Mechanical vs. electric fuel pump?

Mad...

I'm pretty skeptical about those numbers that Carter claims...That small body and 172 [email protected] lbs seems really optimistic.
The big 6 valve Alcohol pumps have a body twice the size of those 4862 style carter pumps and they flow those kinda numbers that carter claims 172 gph.We just gave up using the 6 valve pumps and went with belt driven pumps.
When ever we got the volume/flow up to a TRUE 120 plus GPH a bypass or return line was needed.
It's been a long time since I've had to play with a mechanical pump but the amount of fuel that I got out of them with my test rig was no where close to the claimed numbers at the time.
The 120 gph out of a stock style carter pump as mentioned above just reinforced what I found out years ago...very very optimistic claims.
But hey...if it works for you that's all that matters


This pump is in no way small like the stock bodied pump. It barely fits and I had to Grind my block away about 3/8's of an inch for it to clear. For what I am doing it should be fine. Carter says it will feed a 800 hp engine, I dont know about that though........should be good enough for what I am doing.