The 72 Demon Follies....
So we had a good time at the track last Saturday and on Sunday, I put the street tires and mufflers on it getting it ready to take to The Nats this weekend. Thought well let's take it to a local show since it's in its street trim. Drove it to the gas station and back home as I forgot my glasses (about a 3 mile trip). Got the glasses and headed out. Pulled out of my street and went about 50 yards and...silence...engine dies. I see no fuel pressure on the gage and don't hear the pump running. Great!! Fortunately the car coasted another 50 yards or so and I got it pulled partially into a little elec substation lot. Dead. Relay clicks but pump doesn't do anything.
So my wife stayed with the car and I hoofed it home to get the truck and trailer. Drug the car up onto the trailer with my manual(!) winch...lots of cranking that thing for sure!!
Came home, checked everything, voltage to pump, etc, etc. Pump is dead. MagnaFuel Quickstar 275. The pump died on me last August at the Woodward Dream Cruise but I somehow got it to restart and limped the car home. MagnaFuel was great about it - warranty if you pay for shipping and the parts. So for $70, they rebuilt it with everything new except for the housing. Guess it lasted about 11 months and stranded me good. Well, at least I was close to home. So no more playing with that pump for me.
Got on the Summit site and ordered up an overnight shipment of some braided line, fittings, etc and an Aeromotive pump. At least it is red like the car...haha. Of course, it doesn't mount the same and the lines to/from it are not in the right place and the trunk floor needed some trimming. So some fab (hack?) work later, the new pump was up and running last night. I don't like the mounting bracket they provide as it essentially just squeezes the motor housing to hang onto it but hopefully it will be fine for this weekend. I used some rubber straps under the mounting bracket where it attaches to the trunk floor. I will say it is quieter than the old pump but likely due to some isolation work I did on the metal fuel line leaving the pump.
Now we'll see how this pump does. I know they all seem to have some infant mortality failures so I'm hopeful I can escape that!!
I did wax the rear bumper tonight. Figure it will be easier to get handprints off it if I have to push it due to a dead pump again!! So if you see the avatar car at The Nats and it goes dead on me, I'd appreciate some muscle for a push!!
New pump on the left.
New pump peeking into trunk - just like old pump did. Lines/lower part of pump are under trunk floor.
Lord willing, hope to see some of you on Saturday in Columbus!
So we had a good time at the track last Saturday and on Sunday, I put the street tires and mufflers on it getting it ready to take to The Nats this weekend. Thought well let's take it to a local show since it's in its street trim. Drove it to the gas station and back home as I forgot my glasses (about a 3 mile trip). Got the glasses and headed out. Pulled out of my street and went about 50 yards and...silence...engine dies. I see no fuel pressure on the gage and don't hear the pump running. Great!! Fortunately the car coasted another 50 yards or so and I got it pulled partially into a little elec substation lot. Dead. Relay clicks but pump doesn't do anything.
So my wife stayed with the car and I hoofed it home to get the truck and trailer. Drug the car up onto the trailer with my manual(!) winch...lots of cranking that thing for sure!!
Came home, checked everything, voltage to pump, etc, etc. Pump is dead. MagnaFuel Quickstar 275. The pump died on me last August at the Woodward Dream Cruise but I somehow got it to restart and limped the car home. MagnaFuel was great about it - warranty if you pay for shipping and the parts. So for $70, they rebuilt it with everything new except for the housing. Guess it lasted about 11 months and stranded me good. Well, at least I was close to home. So no more playing with that pump for me.
Got on the Summit site and ordered up an overnight shipment of some braided line, fittings, etc and an Aeromotive pump. At least it is red like the car...haha. Of course, it doesn't mount the same and the lines to/from it are not in the right place and the trunk floor needed some trimming. So some fab (hack?) work later, the new pump was up and running last night. I don't like the mounting bracket they provide as it essentially just squeezes the motor housing to hang onto it but hopefully it will be fine for this weekend. I used some rubber straps under the mounting bracket where it attaches to the trunk floor. I will say it is quieter than the old pump but likely due to some isolation work I did on the metal fuel line leaving the pump.
Now we'll see how this pump does. I know they all seem to have some infant mortality failures so I'm hopeful I can escape that!!
I did wax the rear bumper tonight. Figure it will be easier to get handprints off it if I have to push it due to a dead pump again!! So if you see the avatar car at The Nats and it goes dead on me, I'd appreciate some muscle for a push!!
New pump on the left.
New pump peeking into trunk - just like old pump did. Lines/lower part of pump are under trunk floor.
Lord willing, hope to see some of you on Saturday in Columbus!