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Originally Posted by steinepstein
Ok, welp, I read the piece about the surge tank from Stielow, ok back to drawing board.
JE
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I was thinking of doing this as well, but back to
Stielow... I agree that a pump that isn't moving any fuel is not being cooled or lubricated, but in this picture below, the low-pressure, high-volume rear pump is always flowing good volume, and the the high-pressure low volume FI pump at the front is doing what it would otherwise be doing if it were just sucking gas from the regular tank and sending it all the way forward to the engine. Maybe throw cooling fins on the surge tank or a cooler on the return from the FPR, and another cooler on return from surge -> main tank... where would heating and lubrication issues come from? I'm in 4th year of mechanical so feel free to explain all "engineery like' if need be!
Thanks,
Joe
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