In the process of rebuilding my carbs and gathering all of the parts
together, I was quite shocked to see the cost of a replacement fuel line to
go from the float bowl to the nozzle on the carb. Knowing this had to be
heat resistant, gasoline tolerant, and very flexible to allow the choke to
work right, I started racking my brain for another source of the same type
of line where it may be sold in larger quantity for a reduced price, or
another material to use. Well, I was tinkering around with my gas powered RC
car and noticed the fuel line...extremely flexible and routed right next to
the rather hot cylinder head...but a little too small to fit on the SU's. At
the local hobby shop they had some bigger stuff for the model airplane
engines. Advertised as silicone line, formulated specifically to carry fuel,
resist heat, and resist pinhole leaks. I picked up a package of 3 feet for
$3. The RC engines usually run on a nitro methane mix fuel, so I read
everything looking for warnings etc. to see if it was incompatible with
regular gasoline, but it is just labeled as fuel line with nothing specific
mentioned about the type of fuel. So hopefully this will be a viable
replacement for the fuel line on the SU's. Does anyone have any experience
or knowledge about using this type of line for this application?
Brian
'68 1600
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