I decided to finish off the fuel system in the boot, with the surge tank hooked, 044 and earls inline filter hooked up. I used aluminium tube for the lines as they reasonably cheap to do and after seeing a few setups from some other guys around NS.com I thought i'd give it a shot.
It came up OK. I wasnt completely happy with it as the positions of the ports on my surge tank made it a bit difficult to bend the lines so they were neat. The tubing kinks and flattens extremely easy which made things quit frustrating when trying to get nice 90* bends.
Also connected the fuel lines to the other side of the bulkheads. I like this approach instead of feeding the hoses straight through the boot floor.
So it was time to start it up again, gave it a few cranks and it fired up straight away. Checked around the engine so far no leaks, all is good. So I move on to check the fuel system in the boot all looks good there too!
Then I check engine again and then the boot and can see some liquid just under one of the fittings, yep fuel leak. The line from the feed pump to the surge tank is leaking. I tried tightening it up but made no difference. After a quick touch to the line itself the problem was clear - the flare on the pipe had broken off.
Being 8PM I called it a night.
Been pretty slack taking pictures, will hopefully have some more up soon instead of text only posts :P
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