Friday, January 18, 2008

Back to the GT6 - fuel system

After Christmas in East Anglia and a few days spent volunteering at the Cambridge Museum of Technology, it was all too quickly back to Wales and work.
The 2000 saloon is keeping up it's steady good work, though it could do with a bit more body work being tidied up, though that is not gone to happen until the weather dries up a bit.

Once the GT6 comes back one of the first jobs that will need to be done is to plumb in the fuel system. I have already done the main fuel line from the fuel tank to the metering unit via the fuel filter and pump, but the part which needs some careful consideration is how to return excess fuel back into the fuel tank.
Obviously I am not keen on the idea of welding anywhere near the tank, so instead I have machined up a couple of plates to sandwich the fuel tank. The lower plate will be passed into the fuel tank, via the hole cut for the pipes, having been drilled and tapped to accept four securing bolts. While the upper plate will have clearance holes cut for the mounting bolts and two holes cut for the returning pipes.
I am not quite sure at the moment how best to run the pipes back into the tank, ideally there would be a quite tight 90 degree elbow on the top, as there is not much height clearance between the top of the tank and the cover boards.
The tank will not be cut until the car is back though, having spent time sealing this tank I don't want to destroy it through rushing.

Decided a couple of weeks to give the TSSC a go, I have known of them since I brought my Spitfire eleven years ago, but never felt I had the inclination or the spare cash to join in the past. Fortunately they have a meeting local to me, just 25 miles up the A40 and seem to be quite active, with a number of activities planned for this year.