Pushrod kings MK1 Escort race car

[Pushrod King]

Re: Pushrod kings MK1 Escort race car

Those new mods have transformed the can Nick. That was about the best I've seen you drive if I may be so bold... Good work chap.

Thanks Jon I really enjoyed myself but what's a can got to do with it? I drive a car Any chance of a freebie added on here? Did you get any of my pass on Gary Chappell? Or any more of me and the 20v turbo'ed Seat Ibiza?

[Pushrod King]

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no reason you cant make one i have in the past

you will also need a second fuel pump,

the very bottom pipe feeds your main fuel pump the one thats feeds your carbs

the pipe above would be the return from your engine bay if you have one,

the next pipe up is the feed from the tank via your new additional fuel pump,

finally the top pipe is a return to your tank

if your main tank doesnt have a return like most, use the breather as a return and drill and tap the filler cap to take a breather pipe

effectively what you now have is a small fuel tank to feed the engine topped up via the extra pump, most contain a litre or do of fuel which is enough to see you through the longest periods of fuel surge your ever encounter

HMM,seems like a lot of work and added weight,wouldn't a decent fuel tank do the job?

[Graham]

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its only a couple of kilos of weight and the best way to do it by far

[david_white]

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I have the swirl pot you showed on the last page and it is a lovely bit of kit, well worth it. And the weight added is nominal

[Pushrod King]

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Hmm,decisions,decisions,I'm being told one thing by my main man (professional race car builder) who I 100% believe in and another thing by Graham who I also trust 100%. I've given the carbs a once over and found that the float level is way too big on one of them which could cause the problems that I've got as too large a gap won't allow enough petrol into the float chamber in the 1st place,the only problem that I now have is working out how the hell it was set wrong in the 1st placeI'm going to give the reset float levels along with new banjos and pipe work a try and if that doesn't work I'll go down the route of fitting a swirl pot

[Graham]

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the only ithing i would add nick is inmy view the carb problem alone cant be that severe as the car worked ok over sprint distances and runs ok on a rolling road

[Pushrod King]

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the only ithing i would add nick is inmy view the carb problem alone cant be that severe as the car worked ok over sprint distances and runs ok on a rolling road

I occasionally had problems whilst sprinting too,my thinking is that with the float level not allowing a full float chamber there's nothing in reserve should there be any surge as a full chamber will allow approximately 30 seconds running before running out,that's more than 1/2 a lap of brands at the pace that I was travelling on Sunday so should of been enough time to keep the chambers topped up.

[Retromotorsport]

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Nick, just looked through your thread and not one pic of your boot / tank area .. so i'll assume that you have a rally style tank and fuel tank stand, this is raised above the level of the boot floor, now what you do cheaply is get something to stick under the tank to raise it a bit more, and get a fugging huge fuel filter, diesel or something like that, plumb that into the line from your tank to the pump, you now have a small tank thats fed from the main tank, for a couple of quid you'll find out if its fuel surge.

[Pushrod King]

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Gary,I've got a square 4.5 gallon alloy tank mounted on the boot floor.I have thought of tilting it forwards as that's where the pick up is.

Nick, just looked through your thread and not one pic of your boot / tank area .. so i'll assume that you have a rally style tank and fuel tank stand, this is raised above the level of the boot floor, now what you do cheaply is get something to stick under the tank to raise it a bit more, and get a fugging huge fuel filter, diesel or something like that, plumb that into the line from your tank to the pump, you now have a small tank thats fed from the main tank, for a couple of quid you'll find out if its fuel surge.

[Retromotorsport]

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i'd still fit a large filter ... or get the the fab gut to open the tank, fit a sheet inside with a 2" swaged down hole in the center inside .. about an inch above the bottom, and get him to fit an outlet in the inch space .. hate using push pumps as vacumn pumps..they are not designed to lift

[Ken Welch]

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Not that I know much about Fords but are you sure this problem is fuel surge. I run the same foam filled fuel tank with a red top pump, no filters and a max of 10 lts of fuel and don't get fuel surge.

[andypipe]

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It may be a silly question, but how much fuel do you put in the car

[Pushrod King]

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It may be a silly question, but how much fuel do you put in the car

I brim it to start with and it takes about 2 gallons to refill after a race

[SnappyRacers]

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PM sent Nick

[Pushrod King]

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Well another week-ends racing over with no real dramas
Apart from only completing two laps in qualifying (due to a broken throttle cable)which gave me 3rd to last spot (25th)on the grid for the 1st race.Race 1: A dry start so we all went out on slicks,made up a couple of places in the 1st 4 laps and then the safety car came out due to a three wheeled Skyline parked at the bottom of paddock hill the safety car was out for 4 laps by which time it was pissing down on the restart I made up three places,overtaking a scooby,a mini,and cossie,for some reason I was able to keep up a good pace and actually passed another four cars to finish 13th overall and 3rd in class DSo for todays' race I lined up in 13th spot ahead of some much quicker cars/drivers,I got beaten by the cossie of Peter Taylor and 20V turbo'd Seat Ibiza of Nick Young into the 1st corner but held my own against the other faster cars into Druids but tangled (he turned in too early)with Paul Goddard in his bda powered zakspeed replica mk1 which ended up with him sideways across the track in front of me which let the rest of the field get away so I spent a few laps getting back on terms with the little pack that was ahead,managing to catch and pass the silver Mini of Steven King setting a fastest lap time of 55.5 secs but unfortunately he managed to get the place back once we were caught and lapped by the leaders (only three of them lapped me),I ended up finishing 15th overall and 3rd in class D and sustained a little "kiss" dent on the front wing in the process!! I'm happy to say that the misfire has now gone. Roll on the next round on the 10th of May.