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RE: Don't ignore the smell of gas...

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Subject: RE: Don't ignore the smell of gas...
From: Dean Dashwood <DDashwood@softwright.co.uk>
Date: Thu, 22 Apr 1999 09:20:54 +0100
Mine has always been routed round the back of the engine - I assumed
this was stock, because it seems so much more logical than any other
way!  But come to think of it, this could explain why the bits that came
in the fuel pipe kit I recently bought didn't quite match the bits I had
on the car......


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>From:  Ted Schumacher[SMTP:tedtsimx@q1.net]
>Sent:  22 April 1999 00:31
>To:    Craig Smith
>Cc:    'Jay Heaman'; Joe Whalley; Spitfire List
>Subject:       Re: Don't ignore the smell of gas...
>
>
>
>if you want to route the line the mnost effective way, run it behind the
>valve cover.  the fuel line is kept away from the heat of the engine,
>not near any moving parts and is a shorter "run" of line. if you have
>twin carbs, you just switch the float bowl domes fronmt to back and feed
>into the rear then forward. standard practice on race versions and
>equally applicable to street cars. ted 
>-- 
>Ted Schumacher 
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