Hi,

I have a Kitcar that just happens to have a felicia fuel tank fitted to it, (it was a convinient shape for the bottom of the car).

I bought the tank including it's pump and sender from a breakers a few years ago. I don't know which model it was from. I removed the pump and threw it away (stupid), and drilled a hole in the bottom of the tank to connect to an external fuel pump that was already running my car (a v6 cosworth engine). All works fine.

I have kept the original Skoda sender unit for my fuel gauge.

Now I started to think that a better solution rather than having the pump externally, would be to put a pump back in the tank. I have been told that the felicia pump won't flow enough fuel for my engine, so I would like to know if anyone can suggest a pump that will fit inplace of the original Skoda pump, and will be man enough to run my engine.

Thanks,

Rob.

Which engine you running off it?

It's a Granada Cosworth engine, 2.9L 24V. Engine code is BOA.

they are about 190bhp, that should fall fell below the rated capacity of the standard skoda fuel pump tbh, the rated flow of a mpi fuel pump is approx 65 litres per hour, that engine would use around 50 litres per hour as a rough rule of thumb estimate

Thanks for the info Tom. My Felicia Haynes manual says that Regulated Fuel Pressure is 2.5 bar and the pump flow rate is 1100cc/min, so 65 litres per hour sounds near enough correct.

I had the following advice from a Ford forum, which made me think that the standard Skoda pump wouldn't be enough (I wish I had kept it and I could have just tried it,- but I threw it away years ago):

"The skoda pump fuel pressure with 2.5 bar and a flow of half that of a boa is not enough. The system pressure of a boa is 2.7 to 3.2 bar."

And

"from memory you need a pump that can do 255 litres per hour for 500 bhp

you need about 120 lph. 1100 cc/min is 66 lph so I would say not a hope I'm afraid"

I was hoping to find that someone (possibly like yourself) had fitted a monster of an engine to a Felicia and could reccomend a pump that they used as a direct fit in the Skoda tank.

Cheers,

Rob.

to make a proper calculation you need the brake specific fuel consumption number

the felicia has a fuel regulator on injector rail 2.5bar have you tryed looking at the vr6 golf mk3 fuel pump

The mk 3 golf fuel pump is also rated at 1100cc/min and that includes the vr6 model too, you will ave to just take my word for it I guess... Word out.

Thanks for your input guys. I suppose I will just have to get hold of another Felicia pump and give it a try sometime.

Cheers,

Rob.

is it the pump that twists in to the tank base or the later one that hangs from the top of the tank?

as almost all the VW pumps will fit including the octavia vrs etc they all have the same size top just different plugs on them, they have a much better swirlpot built in than most aftermarket systems do too.

Jim do you know if the fuel gauge sender is compatible with the dash on those vw pumps? I think I might fit one to the 20v car after the mot is all sorted.

i got a 20v turbo fuel reg 4.0bar on my car makes it fuel more and that flat spot not there

Jim do you know if the fuel gauge sender is compatible with the dash on those vw pumps? I think I might fit one to the 20v car after the mot is all sorted.

I don't Tom but the actual sender part does separate from the swirl pot so you could keep the felly one.

Jim do you know if the fuel gauge sender is compatible with the dash on those vw pumps? I think I might fit one to the 20v car after the mot is all sorted.

Have you retained the original fuel pump, or have you changed it out during your conversion?

All original on mine.