fuel lines/pump

[dave watson]

i have a standerd 1 litre trip and i was to put a 2litre 8v in it would i have to put new fuel lines and pump in
chears dave :thumb:

[Damo]

Yes mate you ned to run the plastic lines from a later inj nova and also the furl tank as your 1liter tank only has a feed but the spi has both a feed and return and also allows you to run an intank fuel pump.:thumb:

Damo.

[phazer]

Plastic? They are steel and drop to bits and spew petrol everywhere lol

[Nova_Tek]

Copper or Nylon lines are probably better than steel ones.

[craig green]

Plastic? They are steel and drop to bits and spew petrol everywhere lol

On a GSi/Sri etc yeah. The Spi's & later cars use plastic lines.
Any std GSi type steel pipes will be fooked by now. I've seen plastic used & with brass (anti crush) inserts pushed in the ends aswell. Then theres copper, easily bought from B&Q on a roll, though its not cheap anymore. 8mm OD is it??

Then you will need lengths of rubber injection hose to link up the return lines & pump into the system. The feed pipe from a GM MPi tank to a GM MPi pump is a larger bore again.

[Nova_Tek]

Yeah IIRC 8mm feed hose and 6mm return if I'm not mistaken.

[craig green]

I think on my GSi the tank to pump line was 10 or 12mm ID!! Various Motor factors all across town wondered what the hell I was building. I was only replacing perished old GM stuff.

[phazer]

Genius, so they built the smaller engined cars with better fuel lines than even the last SRi/GSi's? doh!

My parents weren't impressed when mine put a nice crater in the driveway with half a tank of petrol when the line decided to rupture! :roll:

I replaced with 8mm hose (using a small amount of steel line for the joins) with no problems.

[AlexW]

Yer my 1.2 has plastic lines, Still original and mint.

[Nova_Tek]

Same here. Plasitc and mint.

[craig green]

My parents weren't impressed when mine put a nice crater in the driveway with half a tank of petrol when the line decided to rupture! :roll:

I replaced with 8mm hose (using a small amount of steel line for the joins) with no problems.

See. It aint just the bodyshells that rot. Its all of it. lol

[phazer]

See. It aint just the bodyshells that rot. Its all of it. lol

lol

[dave watson]

thanks for the advice lads

[mowgli]

Yeah IIRC 8mm feed hose and 6mm return if I'm not mistaken.

the carb ones were, but for mpi, 8mm feed & return.

you can reuse the old feed pipe as the return, as it is not under pressure

[Nova_Tek]

Looks like I was mistaken :) Thanks for the tip Mowgli :thumb: Have some +rep

[Benn]

My let run std 1.4 sr lines fine.

[Nova_Tek]

Remember you saying so Benn. Just to be on the safest side possible and coz it's fairly inexpensive I'm gonna uprate the feed hose.

[Adam]

Yep, pretty much all petrol vauxhalls use nylon/plastic lines now.

[mowgli]

you can buy bulk rolls of nylon fuel line from decent hgv spares places, and get decent clips & fittings too

[Nova_Tek]

would it be best to use Nylon or copper lines?