What's people's views on fia oil pumps as I brought one new to build my engine originally, but I have been told to use a genuine ford one but the price from ford is a little expensive

 

ford are better but still a time bomb waiting to happen , people say only if your reving past 7000 but i heard of them breaking with much less revs.
for the reliability , cost , and piece of mind i would consider getting dan lacey (opi) oil pump kit , its like a dry sump oil pump in looks but it just replaces the original oil pump and is driven by a belt off the crank pulley
or if you have enough cash then full dry sump also from opi

cheers paul

 

What sort of prices will they work out?

 

Burton power sell dans (opi) oil pump kits.think they come in at around 1200 but worth every penny if it saves a 5k engine from loosing oil pressure

 

At what sort of power do the oil pumps become a danger point? My zt is st170 based and was rolling roaded at 293bhp at the flywheel.

 

I think the oil pump starts to have issues at around 350-400bhp, I kept the standard pump on my old mk2 fiesta build and that was running around 350bhp with no problems, took the pump apart when I changed to dry sump and it was still perfect inside, loads of people keep the pump for builds over 450 and they have been ok,just down to luck really