Tuesday 31 March 2009

Fuel pump

Although slightly out of sync from the build manual, I wanted to get all the back end fuel stuff worked out before installing the engine and the car suddenly became a lot heavier and cumbersome.

The fuel pump (and fuel filter) should bolt to the chassis with rivnuts. Although I'd paid for Westfield to put rivnuts in the chassis, when I came to trial fit the fuel pump there weren't any. Luckily Mike was able to borrow a rivnut tool. I had to do some modifications and bending of the bracket to get the pump into a position where the pipes would clear the end of the suspension bolts. (Ignore the pipe attached. It was just a bit of non-fuel scrap pipe from the donor I used for routing purposes.)


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