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**Phil** · 24-12-2007, 21:10

Myself and Ant have been doing some good work this week. By 7:30 today (Christmas Eve) We had made enough progress to deserve some pics. Then of course the camera battery ran out

. Here's what I got before it did.

Fuel system: I'd say we're 80% complete on this. God knows how many hours have gone into it so far, but the hard works done I think.

After a quick visit to the metal supermarket, I made a bracket to carry the lift pump on the fuel tank supports I'd made previously. Here it is mounted with the matching aeromotive 10 micron filter, and the -8 lines made up.

The rear firewall is now pretty much complete thanks to some hard work by James, Ant and myself. We're quite pleased with it. All it needs is a new pot of fireproof seam sealer, but it doesn't have any gap bigger than 1mm which is quite a feat if you've ever seen the shape of an S15 boot. Next sesh it'll have the rear firewall bulkhead fittings for the -10 feed and -8 return fitted.

Needs a polish

, and that gap was corrected after the photo

.

The rear fuel install is almost there too. I've even made a massive swirl pot. I just don't trust my ally TIG skills enough to not ruin it, so I've got a mobile welder we've used before coming to drop a bag of skill on it, as well as a whole pile of other ally bit's I've fabricated, but not had the courage to weld

Aeromotive UberMegaPump and 100micron filter. Lot's more braided hosing to come

Then we get to the front, and this is where the camera died. It's a shame as this pic makes it look a bit of a spagheti mess. I'm actually pretty proud of myself, as I've never done an Aeromotive fitting before.

What you can see is a -10 bulkhead fitting, into a Yblock adapter. I wanted -10 in, and 2 -8 out, unfortunately they didn't have that on the shelf, and they didn't have a -10 in 2x -10 out that I could use reducers on, so I had to source a -10 plug tap from Glasgow, and drill it out.
All went reasonably well, and I even managed to drill and tap the mounting holes to bolt through from the wheelarch to keep it looking cleaner in the engine bay.
Anyway, the Y block goes to to -8 lines, one to the front of the rail and one to the back. then I drill and tapped the rail to accept an M14 to -8 male to male, that goes to the new Turbosmart -8 to -8 Fuel Pressure reg, and back to the -8 bulkhead fitting for the return.

Believe it or not, what you see there is pretty much every hose for the front section of the fuel system. It's just not attached to the fuel rail in the picture. The ally pot is the new powersteering pot.

24-12-2007, 21:10	#18 (permalink)
Phil 7JZGTE Join Date: Jul 2004 Location: Birmingham Posts: 6,895	Myself and Ant have been doing some good work this week. By 7:30 today (Christmas Eve) We had made enough progress to deserve some pics. Then of course the camera battery ran out . Here's what I got before it did. Fuel system: I'd say we're 80% complete on this. God knows how many hours have gone into it so far, but the hard works done I think. After a quick visit to the metal supermarket, I made a bracket to carry the lift pump on the fuel tank supports I'd made previously. Here it is mounted with the matching aeromotive 10 micron filter, and the -8 lines made up. The rear firewall is now pretty much complete thanks to some hard work by James, Ant and myself. We're quite pleased with it. All it needs is a new pot of fireproof seam sealer, but it doesn't have any gap bigger than 1mm which is quite a feat if you've ever seen the shape of an S15 boot. Next sesh it'll have the rear firewall bulkhead fittings for the -10 feed and -8 return fitted. Needs a polish , and that gap was corrected after the photo . The rear fuel install is almost there too. I've even made a massive swirl pot. I just don't trust my ally TIG skills enough to not ruin it, so I've got a mobile welder we've used before coming to drop a bag of skill on it, as well as a whole pile of other ally bit's I've fabricated, but not had the courage to weld Aeromotive UberMegaPump and 100micron filter. Lot's more braided hosing to come Then we get to the front, and this is where the camera died. It's a shame as this pic makes it look a bit of a spagheti mess. I'm actually pretty proud of myself, as I've never done an Aeromotive fitting before. What you can see is a -10 bulkhead fitting, into a Yblock adapter. I wanted -10 in, and 2 -8 out, unfortunately they didn't have that on the shelf, and they didn't have a -10 in 2x -10 out that I could use reducers on, so I had to source a -10 plug tap from Glasgow, and drill it out. All went reasonably well, and I even managed to drill and tap the mounting holes to bolt through from the wheelarch to keep it looking cleaner in the engine bay. Anyway, the Y block goes to to -8 lines, one to the front of the rail and one to the back. then I drill and tapped the rail to accept an M14 to -8 male to male, that goes to the new Turbosmart -8 to -8 Fuel Pressure reg, and back to the -8 bulkhead fitting for the return. Believe it or not, what you see there is pretty much every hose for the front section of the fuel system. It's just not attached to the fuel rail in the picture. The ally pot is the new powersteering pot.