Reply to "fuel injecting the cleveland."

I run a tuner-carb but as an experiment a decade ago, I adapted a stock Ford TBI in-tank pump ('87 Ford 1-ton pickup) to our '72-L. Ford pumps are rotary-vane and small enough in OD & length that they drop right into an unaltered fuel tank. They are found on all Ford cars & trucks since about 1980. Just be careful- a TBI pump runs at 8-12 psi (which I regulated down to 7-8 psi for my Holley). It looks identical to a Ford EFI pump which runs at 42-58 psi and CANNOT be regulated down far enough for a carburetor. And once out of a donor car, you cannot tell them apart until they start pumping. There are no tags & stencils would not withstand gasoline.

The advantages are: the pump runs cooler when submerged, and the liquid surrounding it drops the pump noise to almost nothing. Third advantage is, NO plumbing adaptions at the tank. The mechanical 'adaption' is simple. You measure the pump length, then shorten the fuel-out line on the '73 sender by that much plus an inch or so, and attach the pump with good worm clamps & fuel-submersible hose (NOT the same as fuel-resistant hose!) The pump comes with a filter that snaps onto the pump bottom- it sets loosely on the tank bottom.

Electrical adaption means drilling another hole, then add a second stock female spade-lug to the sender top, and extend both wires inside down to the new pump. I scavenged a spade pug ass;y from an Alfa Romeo. I now use the fully functional pump as a primer-pump for the carb, but some day I may find a complete Ford EFI system to play with. Note that this adaption, like a hundred others, was written up in the POCA Newsletter at the time I did it, with photos.