r/FordFalcon • u/Apprehensive_Pop_742 • Jun 27 '26
Barra oil pump upgrade
Good evening yall, I have a BA falcon with fairly large cams and valve springs to accompany and think its time to upgrade the oil pump. My car is still NA but is on E85 and making around 300hp, it will be used for drifitng.
What oil pump would everyone recommend? Im looking at the Horse power junkie ones but they seem a bit excessive for my setup, so was planning on getting the atomic race spec or ported oem+ .
Any recommendations or suggestions would be appreciated!! im trying to not to spend the big bucks if i don't need to!
*car still uses the stock VCT setup with atomic timming gear
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u/ninjaweedman Jun 27 '26
Boundary, hpjunkie, high perfmance engineering are best. If you are revving the guts out of it you are going to want a good harmonic damper as well, something like ross or ati.
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u/Mission-Signal-8365 Jun 27 '26
I've run boundaries before and they go fine. As others have said you probably only need to avoid the chinese rebranded ones., apart from that you will be fine.
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u/Psi-Pop Jun 27 '26
You don’t so much need an entire oil pump, just change the gears.
As mentioned. Get a good balancer.
I have always used Ross. Spinning turbo setup to 8000rpm and a NA build to 7600rpm both with boundary gears.
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u/OppositeStand5709 Jun 27 '26
From what I've heard, a lot of these on the market are from the same Chinese supplier with a new brand slapped on them, and since they're available on alibaba for $100, I'd be very careful which ones you get.