I have an A1000 pump and my car sees a good bit of street use. Ive heard they can get hot and die. Instead of dishing out the 300 bucks or so for a pump controller could I just fab a cooler out of an old AC core? And run it before the pump?

 

Would the fuel be hot there?

I don't think it would do much good to take 80° fuel out of the tank and run it through a "cooler" out in the 90° world.

 

This is where I have seen other coolers go. The pump gets hot, the fuel gets hot, and the more it circulates, the warmer the fuel gets. Is this something I shouldnt worry about? I may have the car out for an hour and a half burning up the popular strips (street) around here.

 

I'm considering doing it on the low pressure side. I'm gonna use an old simple oil cooler it the return line so it cools before going back into the tank. It gets hot from the being on the intake manifold, so I think it might help.

 

Oh, mines a carb. I had also thought about running two power wires to pump. One with a resistor in it, and the other hooked up to a pressure switch that would come on at say 6psi. Thats really all those fuel pump controllers do right?