On Sunday I was taken for a ride in my Cobra.
We'd just made up the 4in. exhaust tips to poke out sideways and a baffle to calm down the megaphone effect of the open exhaust. It's still loud and I'll need some packing material but it looks to be going in the right direction.
Part of the days activities was to be the replacement of the fuel pump - during week my brother had taken the cobra to work (to get the discs machined - but it turns out the new pads have bedded in quite nicely by just driving around) and on the way back the car had started to cut out - displaying fuel shortage symptoms - but would go again after a rest.
- As an aside he tells me that he drove home via Arthurs Seat - just after it had rained - claims it was an 'experience' - cant imagine why
Turns out it was the fuel filter being blocked by lots of fibreglass and dust - which I guess would have been the normal conclusion in the first place if we hadn't had to contend with a bunch of other peripheral failing after the long sit.
Anyway - and I realise that I'm taking a while to get to the point here - when I got the car there were to (hard) fuel lines plumbed in. At present they've just got the standard 'fuel line' of every other carbied car connected at either end, but the hard fuel lines are really thin. Like about the size of a brake line.
Which kinda makes me wonder if there is some sort of fuel line diameter/HP ratio that I'll need to consider.
LoBelly
That's some future...
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