**James's Lube Corner: Installing a Hellcat Fuel Pump and Tuning Up a Car**

Welcome to James's Lube Corner, where we tackle the toughest projects in automotive tuning. Today, we're going to install a new fuel pump on a car that's been modified with a Hellcat engine. This is a high-performance upgrade that requires careful planning and execution.

First, let's take a look at the current setup. The original factory fuel line goes through a connector, but our Hellcat pump requires a different configuration. To solve this problem, we need to add two studs to the lid of the tank. These studs will provide power and ground for the new fuel pump.

James is very careful when working with electrical components, especially since they can be easily damaged or cause an explosion. He uses a fine-tooth comb to ensure that all hoses are secure and not pinched. The goal is to create a safe and reliable fueling system.

Now that the hardware is installed, it's time to test the fuel pump. James starts the engine and listens for any unusual sounds. To his relief, everything seems to be working properly.

Next, we head over to Yimi Sport in Valencia to get the car tuned on E85. The original estimate was 224 horsepower for a bone-stock car, but with our modifications, we're expecting 325 horsepower from a low-car model and 405 horsepower from a high-car model.

The car is performing well, and James is excited to see the results of their hard work. He's hoping for around 375 horsepower from the low-car model, which would be an impressive feat given its small size.

As they fine-tune the engine, James mentions that he's hoping to push the limits of what's possible with this car. With a little creativity and expertise, it's not out of the question that they could squeeze even more power out of it.

The results are in, and James is thrilled to see that the car is pulling like a Taffy maker! The low-car model is making 325 horsepower, while the high-car model is producing an astonishing 474 horsepower. That's almost seven times more than what we started with!

James is pleased with the outcome of their hard work and can't wait to share it with his audience. He encourages everyone to subscribe to his channel for more exciting projects and automotive tutorials.

The scientist behind the tuning process did a great job, and James is eager to see what other projects they'll be working on in the future. For now, though, he's just happy to have pushed the limits of what's possible with this car.

As we wrap up this episode, James invites us all to join him on his next adventure. With a little creativity and expertise, there's no limit to what we can achieve with our cars. So be sure to hit that subscribe button and join the conversation!

