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Re: Hpfp upgrade
« Reply #150 on: January 30, 2013, 04:02:39 pm »
Hello everyone!

Thanks for the kind words about our fuel pump upgrade.  It is without a doubt one of my favorite products that we offer.  The amount of time and R&D put into it resulted in one of the largest and most complicated efforts we have taken on.

Before I post any pump specific info, I would first like to talk about transparency.  Transparency means to me that as a company and as members of the enthusiast community, you have a responsibility to your clients to present your findings and justify your pricing and design solutions.  The reason APR feels this way is because we are very proud of our products and we are confident that we can put them up against the most severe and stringent automotive engineering principles and philosophies and they will be accepted and in most cases praised by our contemporaries and colleagues as well as our competition.  We also feel we have a responsibility to educate our fellow enthusiasts and answer all questions or concerns about why we have chosen to do what we have done.

That being said, I can't for the life of me understand why other companies would choose to not do this.  There is very little if any secrecy or trade secrets left in the global economy, especially in reference to automotive engineering.  Automotive engineers move between companies very frequently and even though there are non-compete and non-disclosure agreements, if you ask one of them to design a high pressure fuel pump or any other part they have designed before, well, there is no way they can just forget the things they've learned at their previous employers.  Short of listing the suppliers and the specs for the design, you aren't really making it any easier for your competition if you talk about what characteristics you've included in your products.  Hell, they'll just buy one.  If the product isn't released however, sure, secrecy is required so your competition can't come to market before or around the same time you do with a similar product.

Just my 2 pence.

Moving on to the APR pump I would say there are certain key elements that any pump manufacturer needs to include in their product in order to accomplish reliability and hassle free operation:

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I don't think in everything that we learned that you can include less than these parts and accomplish what we do.

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A test rig.  I don't think its possible to insure quality and proper running in of the new parts without one of these.

3. Coatings on the Barrel and Plunger.  I don't think its possible to insure long life and reliable operation if you don't use a particular coating of a specific type that is unable to be recreated less expensively than the one we use.  For example, the coating VW uses on the cam follower is the next closest lower cost coating available to what we use and we are all familiar with the coating problems VW suffers on cam followers.

4. Tolerance between the Barrel and Plunger and manufacturing them as matched sets.  I don't think you can prevent seizures or other issues unless you can recreate a microscopic tolerance between these two parts.  You can't use Plungers and Barrels manufactured and matched separately as they won't be able to consistently repeat the tolerances.  The machine that measures the tolerances of our pumps is so precise that its only found in the aerospace, military and medical industries.  Its more precise than laser measurements and works by blowing a measured amount of air in between the two parts and measures what comes out on the other side in order to give you the distance between the two parts.  This machine costs around 3mil GBP.

There are other finer points regarding the included parts such as the right kind of seals to use, the tensile strength of the new spring, etc. but I won't bore you with those details.

If the company making your HPFP does all of the above, its easy for them to relay this to you with pictures, videos, specs, data, etc.  We won't be the only ones doing the above as there are some more HPFP's coming to market in 2013 from competitors that are made similar to our recipe.  There could be some available today that are made this way but I guess we will never know since the companies are so worried about their "secrets".

Cheers!

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Re: Hpfp upgrade
« Reply #151 on: January 30, 2013, 04:23:51 pm »
and going back through the thread I see some people wish to inquire with more technical questions....

Please feel free to do so.  I won't give you the name of the suppliers but I will explain what those suppliers provide and why.  Somebody mentioned seals....

The seals we use are fluoropolymer spring energized and balanced ring.
« Last Edit: January 30, 2013, 06:05:44 pm by Keith@APR »

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Re: Hpfp upgrade
« Reply #152 on: January 30, 2013, 09:41:28 pm »
Refreshing attitude Keith  :congrats:, my employer has a whole team looking a transparency  :happy2:
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Re: Hpfp upgrade
« Reply #153 on: January 30, 2013, 09:52:12 pm »
Full marks on engaging the debate Keith

Out of professional courtesy Im going to be extremely polite on the matter of the 3 Million GBP machine Keith

Name and model number of the machine please

...I was at one of the most accomplished Machine shops in the North West of England this afternoon supplying Rolls Royce Derby/F1 teams/MESM (an experimental clinical trials company) and running MAZAK 5 axis machines straight out of Japan and there's lots and lots of very raised eyebrows at that figure.

At (an assumed) £50 per pump that's 60,000 pumps even for a global company like APR that's a lot of pumps and a lot of testing I'm assuming you're batch testing and not testing every pump in which case what's the batch rate? In which case every pump doesn't get tested

60,000 pumps taking 45 minutes per pump is 45,000 hours and the average American doing 40 hours per week with 4 weeks leave that's 25 guys in a room assembling pumps all day......that's with no lunch...

in the interests of the aforementioned transparency can we have a little more info on the machine please, I'll happily eat humble pie and apologise publicly for being a doubting Thomas.

Or are they assembled off shore?

the product obviously works......very well....and APR should be applauded for turning out a good bit of kit, I'm hoping that the Sales and Marketing machine standard replies don't overshadow the product



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Re: Hpfp upgrade
« Reply #154 on: January 30, 2013, 10:03:48 pm »
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Re: Hpfp upgrade
« Reply #155 on: January 30, 2013, 11:05:26 pm »
Appreciate the reply Keith, even if I think a lot of that came from the US book of sales jargon. Nobody has questioned the APR pumps quality, I don't think there is any doubting that at all.

