Home made fuel swirl pot!

Thanks John.......appreciate it........

Initially we want to test the theory that its the fuel startavtion that hits many E30's (Lemons Gods punishment) and nothing more.....since the volcano event, we have a cheapo untested head and funny coloured pistions....a broken fuel level gauge, no rev counter and a speedo that reads 40 all the time its moving......

The swirl pot would be upstream of the main fuel pump......as long as the one in the tank is ignored as a fuel pump, we would be okay in terms of cost then.....

The pipe and connections I am thinking of, would make a really robust, mild pressure vessel, the connections would be really leak tight, threaded and bonded and all hoses, fuel rated and tested......

We have a test and tune session tomorrow and thats it before teh New Orleans adventure......if the palstic version works......then perhaps we can talk to you about a welding visit!

Cheers

Agree.....half of my kicking against CL or Ebay purchase is that people seem to want top dollar for crap, or sell their 'it worked well before the car broke' part for $10 and pay $50 postage!!!

Folgers was the team Captains swirl pot of choice......but I wanted to go more professional but cheap, hence thinking of the 4" plastic pipe and fittings, brass valves and rated hose to please the tech boys!

The in-take pump is a stupid price and is really only there to lift the fuel out of the tank (from within a small dammed area) and deliver it to the door step of the external pump......which fires it to the injectors and even then, most of it returns to the tank anyway.......

I'm keen to fit somethign safe for tomorrow evening and test the car at MSR.....it could be soemthing other than fuel starvation!

Bloody E30's!

Thanks - I'd rather not have one, but I guess an endurance car that suddenly halves its fuel capacity is not very good!

appreciate the advice from you all......id rather make a decent job of it and get it out in the open than hide it away in the car and end up the largest fireball in Bayou!

Hmmmmmm

I guess thats an in tank pump with some sort of pressure relief system in the pump itself....I think the MOPARS are returnless......

If you are going to develop items to make E30's more competative.....perhaps you could also study hypnotism on Lemons judges and reduce the BS penalteis!

yeah but the E30 has the FPR as part of the fuel rail.......id have to think of a way to block that, have a walbro type in tank HP pump but with the FPR in the tank too.......

If I were you I'd just replace the pumps and not mention it to the judges.  Its not like they're going to boroscope your fuel tank (well, until they read this thread).  You can probably get them for less than $180 if you just get the pump instead of the whole assembly. 

Don't mess around with the fuel system.  I've realized that stock fuel systems are actually carefully engineered.  Messing with them inevitably causes the unintended consequences monster to raise its head.

We used an empty propane bottle for our surge tank.  We had to as our car started life carbureted.  Here's a pic I made for someone (the silver tank, not the red one):
http://picasaweb.google.com/lh/photo/z0 … directlink

I had asked about fuel systems for the new car we are building and I was told that if you are going to run the stock fuel system the only mod you can do is remove the fuel fill door on the outside of the car, I would email John Pagel and ask. I was told you will be DQ'ed of you mess with the stock system and do not switch to a fuel cell

good luck!