WEBVTTKind: captionsLanguage: enthis is a 43 000 Subaru WRX and this is a twenty one thousand dollar Subaru WRX this car got all the expensive parts and this one got all the cheap ones and today is no different we are going to be converting both of these cars to E85 one of the most cost effective modifications you can do to a car to make more power baby then we're gonna take them to the dyno and see how much power that corn juice really makes oh wow see but what the heck even is E85 E85 is a fuel blend predominantly composed of 85 ethanol and 15 gasoline tailored especially for use in Flex field Vehicles ethanol gives the fuel a higher octane rating compared to standard gasoline and this higher octane rating allows for increased compression ratios without the risk of detonation we love increased compression ratios around here on top of all that E85 contains oxygen which can make the combustion process more efficient engines tuned specifically for E85 can take full advantage of its properties adjusting ignition timing Airfield ratios and boost levels to extract more power when running on E85 compared to just plain old gas however while E85 can provide more power baby gallon per gallon E85 contains less energy leading to reduced fuel economy the advantage in power often comes from the ability to exploit 85's favorable combustion character sticks rather than its inherent energy content now what's it take to put this magic fuel in our cars you guessed it parts it's a good little little group I'm not done oh he's like nice you know when a car part looks like a paintball gun it's nice we have new injectors new fuel rail new fuel pump and loads and loads of tubes to convert High car that big orange Beast back there into an e857 monster what do you have Nolan uh I got this why am I putting all this crap on my car and you're not putting anything on yours well as I understand it a bunch of parts that we installed already they were already E85 compatible so all we got to do is just put this little sensor in here and the computer does the rest wow accidental foresight helps out Nolan again but because our parts are so much nicer and we have invested so much more time and money into high cars our ceiling is way higher imagine Nolan's potential for power is like a basement apartment it stinks in its first story and our potential for power is a freaking Cathedral there you go Professional Drive let's get it come on me and you dude I'm gonna get started on wiring we've got this nice little kit from eyewire supposed to be pretty much all Plug and Play which is nice it's gonna be a little time consuming you got to Route some wires through the cabin but uh shouldn't be very difficult so I'm just gonna get cracking first things first we're gonna disconnect the bat tray anytime you're doing any wiring stuff on a car it's a good idea to be able to go ahead and lose your radio presets second thing second gotta pull the hair back because it's super annoying oh this is our thick power wire so we got to get this from the battery back to the fuel pump I just want to find a nice clean path it's not going to get super hot or melt on the engine or anything I'm going to Route it under the carpet along the driver's side of the car and then it'll cut over the back seat to the area that it needs to be so I'm just gonna go piece by piece and shove it under the carpet moving right along I just got to figure out where these plugs live plug them in and then Mount our new controller somewhere nice out of the way oh yeah bye bye wires I hope I never have to see you again okay do your job don't burn down thank you look at them over there all those complications all that money Justin if you keep talking trash something's bound to go wrong this bag represents your current internet browser it's basic it's clunky and it's overloaded with so many tabs but with today's sponsor Opera one your browser will look a lot like this it's modern organized and secure with free 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we like to have fuel all the time all right disconnecting a fuel line is a certified safety glasses moment now I'm safe Here Comes okay that's it that was it a lot less pressure than I thought it was going to be and now these are actual spontaneously combust ERS call me Mario so many pipes standifold officially off ammo oh so I'm removing the old fuel injectors and the old fuel line because we're not going to reuse any of those the main advantage of E85 is it's a lot more stable than gasoline meaning it explodes a lot more predictably however ethanol has less energy than gasoline does per gallon but because we are able to shove so much air into our engine using our big old turbo that means we can match that air with a lot more fuel I ship up the whole milkshake this thing has 1000 cc injectors in it right now we're replacing those with 1300 and that'll give us more fuel more air more power all right here's what we have for a fuel pump this is a walbro 525 straight out of a Hellcat 525 means it flows 525 liters per hour which is a bunch should be plenty for our needs and should be pretty easy to install so well let's do it okay here's our sending unit which is comprised of the sock it's like a pre-filter the fuel pump then we've got a post filter here and we've got our fuel level sensor here that just floats with the amount of gas in the tank and sends a little signal to the needle on your dash well if you look clean in there dude it clean in there it cleaned in there the truth is you know when we originally built these cars I think we always thought that we might convert them to E85 but even if you're not going for E85 right now but you think you might want to in the future you should give yourself enough Headroom with your parts which will mean spending a little bit more money up front but then you don't have to spend it again consider the future of the car and build it appropriately the part of our fuel pump upgrade setup what we need to do is basically Pass power and ground through this lid normally from the factory that goes through this connector but that's for like a factory size fuel pump with our Hellcat pump and the amount of power that it draws we can very easily burn these wires or this connector and then you don't have fuel anymore so what we need to do is add these two studs to this lid these will become our power and ground and they'll seal up with these nice little washers that'll allow us to feed our new big Hellcat fuel pump with all the power it needs wants and craves oh yeah nice fit how much gasoline oh I am out of my mind right now dude the wiring studs that we put here in the lid I thought I would just be fine you know with where I put them but they're really close to touching the edge of the tank and I don't think they touch right now but I really don't want