Monday, March 19, 2012

Fuel Pump Protection Relocation Program - Complete!

Back in September 2011, we relocated the Holley Red Fuel Pump to be below the fuel cell, as called for in the "Previous owner didn't bother to read instruction manual for Holley Red Fuel Pumps" Manual. That's the actual title on the book, yes.

(view from top)

All that open space bothered me; images of detached LeMons Crap bouncing off the tarmac (Dave was hit in the windshield by the National Lampoon's Vacation Station Wagon dog at Summit!) and up into the fuel pump area causing damage seemed so unnecessary... and let's face it, if destruction is to be had it better be in a location that is film-able and far more spectacular than fuel starvation due to dead pump. Yawn!

So, here's the cage we've wrapped around the old 6V MGB Battery Compartment that now contains the fuel pump. It is specifically NOT solid metal/tin/wood/plastic/kerosene-soaked-rags, as the pump tends to get HOT and I wanted to extra soothing cooling of the wind through it's hair, so to speak.

Made out of "Hardware Cloth" which is galvanized steel with 1/4 inch spacing. See, the car's English, so I'm allowed too use inches as a unit of measurement, unlike those other Eurotrash weenies that have to use "metric", whatever the hell that is.

NASCAR called with job offer, I shrugged them off:

View from bottom, or "bum" as the English call it:

Views from the top:




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