You might ask; won’t a mechanical fuel pump have a hard time flowing enough fuel for a supercharged 429? No.
Enter in possibly the greatest swap meet find I’ve ever had! For the nice price of $50 I purchased a CV products BBF mechanical fuel pump with optional high flow outlet, which is rated at 190gal/hour or 1151 lb/hr. That’s a LOT of fuel flow.
My Fairmont has a 16 gallon tank which means that pump will be able to make the fuel gage go from F to E in 5.05 minutes. (OUCH!).
Actually before I found this fuel pump lurking in the Buckeye building at the All Ford Spring Super swap meet, I had never even heard of CV products. Not knowing anything about this fuel pump (or that it even existed) I figured it was worth the $50 risk because I could immediately tell this was a hardcore piece of speed equipment. Man am I happy I took that risk. Every part of this fuel pump is billet aluminum and even the fuel pump “arm” is polished to a mirror finish to reduce the possibility of cracking! Retail price of the fuel pump is $469! I also need to add that it's a simple design and easily rebuildable.
I had planned on running a Carter super race series fuel pump rated at 172 gal/hr, but not anymore! This CV products fuel pump is the Bad Boy of BBF mechanical fuel pumps.
Anyway, if you have some time check out CV products website, also now added to the side bar. They make a lot of NASCAR racing components, and their quality is best I’ve ever seen.
Peace.
WesleyJ
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