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I am suffering from fuel starvation on my honda so am considering the options to try to eliminate
Basically I see them as
1. fit a swirl pot
2.baffle the fuel tank with trap doors etc
3. fill fuel tank with foam
I am obviously leaning towards swirl pot but looking at them they have 2 intakes? How are they plumbed into the system??
I have 2x pumps on the car 1x standard rover an 1x walbro, I know the swirl pot is fitted between these but beyond that my knowledge is sketchy
flow from rover, return to tank, flow to walbro, return from injector loop. Will need swirl pot above walbro. I've not had any starvation problems, so i wonder what the differences are.
I'm trying to understand why you're getting starvation, as I've run my car pretty low - 150 miles of driving, with a lead foot - and I've also driven it with my foot welded to the floor for a considerable time. Not one hiccup.
The ONLY time I've had rough running, which has been fuel related was after I ran the fuel line down when removing the tank, and the air took a while to purge. I'd imagine the design of the dead head fuel rail doesn't help.
Right I will share what is happening with mine but will try to keep it short!
I have been having problems on my drive where the engine sounds like it's on 3 cylinders! engine runs normally then when I put it on the drive it soon goes dodgy and sometimes cuts out! My drive is on anangle as per photos in previous thread!
I thought hgf etc but no evidence of this!
Anyway eventually I realised that the car only does this if there is half a tank or less in!
Anyway I have been researching this for the last week and found that it's common in elises esp on long left handers......would be long right handers on my car
The last straw was having over a third of a tank of fuel and looking inside the tank through where my smiths sender goes when the car was on the drive and seeing air being sucked into the pump
This is perfect for a blown engine esp at high revs up hill etc
John, what size did you opt for? I have been told minimum of 1 litre for the honda's but most of them seem bigger than this anyway! I have not worked it out but apparently 1 litre should give you about 12 secs reserve
Did you opt for one with 10mm outlets?
I have spoken to one of them about making one to order with same tails as I'm using now
The one I've ordered is approx 1.2 litres (no allowance for wall thickness), and has a mix of 8 and 10mm outlets. As I'm using rubber hose, I've found 8mm hose will fit over 10mm outlets, so I'll just employ a bit of brute force.
