Today was a great day for working on the car, not a whole lot of heat and enough air flow through the shop to make it quite enjoyable.
To start off with I pulled the fuel pump carrier and return line carrier to see what the story was.
The Blue is the Fuel Pump and the White is the Return.
The blue one is the fuel pump obviously and the white one is the return.
I started with the fuel pump carrier:
The fuel pump carrier would turn out to be the easier one of the two today...
drilled a 1/2" hole which was just about perfect for the -6 AN fitting
The Finished Product
I didn’t post much info on the Bulkhead stuff. mainly because I ordered some of the wrong fittings which I need to grab on Tuesday when places open back up.
My idea will work, and work well. I am not going to use epoxy etc. the bulkhead fittings make it so that simple silacone sealant should be all that is needed.
Instead of the 90 degree fittings I should have gotten straight and then a 90 degree hose end.
I will get back to working on the in tank part as soon as I have the right fittings. I’ll do a complete DIY as well.
After I worked on the fuel pump carrier and realized that I needed to by some new fittings I moved on to the pumbing of the hard lines. I bought a tubing bender which I used on the 90 degree bends but otherwise was useless…
First off, the vette Filter/FPR fits VERY well in the stock filter location, I just swapped the bracket around and turned the assembly so it fit my needs. The ground strap could be longer but it works as is.
Fits GREAT! I'm going to make an Aluminum Skid, the OEM piece has seen better days.
Then I started running the hardline.
The starting of routing the hardline
I started with the rear part of the hard line. I decided to stick with the OEM routing of the lines. If I had to do it again I would drop the tank all the way down and run the hardline up to the drivers side inspection port. I may do that if I get bored sometime.
90 Degree bend going to the Fuel Tank
Both line run to the Vette Filter/FPR
Then I worked on making the flex lines for both the feed and the return. I made them a good bit longer since I cannot work on the lines in their final place, the hard line must be loose from the car in order for me to access the fittings.
It's a very tight fit!
Here’s a few more shots of the hoses:
Fuel line from the FPR to the fuel rail, Marshall Instruments Pressure Gauge.
I love these lines!!
All of that work done today to just replace these simple lines:
The original fuel lines I replaced.
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