spitlist@gte.net wrote:
> Tom,
> OK, I've read your question and some of the replies and at the risk of
> getting flamed by those who have trashed theidea of using copper in fuel
> lines, I know of two cars that have copper lines between the float
> bowls of twin SU's. One of them is mine. I did it because of the very
> severe bend required to fabricate the thing. I have had it in for about
> a year and there appears to be no problem with corrosion or varnish in
> the carbs.
What you have to remember is that this fule line if I am not mistaken it
insulated from the rest of the fule system, even body. There for if
it's an electro-chemical reaction that is taking place to cause varnish
it won't happen. If however you have it bolted to your steel fule tank,
it is a different story. There will be a EMF at work here, when a frend
was testing the fule "catalists" which were made of copper-imobium
alloy, with a steel canister. There was about 0.2 volts accross the
gap.
Having said that I would put a fule filter in, and relish the fact that
a tiny peace of copper was being desolved into the fule, replacing the
lead that they take out.
Oh and those catalist things last for ages, so I would imagin the copper
fule lines would last even longer than the steel. Allowing for rust and
things.
--
James Carpenter
Yellow '79 spit wired by a trained marmot
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