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[freaker]

hello,

i whas thinking of installing an spi engine in hte misses her van. possible it is don't doubt about that but the thing i'm thinking about is the fuel tank ? is it just so simple to cut a hole in the tank of the van to install the fuel pump of an spi tank ?

any idea's suggestions ?



freaker

[Sprocket]

Solder a return line onto the tank, or, 't' into the fuel line off the tank, for the return.

Use an external pump mounted on the subframe.

Then ther is no problem

[freaker]

and may i ask what fuel pump you would suggest ?


freaker

[Major Burkenshaw]

When I did this conversion in my estate I used a metro turbo fuel pump running at 1bar and it worked perfectly well. You can pick them up for about £20 brand new if you look around.

You idealy want to mount the return line as high as possible if your bringing it back to the tank.

EDIT: This is the bloke I got my pump from

Ebay Linky

Edited by Major Burkenshaw, 25 August 2008 - 07:37 PM.

[Major Burkenshaw]

Also, if your using the original 2 clock dash you'll need to solder in a diode to stop the alternator backfeeding the ignition circuit, stopping you from turning the car off caused a bit of headscratching when it first happened to me

[freaker]

can i ask where did you mount youre fuel return line then ?

freaker

[Major Burkenshaw]

This is looking up at the N/S of the fuel tank



Sorry for the bad pic, but you get the idea. I did find through use, that the tank could have done with some more baffels in it

Edited by Major Burkenshaw, 26 August 2008 - 06:01 PM.