I thought that it was about time that I posted some more pictures of build progress:

i) Fuel swirl pot


swirl pot

lift and injection fuel pumps in home made bracket


fuel pump in braket

And in place


fuel pumps in place

Front near side hub


front near side hub

calipers and carriers painted with high temperature paint



painted calipers

be careful with that bosch fuel injection pump, we use those on the machines at work and have three fail in the past 6 months where the outer metal casing is "Crimped" to the plastic inner causing fuel to leak out, now ours were running on diesel so its just a case of cleaning it up but petrol???? not sure id want to take the risk when Facet make a better pump for similar money.

just my 2 penneth.

i have a bosch 044 fuel pump and has been fine for a year and a half and it was second hand to me so they are fine

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Originally posted by tomgregory2000
i have a bosch 044 fuel pump and has been fine for a year and a half and it was second hand to me so they are fine

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its nothing to do with the fuel its metal fatigue that causes the shell to crack.

I know there are lots of good examples running still but like i said ive had three failures in 6 months, i also have another 35 of them that were brought at the same time that are still running, and our machines run 24 hrs a day 7 days a week so potentially alot more than a kit used 6 - 9 months a year.


Quote "i have a bosch 044 fuel pump and has been fine for a year and a half and it was second hand to me so they are fine" - i dont see how you can state that because you have a second hand pump thats ok that "every" one of those pumps manufactured is "fine"

I was just offering my opinion.

looking good, be ready for Stonely then.



or you could get it to Stoneliegh and we could all have a helping blitz on it for you.

Absolutely!! I'm just not sure which year! The current plan for this year is to just come along in the tin top

Looking good Steve - Impressed you're finding the time - Not driven mine in three weeks!!!...

Looking nice and neat, Steve keep up the good work - probably stoneleigh 2011 looks a bit ambitious from your current position, but Clive's idea of 6 of us having a bonding session building your car has its merits - not sure what a mess we'd make of it between us in 2 days, though!!!

- and that fuel pump is the same as mine - I'll be having a regular check on it following Carl's comments....

fuel pump bracket reminds me of my DIY effort on mine....



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Same pump here bracket and ancilliaries pulled off of a vauxhall Cavalier SRI



My first failed, but, in mitigagation someone had already firkled around with it, hence the state of the crimping on the end. My current pump was off of a BMW318 and has bolt on terminals (much happier than with spade terminals).