I have actually run the Autotech before as well and I had no issues at all but I appreciate that going down that route has its obvious pitfalls. That is why we are really looking forward to testing the LOBA pump ourselves, on our £320k 2005 Volkswagen Golf  :signLOL: (Joking)

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Re: Hpfp upgrade
« Reply #156 on: January 30, 2013, 11:16:22 pm »
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Many thanks for a very informative post, Keith  :happy2:


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Re: Hpfp upgrade
« Reply #157 on: January 30, 2013, 11:32:07 pm »
The only thing missing from this thread so far is Teutonic Tamer.   :evilgrin:

So if your listening TT.   :pomppomp:

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Re: Hpfp upgrade
« Reply #158 on: January 31, 2013, 12:43:18 am »
Is anyone else getting bored of this?

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Re: Hpfp upgrade
« Reply #159 on: January 31, 2013, 01:37:07 am »
Full marks on engaging the debate Keith

Out of professional courtesy Im going to be extremely polite on the matter of the 3 Million GBP machine Keith

Name and model number of the machine please

...I was at one of the most accomplished Machine shops in the North West of England this afternoon supplying Rolls Royce Derby/F1 teams/MESM (an experimental clinical trials company) and running MAZAK 5 axis machines straight out of Japan and there's lots and lots of very raised eyebrows at that figure.

At (an assumed) £50 per pump that's 60,000 pumps even for a global company like APR that's a lot of pumps and a lot of testing I'm assuming you're batch testing and not testing every pump in which case what's the batch rate? In which case every pump doesn't get tested

60,000 pumps taking 45 minutes per pump is 45,000 hours and the average American doing 40 hours per week with 4 weeks leave that's 25 guys in a room assembling pumps all day......that's with no lunch...

in the interests of the aforementioned transparency can we have a little more info on the machine please, I'll happily eat humble pie and apologise publicly for being a doubting Thomas.

Or are they assembled off shore?

the product obviously works......very well....and APR should be applauded for turning out a good bit of kit, I'm hoping that the Sales and Marketing machine standard replies don't overshadow the product




This is brilliant...

well and trully caught out APR.

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Re: Hpfp upgrade
« Reply #160 on: January 31, 2013, 02:07:40 am »
Like I said, Loba always reply promptly to any questions and usually answer every one of them.

I'll hopefully be buying something off them this year and I may even change my pump to the Loba one if a little more info can be squeezed.

Great thread though guys.

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Re: Hpfp upgrade
« Reply #161 on: January 31, 2013, 06:47:00 am »
I must say that APR support sucks. Im two times write them email and never receive any response. When Im contact one of their dealer(Tom from APTuning) on other forum Im imediately receive response but he can't answer me on my questions and redirect me directly to APR(Where I didn't get answers)... This has been main reason why I didn't buy APR downpipe and Im buy B&B downpipe(Which is same), why didn't buy APR HPFP and Im take Autotech internals+new OEM HPFP and why I didn't make APR ECU&DSG Stage 2+ remap and I will go REVO ECU&DSG Stage2+ remap...
For me is customer support main thing and APR's one is very bad...

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Re: Hpfp upgrade
« Reply #162 on: January 31, 2013, 10:03:34 am »
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Last year I needed an aftermarket HPFP to cure my relatively minor fuelling issues so I took JKM's advice and steered clear of the Autotech internals and bought an APR. There wasn't a Loba choice at the time but as they are so reluctant to say how their pump is different or supposedly the best, I would only have bought a Loba if JKM had advised me to - JKM would have told me why the Loba was better in their opinion - That's if they had the opportunity to form an opinion but Loba's lips are sealed!

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Re: Hpfp upgrade
« Reply #163 on: January 31, 2013, 12:43:27 pm »
At (an assumed) £50 per pump that's 60,000 pumps even for a global company like APR that's a lot of pumps and a lot of testing I'm assuming you're batch testing and not testing every pump in which case what's the batch rate? In which case every pump doesn't get tested
60,000 pumps taking 45 minutes per pump is 45,000 hours and the average American doing 40 hours per week with 4 weeks leave that's 25 guys in a room assembling pumps all day......that's with no lunch...

I see where you are coming from but I dont see where APR have said that they have recovered costs on this $3mil test rig, so assuming they have and stating that would require 60,000 pumps is irrelevant.  

They might well have only sold 10,000 pumps, 5000 pumps or even 1000 pumps who knows which renders that theory null and void.  Theres alot of assumptions being made there, they might not even be close to recovering that cost, plus if they are only selling minor quantities then testing of each could be possible, but i dont know, thats just an assumption as well  :laugh:

« Last Edit: January 31, 2013, 12:51:24 pm by Janner_Sy »

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Re: Hpfp upgrade
« Reply #164 on: January 31, 2013, 01:10:12 pm »
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Last year I needed an aftermarket HPFP to cure my relatively minor fuelling issues so I took JKM's advice and steered clear of the Autotech internals and bought an APR. There wasn't a Loba choice at the time but as they are so reluctant to say how their pump is different or supposedly the best, I would only have bought a Loba if JKM had advised me to - JKM would have told me why the Loba was better in their opinion - That's if they had the opportunity to form an opinion but Loba's lips are sealed!



I'm sorry but your really starting to get on my tits!

Why would a company who have a product, thought about it them selfs (in terms of the bits they wanted to add or upgrade), done research built the thing etc then come on here and reply to your question of how its different to exact detail spec and items upgraded and replaced.... ?

You seriously have no business brain.

Apr are flavour of the month this time next year someone else will be flavour.

I'm not a huge purchaser of LOBA items i have recently bought the clutch and flywheel and the delivery, service and after care has been amazing, emails are replied to within mins at all times of the day from Simon, my next purchase from them will be a pump based purely on the service and the quality of the items i have previously bought not because everyone "Says" they are amazing.

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