fuel pickups & filters?

[dzorde at aesprodata.com.au]

     You bet ya. I use the standard tank and pick-up running to a 5L surge 
     tank, this uses a standard electric pump with a pre-filter (before 
     pump).  The FI pump then runs from the surge tank into the FI filter 
     and on to the engine.
     
     I don't think FI pumps like filters before them since they are push 
     type pumps and don't like the restricted inputs.  I initially had a 
     standard filter before the FI pump (didn't use a surge tank back then 
     and wanted to protect the pump from crap), and boy oh boy did the FI 
     pump sound like it was working hard, and it got very hot.
     
     Dan        dzorde at aesprodata.com.au


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Subject: fuel pickups & filters?
Author:  diy_efi at coulomb.eng.ohio-state.edu at INTERNET
Date:    6/20/96 10:46 AM


This is "just barely" diy-efi related...
     
Can anyone recommend a source for an in-tank fuel pickup suitable for EFI 
use? I need something that would fit at the end of a 3/8"ID fuel line in 
the tank. I'd like to find something with a screen on it to keep out the 
larger pieces of garbage that might somehow find their way into my tank. 
Similarly, the typical Bosch FI setup has the fuel filter after the pump. 
Does anyone out there run a "pre-filter" before the pump to protect it?
     
Thanks,
Mark Reichert
markr at eye.com