Walbro Corporation is a manufacturing company that specializes in small engine carburetion and supplier of auto parts. Otherwise, Walbro carburetors are commonly used on line-trimmers, leaf blowers, chain-saws, and edgers. Walbro was founded by Walter E. Walpole in November 1950. A product typically found in the automotive world of fuel injection

Fuel injection

Fuel injection is a system for admitting fuel into an internal combustion engine. It has become the primary fuel delivery system used in automotive petrol engines, having almost completely replaced carburetors in the late 1980s....

, being used by tuners

Car tuning

Car tuning is both an industry and a hobby, in which an automobile is modified in order to improve its performance, handling and appearance. As most vehicles leave the factory set up for average driver expectations and average conditions, tuning has become a way to personalize the characteristics...

, are the Walbro Fuel Pumps, with the most common being the Walbro 255. TI Automotive purchased Walbro's automotive fuel pump division in approx yr2000, and is the actual manufacturer of all Walbro branded automotive fuel pumps and fuel delivery modules.