> How can you even suggest that an 'original' Alpine fuel pump - in it's
propah
> place - could be anything less than 'elegant'?
Well, I chose to negate the word "elegant" 'cause I didn't want to use the
word "hokey," though it does more appropriately describes my view of a
nonfunctional fuel pump bolted onto a motor.
> (Where are you hiding your (electrical) 'pacemaker'? - in the trunk
maybe?)
Remember, mine's a Series II, I guess I COULD find room for a fuel pump in
there, but then ther's the big ol' fuel filter, and the regulator . . . If
ever I get the gas tank back in, I'll go lookin' for a serious mounting
position. The outside of the battery box looks inviting right now, but
right now I don't even have the rear axle in there either!
> Just as a BTW - some time back I installed a new (rebuilt) fuel pump in
the
> 'black beauty'. It pumped so damned hard it would keep pumping even
after
> shut-down and eventually pushed gas through the carb gaskets - dripping
on
> hot exhaust manifold. I had to install an adjustable after-market
pressure
> regulator in the line to the carbs to stop this from happening. It
worked.
Another alternative would have been a return line. Tap into the fuel line
just in front of the carbs, and run another fuel line back to the tank. Put
a small-size carburetor jet in the line somewhere to restrict the flow and
you have a continuously circulating <aka "cool"> supply for all those
Webers. Funny, SCCA will let us do that in the street prepared classes,
but they won't let us run a cool can.
Ramon
rs11(at)ElSegundoCA.ncr.com
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