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Originally Posted by spuggy View Post

Fitting two pumps - in series - if one will do the job increases, not reduces, the chance of failure.

What happens if a pump dies? Exactly the same as the overboost protection kicking in. You have a pump forcing gas through a dead pump. Or a dead pump at the tank restricting flow to the good pump. You're in limp home mode.
Or the car goes lean and you toast your engine.

I remember that VW had some issues with tank pumps going bad in their Golf MKII cars. The cars would go lean and die. I would hate to see the AFR when that happened under boost. I guess a fuel gauge with a low pressure warning light would remedy that though.

Thanks again for the input.
Old 03-22-2013, 08:39 PM
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