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That sure is nice work. What kind of fuel pumps are shown? Are those check valves in the lines between the cell and the pumps?
 
Thanks for the photo enlarge...while mine's a GT, I can still run the vent line like that....don't have the bulkhead for mounting fuel pumps

Hap, will I really need 2 pumps?
 
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will I really need 2 pumps?

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Only if the first one breaks.

Best--Michael
 
Hap...Somebody sure is runnin a perdy racecar....

(Good thing I'm not W-W with that thing)

Last race I was going around 12 at Mid-O & heard BANG!...

<CRAP> I thought.....Who's that idgit trying ta git around me now.

It was just some guy in a V-Dub....He did get past but I didn't give him any room.

I may never be vintage material.... /ubbthreads/images/graemlins/grin.gif /ubbthreads/images/graemlins/nonod.gif
 
Tony, no you don't need two pumps,alot of guys run two separate pumps on two different switches, these two Carter fuel pumps run together, it was restored back exactly how Huffaker had it, not exactly what I would do with a clean sheet of paper, but original to the cars and it works fine. The two in line pieces coming from the pumps are screen filters, the one in line on the vent is a chack valve. On my Spridgets I normally use a Holley blue pump with thier regulator and inline screen filter between the cell and the pump.

Tony if you don't have the bulkhead, then you will have to create and fab a structure/bracket to mount the pumps off of, Tony, we really need to get you to the race track, so you can look at some other cars /ubbthreads/images/graemlins/smile.gif Every year when I return from the SCCA runoffs I useally have the camera memory card maxed out with pictures and hardly any full car pics or racing pics but useally detailed pictures of different fabrications that people have done to thier race cars, so I have fuel for the creative noodle when I need it /ubbthreads/images/graemlins/smile.gif
 
I need to et out, Hap...I'm gonna get through the GRM & then pull the drivetrain, etc to really make an HSR car...gotta get with John Prather to crew for him!
 
We do them that nice for SCCA as well. Where do you race your Pinto, in the MARRS GTP series?
 
Installed a piece of 1/16"steel over trunk floor - cut through both & mounted 2 straps under where the cell goes - installed the cell & bolted it down so it sits on lip of floor/steel & straps...now I've gotta build the surrounding enclosure...good reason to go to Harbor Freight to buy a metal brake!
 
Hap,
Does Eddie's B still have the bottom of the stock fuel in it? I know some if not all of the Huffaker Bs did.

Glen
 
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We do them that nice for SCCA as well. Where do you race your Pinto, in the MARRS GTP series?

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So far Nelson Ledges, Mid-Ohio, Watkin's Glen & BeaveRun.

We run ITB although we're thinking about going SRF sometime in the future.

Vintage racing looks like a great deal of fun except for the LONG tows......

We get to race more by staying in the SCCA.

(I think vintage entry fees are higher also)
 
Again, though, can I just vent it out the rear of the car?

Yes but not right in front of a rear tire..:smile:<)

There should be a check-valve in the vent line (or deck fitting) so air can come in and displace used gas but gas can't run out the vent line. Run vent line as high as possible then down and rearward.

You still havent mentioned what your going to use the car for.......??

In any kind of timed event or where you wear a helmet you really owe it to yourself to get an ATL or Fuel Safe FIA-FT3 or better rated unit....even tho the rules might not require it.
 
Yep, check valve is there.

Right now its a GRM Challenge car.
 
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Hap,
Does Eddie's B still have the bottom of the stock fuel in it? I know some if not all of the Huffaker Bs did.

Glen

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Glen, never did as far as I know, since this was the last of the single hoop cars built, and Jim Lerch's first big project within the Huffaker's shop, I think a few items were different than the Mueller and Visger cars, one big difference was it had rear tube shocks for example.
 
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