The one thing i was putting off for a while was making new fuel lines for the car, but due to the fact the engine was going in this weekend, i had to get it done while there was still space to work underneath the car. The car had 5mm rubber piping as standard, due to the higher compression pump i decided to go with a 6mm steel pipe from front to back. i bought a 4m and 2m length of steel piping and 1m of 6.5mm rubber piping for joints and places where steel could not be used.
Starting at the back at the tank, we had to use a 50cm length of rubber piping out from behind the tank to the underbody of the car, due to space contraints it would have been near impossible to use a steel line as there would have to be many complex bends. A trick i used was to use the origonal rubber piping which had now gone hard as a template and bent the steel pipe according to it using a pipe bender and by hand.
Once the back section was madeup it fitted straight into the origonal mounting brackets, sectioned rubber piping was used to stop the piping from rubbing onto the body and getting worn out. Only the back section was premade off the car, as the front half had to be fed through a hole in the chassis section and bending the pipe would have made it impossible to feed the lenght of piping through.
The front half of the piping was hand bent while fitted to the car, it was real though work as space was limited but eventually we got the pipe moulded to run alog the chassis leg along the crossmember and into the engine bay. Once the engine is the rest of the fuel lines will be bent to meet with the fuel pump and carb.
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