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So we'll see this at the Beach Hop next year?
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Everything I look at, it seems. It kept cutting out while getting it onto the trailer down in Auckland, but it had been in a container for six months and the petrol gauge hardly moved so it was almost dry and stale petrol. I put $40 of 95 octane in the tank while it was on the trailer on the way back home but it wouldn't start and the electric fuel pump was making a nasty racket and it only took a few attempts to flatten the battery. Pushed it off the trailer with neighbours help and left it on the road overnight. We're at the end of a cul-de-sac so it survived ok. I was up early with a torch pulling the battery to put it on charge back up at the house and return the hired ute and trailer.Good to see you have your priorities in order. That is one very tidy looking car from the outside and from underneath. What needs doing to it?
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I wish. No, I think it will be 2 to 3 years before I get it road legal. The way things are going I will be doing well if to have a shed around it before the new year.So we'll see this at the Beach Hop next year?
Thanks for the offer immortality, but at 9-14 PSI the Blue box pumps are too strong for my flathead, I believe. I'm not in any hurry and am going to have to a lot more researching but I'm already thinking this motor may be over-carbed. This one is a replacement, not the Holley that was on the engine when it was rebuilt 20 or so years ago. A standard single/double carb 221 - 239 cu. inch flathead with standard cam would require fuel pressure to be limited to about 2.5-3 lbs. This 4 barrel Holley is designed to run at 6.5 PSI. My pump runs at maximum 7 PSI so suits the carby. I may end up buying a Holley White Box 97 GPH Electric Fuel Pump with identical specifications that's almost 1/3 the price and the only difference is that is doesn't have repair kits available. Anyway, that's all for later. Mine has an aftermarket cam of some sort that I will have to look into and I will also have to get the sump off at some time and check whether it still has a 4" Mercury crankshaft in it and is 275.7 cu. inch or if it has a standard crank 3 3/4" and is only 258.5 cu. inch. One of the receipts I have for a new 42-48 crankshaft core (not ground) 3 3/4" stroke, which worries me as the car was advertised as being 275 cu. inches.Those pumps are known for been noisy. Definitely need to be rubber mounted. The other issue is the dead head fuel system design. At idle or cruising situations the fuel pump is working against the carb needle/seat with fuel flow at almost nothing. They do have a little internal bypass but that fuel just ends up circulating inside the pump which creates a lot of heat. One way to help quieten them down is to create a return style fuel system so the pump has constant flow and the regulator controls the pressure. Even if you did it LS style with the regulator by the pump/tank it should be an improvement.
If you really get stuck, I think I still have a Holley blue pump in the garage, in the box new I'd be happy to let go for a reasonable price.