return line to gas tank
Jon
Galadar at worldnet.att.net
Sun Oct 25 18:12:37 GMT 1998
Gene,
I was in a local Junkyard the other day, and I saw a possible solution
to your fuel pickup problem. There was a VW Jetta(as I recall) on it's side
(tranny removal) and I was looking at the fuel pump setup on it. It was
similar to a Ford setup with a low pressure pump in the tank going to an
external high pressure pump a few feet away. Between them was a small
"reservour." That way, even if the first pump fails to pick up for a second
or two, the higher pressure pump still has fuel available. The "reserviour"
MAY have been a filter, but it looked AWFULLY big to me - are there square
shaped filters out there? Anyways, hope this helps.
Jon
-----Original Message-----
From: mrvette <mrvette at bellsouth.net>
To: diy_efi at efi332.eng.ohio-state.edu <diy_efi at efi332.eng.ohio-state.edu>
Date: Thursday, October 22, 1998 7:28 AM
Subject: Re: return line to gas tank
>Hate to say so, Shannen, but really no Chevy stove bolt sixes, maybe
One
>225 slant six, but no chevys.....sorry about that....:-)))
>
>
>Im sure you think it ws vapor lock, you were seeing, my only question is
that
>how in hell at ~40 psi DPFI line pressure are you going to boil gasoline
off
>into vapor, and not log since boil off the coolent at ~16 lbs rad cap
>pressure? ture gas is more volitile, but under the circumstances it just
>seems strange....need a chemist someone to compare tables to see...assuming
an
>equal ambient temp for each liguid, just the presure in it's 'vessel' being
>differant....
>
>considering the mechanical ifficulties in modifying the Vette tank for
fuel
>slosh problems, if I can't get an electronic control system to get rid of
the
>return line, I'll just have to live with it, I'd have to cut and reweld
the
>tank, and find out a workable system to boot, that would be trial and
error
>aomost by necessity....I'll leave that one to GM/someone....besides it's my
>lo-fuel warning...:-))) GENE
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