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Old 04-17-2013, 03:37 PM
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Originally Posted by KevinW View Post
looks good Paul, but a 289 would certainly need to drink more juice, and if there was no mechanical pump fitted, why have a flick switch for the elec pumps on the dash?
Should that be 427?...
In Britain at least, racing cars of the period usually had dashboard switches for the fuel pumps. Racing Austin Healeys used twin electric fuel pumps with no mechanical, usually with a toggle switch for each on the dash and the pumps plumbed in parallel, running one at a time. Thus if one failed the other could be flicked on without interrupting forward motion!
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