Javad, others, fuel line question

[Dave Hord]

Well,

Day one is finished.  I thought (originally) that this would be a one day
project...but, alas, I was WAY off!

Woke up, went to the store.  The Aeroquip stuff is REALLY expensive in Canada.
One banjo fitting was $41.90 Canadian.  Given my budget of $200 for this
project, I began to rethink things.  The first thing I bought was 14ft of Steel
hydraulic tubing.  The steel became teh lines for the interior of the car. The
wall thickness is .049", however, so it was NOT easy to work with.  It did,
however, surpass the rally regs of 200psi minimum, which their aluminum tubing
did not.

For the engine compartment I ended up going with another aeroquip line, a
rubber line inside and out, but with a steel braid in the middle. It met my
needs of being a) affordable and b) meeting regulations...however, I must admit
I'm a little wary of the rubber interior. I have visions of something bad being
sucked into the Fuel distributor.

I started the project by figuring out WHERE the heck I was going to pass the
lines through the firewall.  I ended up choosing almost directly in front of
the passanger seat, as it was clear on both sides.  In order to ensure
the 'safety' of the lines I'll need to build a Navi' footrest right after the
cage goes in (here we go again...more $$). The steel lines sit on the side of
the tranny tunnel all the way to where the back seat once existed. They then
exit below.

Bending the steel lines was not a whole lot of fun...and, to be honest, it
looks pretty darn ugly.  I covered the lines (at Marc's suggestion) with
plastic tubing...using a rust-check like product as a lubricant between the
two.

Tomorrow I will hook up front and rear and see how it does.  But first, a few
questions:

1) On the CIS metering head...which line is the Feed, and which one is the
return.  I can't seem to find that particular bentley page (mines a collection
of, er, photocopies)
2) I have a hunch it's going to be a REAL pain to bend a 90deg into the end of
the line (at the back of the car).  I'm curious as to whether or not I can just
flare the end a bit, slide on some high-pressure rubber line, and join the
lines that way?


At this point, I'm not happy with the steel lines in the car...essentially they
look terrible and that's going to be a reflection on the 'prepardness' of the
entire car.  For now I'm going to keep them, but the plan now is to use the
same rubber lines from the engine compartment throughout the entire vehicle.

Thoughts? Answers? flames? (no flames please...I'm working with Fuel here)

-Dave


--------------------------------------------------
89 90q  300km+ Rally Conversion in High Gear...
(sometimes it helps to hit trees??)
http://home.the-wire.com/~spokes