar.  What fuel pump do you use?  Also what clearance from the oil sump do you have?  I have a two part alloy