Over the years we’ve read online comments or been asked why our fuel system kits are more expensive than some of the others on the market. We have needed to put this in writing for a long time, just to save us the time typing or answering it over and over again. There are a number of reasons why our product might be more expensive than someone else, the list below shows the biggest reasons.
Trial and error are a fine way to figure some things out, we’ve all done it that way at some point. That’s pretty much how the 7.3L/6.0L Powerstroke aftermarket has figured out what fuel pumps will support what injectors for years, for a number of reasons.
After flowing a bunch of fuel pumps on our fuel system flow bench, we started thinking that it would be interesting to see how much fuel the actual cylinder heads can move through their integral fuel rails.
Fuel temperature seems to pop up as a topic of discussion among those doing 7.3L or 6.0L fuel system modifications every few years. Most recently, a manufacturer and proponent of the “4-Corner Feed” style of fuel system has been pushing “Lower Fuel Temperatures” as a selling point for their product…
Owners of 94-97 “OBS” Powerstrokes struggle with performance upgrades that require larger than stock fuel pumps because it always brings up the fuel tank dilemma…sacrificing fuel tank capacity (miles per fill-up) for performance, or replacing the rear fuel tank with a “Bronco Tank” (or equivalent) in order to maintain the capacity but run on a single tank.
There’s a conversation that I must have had with different customers thousands of times by now over the last 20+ years, and as I’ve been working on these articles, it occurred to me that it might be worth putting it into writing …
If you just finished reading my “Air in Fuel (pt 1)” article about THE HUTCH MOD, the next part will be a quick refresher. If not, it will set you up to understand why Air in Diesel Fuel is an important concern and why we look at different ways of preventing it…
During the same period of time that we were all testing different variations of engine fuel system plumbing (Regulated Return work), another F-D.com member named Mark Hutchison (hutchinaugusta) made an equally, if not bigger discovery in the fuel delivery system underneath our trucks.
