Life has got in the way over the past few months so I've hardly touched the car since the end of August. I've been traveling a lot during this time so it's given me plenty of time to read and think about what I want to do and I've made a big decision: I'm going all in on EFI. I know this may be abhorrent to some but it pretty much ticks the boxes for me in terms of my interests so I'm going to give it a go.
First on my list is the fuel system. I've decided to go for an in-tank pump and swirl pot system from Aeromotive (the Phantom 200) - Mike has talked about them before on here and a couple of Youtube channels have used them on 240Z's (Mighty Car Mods and Panchos Garage). It's basically a high pressure pump that sits in a big yellow sponge cylinder that you squeeze into your tank. Obviously, to get it into your tank you have to cut a big hole in it (well, 3 1/4 inch) so it's pretty much non-reversible...
After a couple of rinses with POR15 Cleaner it was time to get cutting and drilling. Locating the pump is a pretty tight squeeze but I could just about fit it into the busy corner of the tank where the fuel intake, sender and the fuel send and return lines are. Here's a shot with just the cylinder and the locating ring installed:
The pump sits in a fairly tidy assembly and you just locate that into the cylinder:
And all bolted up it looks pretty tidy:
I haven't fitted the tank back yet and I'm sure it's going to be an extremely tight squeeze getting that back in. Pancho'sGarage (Youtube) installed the same pump in that position and he managed squeeze it in without modifications to the straps but I guess I'll see how it goes.
Not sure which bit I'll do next. I've got to install a new bigger hard line (8mm) for the return feed so I may do a new send feed while I'm in there but that's going to be a proper job because of getting access.