Ramon:
You're getting away over my (engineering) head with talk about Webers etc. - so I will just thow out two random comments -
1. The battery box (exterior) is totally exposed to all the road elements - which can do no good to an electrical fuel pump. (see 2 below)
2. Many years ago I bought the only 'new' car of my lifetime - a 1962 Austin Mini station wagon - which had an electrical fuel pump mounted somewhere near or under the gas tank. In the course of driving through flood conditions in Oregon/California (I mean up to a foot of water on the highway) the sturdy little Mini quit after a few miles. It had to be towed to the next service station. Fortunately the mechanic was quite 'savvy'. He took the fuel pump apart - filed off the breaker points in the pump - and all was well again. The points had rusted or corroded from being doused in California'a finest dew-drops. That's why I mentioned 'in the trunk' rather than outside the body shell.
>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!
>
Re: below see above opening remark--
>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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