to risk it because if the stud that's getting power touches this gas tank it's going to short out I just want to make sure that we don't explode what I think I'm gonna do is probably just use a file and move this Edge back a little bit and just give myself a little piece of mind I don't want anybody to explode welcome back to James's Lube corner you're gonna be really careful because real pain if you blow your o-ring so you gotta use lots of lube James did a really good job of getting the intake manifold and all the fueling components ready to put on the car we've got all our new and lines here so let's slap this thing on huh how hard could it be how does this go oh I forgot the gaskets this is cramp space before I put the rest of the hardware in I'm just going to kind of go around with fine-tooth comb make sure no hoses are pinched make sure nothing's out of place out of whack just you know make sure everything's in its home home is where the heart is a bunch of going on Under This Hood yeah just remember cars of pain because of paint all right all our fueling upgrades are installed and it's time to see if this thing will run I hope it starts it should I think okay fuel pump's working I can hear it I didn't explode so that's good yeah all right battery dead yeah what's going on I guess all right you ready baby here we go sounded odd foreign we are out here at yimi sport up in Valencia to get the cars tuned on E85 originally the cars made what Justin 224 horsepower bone stock and now low car makes 325 horsepower High car makes 405 horsepower and we're going to see a little bit of a boost here today hopefully safely what do you think low car is going to make first I'm also going to play it a little safe I'm hoping for 375 I think that's going to be a ton of power in that little car over here though job and James did so many awesome mods to this thing I'm hoping to see like 500 horsepower I think that'd be amazing let's see what we can do let's get in that Dino room let's get started okay so Justin I guessed 375 horsepower so did I okay so let's look oh wow oh my God I did not expect that at all oh yeah okay dude it pulls like it's like a Taffy maker so before we put it on corn how much power did this car make it's making 325 horsepower and then after how much does it make 393. that is almost seven almost seven yeah for an afternoon of work that is more effective than most things you could do to a car all right get any five is sick yeah I love it finally the scientist did something right after 85 High car made 474 horsepower almost 500 horsepower almost 69. nice horsepower difference and apparently the ceiling is not even close to being touched I mean we're gonna start breaking stuff before we run out of power this transmission those days are numbers very very numbers but again I think we'll put something cool in it go ahead and hit the Subscribe button so you don't miss us putting a very expensive Transmission in this old dumb carthis is a 43 000 Subaru WRX and this is a twenty one thousand dollar Subaru WRX this car got all the expensive parts and this one got all the cheap ones and today is no different we are going to be converting both of these cars to E85 one of the most cost effective modifications you can do to a car to make more power baby then we're gonna take them to the dyno and see how much power that corn juice really makes oh wow see but what the heck even is E85 E85 is a fuel blend predominantly composed of 85 ethanol and 15 gasoline tailored especially for use in Flex field Vehicles ethanol gives the fuel a higher octane rating compared to standard gasoline and this higher octane rating allows for increased compression ratios without the risk of detonation we love increased compression ratios around here on top of all that E85 contains oxygen which can make the combustion process more efficient engines tuned specifically for E85 can take full advantage of its properties adjusting ignition timing Airfield ratios and boost levels to extract more power when running on E85 compared to just plain old gas however while E85 can provide more power baby gallon per gallon E85 contains less energy leading to reduced fuel economy the advantage in power often comes from the ability to exploit 85's favorable combustion character sticks rather than its inherent energy content now what's it take to put this magic fuel in our cars you guessed it parts it's a good little little group I'm not done oh he's like nice you know when a car part looks like a paintball gun it's nice we have new injectors new fuel rail new fuel pump and loads and loads of tubes to convert High car that big orange Beast back there into an e857 monster what do you have Nolan uh I got this why am I putting all this crap on my car and you're not putting anything on yours well as I understand it a bunch of parts that we installed already they were already E85 compatible so all we got to do is just put this little sensor in here and the computer does the rest wow accidental foresight helps out Nolan again but because our parts are so much nicer and we have invested so much more time and money into high cars our ceiling is way higher imagine Nolan's potential for power is like a basement apartment it stinks in its first story and our potential for power is a freaking Cathedral there you go Professional Drive let's get it come on me and you dude I'm gonna get started on wiring we've got this nice little kit from eyewire supposed to be pretty much all Plug and Play which is nice it's gonna be a little time consuming you got to Route some wires through the cabin but uh shouldn't be very difficult so I'm just gonna get cracking first things first we're gonna disconnect the bat tray anytime you're doing any wiring stuff on a car it's a good idea to be able to go ahead and lose your radio presets second thing second gotta pull the hair back because it's super annoying oh this is our thick power wire so we got to get this from the battery back to the fuel pump I just want to find a nice clean path it's not going to get super hot or melt on the engine or anything I'm going to Route it under the carpet along the driver's side of the car and then it'll cut over the back seat to the area that it needs to be so I'm just gonna go piece by piece and shove it under the carpet moving right along I just got to figure out where these plugs live plug them in and then Mount our new controller somewhere nice out of the way oh yeah bye bye wires I hope I never have to see you again okay do your job don't burn down thank you look at them over there all those complications all that money Justin if you keep talking trash something's bound to go wrong this bag represents your current internet browser it's basic it's clunky and it's overloaded with so many tabs but with today's sponsor Opera one your browser will