Traveller Swirl Pot Mock Up
Turbo Mini Forums

I cut out a piece of steel so that I could mock up the placement of the swirl pot/pump.
There is probably not enough room as the pump is very close the indent for the jack in the back of the Traveller.

I actually may be able to hang it from the indent with the addition of some flat bar to strengthen the mount points. I still need to find a place for the filter as well.
I think it barely clears the brake hard line and the hand brake cable in the current location.









I know this pump may not work with out some attention to resolving any issues with a high capacity pump.
I am committed to making something work.
Terry

Is there no room behind the wheel well ?

Or mount the black tank sideways and the small pump elsewhere ?

Any pics of theh underside of a car with everything in place ?

And is that small pump going to have sufficient flow ?

9.85 @ 145mph
202mph standing mile
speed didn't kill me, but taxation probably will

Terry,

As I understand it from the earlier thread, you've gone for a combined swirl pot and fuel injection pump because the traveller tank is low and hence a plain fuel injection pump may get starved of feed on corners etc.

But is the combined swirl pot / pump still lower than the tank ???

If it is, I'm not sure of the purpose of the little pump - I agree with Stevie that it looks too small.
If your injection rail regulator is returning to the swirl pot rather than the tank you may be OK with a small feed pump to the swirl pot but, if it is coming from the normal tank outlet, what value does it add over gravity ???

On modern cars (particularly diesels where the high pressure pump is usually somewhere up front on the engine and the tank is well low beneath the floor) it would be called a lift pump and be below, or usually inside, the tank to push fuel up to the inlet of the high pressure pump.

But you have the "lift" pump at the same level as the high pressure pump, hence I'm confused.

Schrödinger's cat - so which one am I ???

that shell looks fantastic

The small SU pump will only feed the surge tank/swirl pot which has its own return to the main tank. The rail returns to the surge/swirl.

The problem with the wagons is that there is not that much room to work around. Both pumps are about mid-level for the Traveller main tank.

The shell was done aby someone who is specialising in Minis here in California.
http://boot2bonnet.com/
Terry

I agree why stick it under the car can't you hide it somwhere in the car away from rust and salt ?

PMSL in california??

Is your car the one with the squashed roof? If so the bloke who restored it has good skills.

Regardless of gravity, any swirl tank must have fuel pumped into it. I would never rely on gravity alone...well, unless it had like a 1"+ pipe and was mounted directly below the tank lol.

The location of the lift pump is of less importance as long as it can suck/self primes. As long as it does this, it will always draw fuel from the main tank and into the swirl tank.

I'm not a fan of returning fuel from the FPR/engine back into any small vessel, as you create a small heating loop which will heat the fuel. But obviously doing so reduces the flow requirements of any lift pump.

Without being more familiar with the van chassis, really hard to say from pics so far.

And as others have said, that thing looks bloody mint !! superb.

9.85 @ 145mph
202mph standing mile
speed didn't kill me, but taxation probably will