innovative everything Was: innovative fuel delivery systems

[Rave Racer]

    Haha.  Ya I remember Carbs.  Didn't we go through this thread recently?
The Yota (no pic) has a carb and the GT6 has dual Stromburgs, although a
Weber conversion is also available and ZSU's are used in some of the older
(how much older?) cars.
    I have to be the king of idiotic "in the field" fixes though,
considering my lack of experience and knowledge.  I recently remounted a
smashed catalityc converter with a 3 inch long peice of pipe, used sheet
metal banding to mount a $15 muffler to my rear bumper, and soldered a
faulty fuel pump relay with a lighter after commandeering the solder second
hand off of a trashed circuit board I happened to have laying in my trunk.
None of these fixes are pretty, but they'll work until I can get real parts.
Coincidentally you'd be amazed the trash that's laying around in my trunks.
    I've also made an oil trap to collect blow by from my PVC valve, wired a
second hazard light switch to the rad fan, rewired the interior fan on one
of my cross country trips in the middle of a blizzard, and oiled the
alternator pully with what was laying in the trunk (trunk contents to the
rescue again) when the bearing seized.  That last one enabled me to make it
to a phone where I lucked out and located an alternator from a junked Passat
within 5 min walk.  What are the odds?  It took me a week and a half to find
the one with the shot bearing.  Here's the one that makes me crazy.  I found
some narrow surgical tubing and routed it into the cabin.  In the engine bay
it was pointed into the induction, and the other end I had a can of Ether.
I like to call it my death starter.  Don't worry, I don't have that car
anymore.
    The things we do for to keep our cars on the road.  I put the "addict"
in Fanatic.  Some crave sex, some video games, some drugs, Me?  If I don't
drive something once every couple of days, I get the shakes.

       Rave Racer
'89 Jetta 1.8L 16V GTX
 http://www.vwot.org/members/Pete.html
'87 Audi 4000 Quattro Sedan
 http://www.audifans.com/registry/view.php?action=viewCar&carid=110
'72 Triumph GT6
 http://motorcities.com/contents/01I3H011116682.html
'83 Toyota Tercel (yoda)     Possible future Sandrail donor...  Maybe

----- Original Message -----
From: Livolsi, Stephane <Stephane.Livolsi at investorsgroup.com>
To: Audi Quattro List <quattro at audifans.com>
Sent: Friday, February 01, 2002 6:41 PM
Subject: innovative fuel delivery systems. was:Engine died on highway -
won't re-start


Now THAT is innovation.  We don't need no steenkin' fuel distributor, eh?.
Reminds me of the good old (bad old) days when I was driving 60's and 70's
American iron.  Fuel pump dies? Hole in fuel lines? Punctured gas tank?
Solution is to rip out the windshield washer tubing and/or various
'unnecessary' vacuum lines.(can't go buy new stuff cuz you are a million
miles from anywhere)  and either:
a) use the windshield washer pump to pump fuel from a bottle (pop, beer,
wine, paint, whatever) sitting on the seat to the carburetor (you do
remember carburetors, eh?)
b) put the bottle on the dash and let gravity do it's thing to get the fuel
to the carb while a helper regulates the flow by pinching the hose.

Oh, my , this brings back memories....

Stephane