look a lot like this it's modern organized and secure with free ad and tracker blocking see it features the first ever fully integrated AI called Arya that can answer questions generate text or code brainstorm ideas and much more all from the custom sidebar but what's really cool is Opera's tab Islands this Innovative feature allows you to group multiple tabs together on a dedicated Island and with one click they're out of the way until you need them again so ditch the default browser and download offer one for free right now or just click the link below super easy day for us we're just going to switch a couple fuel lines over plug in two sensors done we only have to do two bolts that's it wrench sucks along with this flex fuel sensor we're also installing a fuel pressure sensor which basically if it sees a drop in fuel pressure you know while you're going around track or whatever giving it the beans uh the computer compensates for that and gives you more juice it's not a totally necessary sensor to install but we like to have our bases covered and we like to have fuel all the time all right disconnecting a fuel line is a certified safety glasses moment now I'm safe Here Comes okay that's it that was it a lot less pressure than I thought it was going to be and now these are actual spontaneously combust ERS call me Mario so many pipes standifold officially off ammo oh so I'm removing the old fuel injectors and the old fuel line because we're not going to reuse any of those the main advantage of E85 is it's a lot more stable than gasoline meaning it explodes a lot more predictably however ethanol has less energy than gasoline does per gallon but because we are able to shove so much air into our engine using our big old turbo that means we can match that air with a lot more fuel I ship up the whole milkshake this thing has 1000 cc injectors in it right now we're replacing those with 1300 and that'll give us more fuel more air more power all right here's what we have for a fuel pump this is a walbro 525 straight out of a Hellcat 525 means it flows 525 liters per hour which is a bunch should be plenty for our needs and should be pretty easy to install so well let's do it okay here's our sending unit which is comprised of the sock it's like a pre-filter the fuel pump then we've got a post filter here and we've got our fuel level sensor here that just floats with the amount of gas in the tank and sends a little signal to the needle on your dash well if you look clean in there dude it clean in there it cleaned in there the truth is you know when we originally built these cars I think we always thought that we might convert them to E85 but even if you're not going for E85 right now but you think you might want to in the future you should give yourself enough Headroom with your parts which will mean spending a little bit more money up front but then you don't have to spend it again consider the future of the car and build it appropriately the part of our fuel pump upgrade setup what we need to do is basically Pass power and ground through this lid normally from the factory that goes through this connector but that's for like a factory size fuel pump with our Hellcat pump and the amount of power that it draws we can very easily burn these wires or this connector and then you don't have fuel anymore so what we need to do is add these two studs to this lid these will become our power and ground and they'll seal up with these nice little washers that'll allow us to feed our new big Hellcat fuel pump with all the power it needs wants and craves oh yeah nice fit how much gasoline oh I am out of my mind right now dude the wiring studs that we put here in the lid I thought I would just be fine you know with where I put them but they're really close to touching the edge of the tank and I don't think they touch right now but I really don't want to risk it because if the stud that's getting power touches this gas tank it's going to short out I just want to make sure that we don't explode what I think I'm gonna do is probably just use a file and move this Edge back a little bit and just give myself a little piece of mind I don't want anybody to explode welcome back to James's Lube corner you're gonna be really careful because real pain if you blow your o-ring so you gotta use lots of lube James did a really good job of getting the intake manifold and all the fueling components ready to put on the car we've got all our new and lines here so let's slap this thing on huh how hard could it be how does this go oh I forgot the gaskets this is cramp space before I put the rest of the hardware in I'm just going to kind of go around with fine-tooth comb make sure no hoses are pinched make sure nothing's out of place out of whack just you know make sure everything's in its home home is where the heart is a bunch of going on Under This Hood yeah just remember cars of pain because of paint all right all our fueling upgrades are installed and it's time to see if this thing will run I hope it starts it should I think okay fuel pump's working I can hear it I didn't explode so that's good yeah all right battery dead yeah what's going on I guess all right you ready baby here we go sounded odd foreign we are out here at yimi sport up in Valencia to get the cars tuned on E85 originally the cars made what Justin 224 horsepower bone stock and now low car makes 325 horsepower High car makes 405 horsepower and we're going to see a little bit of a boost here today hopefully safely what do you think low car is going to make first I'm also going to play it a little safe I'm hoping for 375 I think that's going to be a ton of power in that little car over here though job and James did so many awesome mods to this thing I'm hoping to see like 500 horsepower I think that'd be amazing let's see what we can do let's get in that Dino room let's get started okay so Justin I guessed 375 horsepower so did I okay so let's look oh wow oh my God I did not expect that at all oh yeah okay dude it pulls like it's like a Taffy maker so before we put it on corn how much power did this car make it's making 325 horsepower and then after how much does it make 393. that is almost seven almost seven yeah for an afternoon of work that is more effective than most things you could do to a car all right get any five is sick yeah I love it finally the scientist did something right after 85 High car made 474 horsepower almost 500 horsepower almost 69. nice horsepower difference and apparently the ceiling is not even close to being touched I mean we're gonna start breaking stuff before we run out of power this transmission those days are numbers very very numbers but again I think we'll put something cool in it go ahead and hit the Subscribe button so you don't miss us putting a very expensive Transmission in this old dumb car