[alfa] Re: Spica Fuel Pump

[Joe Elliott <jelliott@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

At 4:00 PM +0000 6/22/04, alfa-digest wrote:
> Date: Tue, 22 Jun 2004 10:40:44 -0400 (EDT)
> From: Richard Welty <rwelty@domain.elided>
> Subject: Re: [alfa] Spica Fuel Pump
>
> On Mon, 21 Jun 2004 22:44:38 -0700 "David Bokaie \\(bokaie\\)" 
> <bokaie@domain.elided> wrote:
>
> >  Anyways I was wondering if you agree with my assessment and if so, are there
> >  placed that will rebuild the pump once I take it out.  I am located in the
> >  San Francisco Bay Area.
> i'm not aware of anyone rebuilding the old spica pumps.
>
> i replaced the pump in my 74 gtv with a gtv-6 pump (it involves
> a little rerouting of fuel lines, changing electrical connectors, and
> a modest modifiction to the outlet from the spica pump) and it's
> been working just fine.
>
> IAP has a listing for the old spica pumps in their catalog, but
> it's unclear if they really have them, and the price is more than
> twice what a gtv-6/milano pump costs, so unless you insist
> on an absolutely stock vehicle, it doesn't seem like much of a
> deal.
>
> richard
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Given that his problem was a rich running condition, I think the 
original poster was using "Spica pump" to refer to the injection pump 
itself, not his car's Spica-specific fuel pump.

-Joe
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