So I was mildly surprised when your dual-pump setup did not fully support your engine.
Do you think it was failing before you went down the JMS hole?
Is it completely dead?
@BULL you've seen updated/behind the scenes video on the channel I believe. Those are much more recent than the ones posted here publicly
I was getting some really weird testing results and couldn't figure out why. More content coming on that as well to help others who end up going down this road. In later testing BEFORE the JMS I was losing fuel pressure. That's the reason I got the JMS to begin with.
Short story, it seemed I'd get varying results every time I ran a test. Using a DMM to check things it all checked out, but the data logs didn't agree. One last thought I had was that "maybe" the Redeye fuel rails had a different fuel pressure sensor in them but I couldn't find anywhere in the tune to rescale that sensor so I emailed Mike @ OST to ask. He confirmed no place to rescale the fuel pressure sensor and doubted that was the issue. He asked if I had tested the fuel pumps as he'd seen more than one Redeye come through his shop with a failed and or failing pump.
I had done a simple idle test as described in the Tapped drop in documentation. Just unplug one pump at a time and fire up the car to make sure it runs, and mine did no problem. However at my wits end yesterday I decided to go for a drive on each pump and just see what happened. First I ran the car on just pump 1. Got out on the highway everything looked good, so I gently eased in to the throttle (NOT WOT) to put some load on it. It made 70psi all by itself which was excellent and everything else was OK. I then performed that same test on pump 2. Everything was fine until I eased down on the throttle. Car got super unhappy and stumbled. Data log showed 23psi of fuel pressure telling me that pump is failing.
So no, it's not an all at once failure it seems. It gradually gets weaker and weaker. Going back and looking at logs from Moparty in September fuel pressure was all perfect which is what kept throwing me off. I added the 2.7 supercharger, so hmmm must be maxing out the fuel pumps. Add the JMS and not much difference, JMS must be having a problem, right? LOL What an ordeal to determine a fuel pump is almost gone out.
I will say these 285 pumps can flow a LOT of fuel. I've basically been on 1.25 pumps (instead of 2) and it's been holding right at 70psi fuel pressure with 20-22psi of boost. Impressive. The fact it was ALWAYS 70psi is what made me look deeper as it was too consistent of a number. I knew something somewhere wasn't right. When putting the JMS on only one pump, I'd get different results as well which now makes sense. Jon and I have been on the phone a lot kicking ideas around for a couple weeks.
I've got two new 285s in bound. I went with those because I want the check valve, not so much for starting the car but for the fact if a pump fails I can still get home. With the 295s if a pump fails you're stuck since the fuel will flow out the bad pump since there is no check valve.
I will say I'm thankful my injector pw safety net in the tune works as designed. This likely saved my motor. I'm surprised and disappointed the pump failed so soon. First fuel pump I've ever had go out in any vehicle, and hearing it's a common issue is disheartening.