My Poor Kraftwerks Experience
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Chefs, I changed out my fuel pump as well. I bought the Full Blown 340 pump and the SOS wiring kit. My fuse in the kick panel kept blowing out on me and I kept hitting a boost cut every once in a while when going WOT. I think the fuel pump was heating up too much and causing too much draw and was causing the fuse to blow. With the new pump and wiring kit, the car has been running flawlessly and I have not hit any boost cuts, bogging issues, or blown fuses since.
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Just to give some hope to u guys ... I did a 3000 mile road trip last week... I'm at like 15 k on the kit and 235k on the original engine ..From New York to boca raton to savanaha Georgia to the dragon and to Atlantic city and back home .. Only hiccup was the grams fuel pump was goin on me on my way down to boca .. When the car got to a little more than half a tank full it would bogg and eventually it died on me ..so got off in Georgia and picked up a airtex 2442 ? I think .from advanced auto . Supposed to be a walbro 255 boxed under different name as I read on another forum ... So kept the tank full every hour till I got to boca and Dident have any bogging issues .. Next day changed the fuel pump in the parking lot of the hotel .. The connectors were different so I had to solder the wires directly to the pins on the fuel pump ..then soaked it with liquid tape .. I still bogg on hard turns but I can run my gas down now .. I need to get a oem fuel filter and put that on the new pump and should hopefully cure the bogging .. [attachment=89018::]
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Im reading lots of bad things about the grams pump. at least you managed to get 15K miles on it. No other issues besides the pump? re tightening the belt or anything else?
Under normal highway driving, did your MPG went down alot?
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Originally Posted by The Machine
Chefs, I changed out my fuel pump as well. I bought the Full Blown 340 pump and the SOS wiring kit. My fuse in the kick panel kept blowing out on me and I kept hitting a boost cut every once in a while when going WOT. I think the fuel pump was heating up too much and causing too much draw and was causing the fuse to blow. With the new pump and wiring kit, the car has been running flawlessly and I have not hit any boost cuts, bogging issues, or blown fuses since.
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Originally Posted by Nyther
Street mechanics FTW! Swapping out the pump is such a shitty work. Normally bogging only occurs when low on fuel and sharp left turns. Hell, i had to replace my walbro for a fullblown surge tank system to get rid of the low fuel bogging and lateron upgraded to a SOS surge tank due to space/noise issues in my trunk. Im reading lots of bad things about the grams pump. at least you managed to get 15K miles on it. No other issues besides the pump? re tightening the belt or anything else? Under normal highway driving, did your MPG went down alot?
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Originally Posted by The Machine
Chefs, I changed out my fuel pump as well. I bought the Full Blown 340 pump and the SOS wiring kit. My fuse in the kick panel kept blowing out on me and I kept hitting a boost cut every once in a while when going WOT. I think the fuel pump was heating up too much and causing too much draw and was causing the fuse to blow. With the new pump and wiring kit, the car has been running flawlessly and I have not hit any boost cuts, bogging issues, or blown fuses since.
