You know, I was at the nationals get together in Indiana in 02 and there was a bosch Engineer there to describe the new HPCR system and such, I described to him all the problems of the VP-44 with the failure of lift pumps and such, some people were going very high pressures like 30 and 40 psi...
He said the VP-44 would fail at high pressures. The max safe pressure for the VP-44 is 15 PSI. not much more than that. The Pump is able to go down to negative PSI but he admitted that negative PSI would damage it.
So I asked if a system that maintained 11-15 PSI all the time no matter what, would that be good?? He said yes.....
I have a 7# Pusher to the stock pump to a regulator that returns fuel to the filter before the pusher, and I maintain 11-15 PSI no matter what even at WOT and I have 450 HP at the wheels. ... ... So think twice on making a pump do more than it needs to do.