Reply to "Electric fuel pump?"

Here's my experience of an electric fuel pump.
My Pantera already had a Holley red fitted when I bought the car 12 years ago (with no pressure regulator) and is one of the very few things I haven't replaced. It's hard to replace something that is working fine.
I totally agree with George in that a mechanical pump is simple, quite, and less likely to fail. However, if your Pantera has the habit of evaporating the fuel from it's float bowls like mine does (I don't run a valley pan) you have to crank your engine over until they are full before it will start.
This is not cool when your have a small audience waiting to hear you drive off!

I like the idea of the electric pump filling the fuel bowls first and then having the engine fire straight away. I decided to mount the pump as far away from my ear as I could. So I mounted it with rubber mounts (the type that have a round piece of rubber with a screw thread coming out of each end) on the chassis leg above where an American car would mount it's rear bumper shock absorber inside the rear wheel house. I then ran the fuel lines on top of the chassis leg back to the tank. It works fine, but I can still hear it from the drivers seat. I like loud Pantera's. My car has GR3 exhausts so it's loud at 112 DB, but when I am on a long journey, I like to close the windows and have all the sound go out the back. The sound of the pump is unwanted sound.
The safety switch is a great idea. I will have to look into that.

Johnny