The Essence of life...

 Essence being gasoline, and life being reanimation...

Lots of progress this week.  I drove all over town to get a 5/16" inverted flare union, with most parts shops being out of stock except for Car Quest, so that completed the circuit from the main lines to the braided pigtail at the CIS accumulator...

But once the piece was made from that junction to the pigtail, I policed up all the 5/16" brake line and took the screw ends off and tossed them into one of my parts bins, only to find out I bought a 6 pack of 5/16" flare unions...for f^ck sakes, my memory sux!

The new lines are 5/16" mild steel brake lines.  There's a bunch of different flares used throughout, inverted flares at the brass union under the pump, metric bubble where the line goes into the accumulator pigtail, 6AN tube sleeves just behind the firewall...

As it was impossible to have a hard line from the tank across the bottom, go up at the firewall and cross to the left shock tower.  The hard lines go up the firewall to 90s just under the intake...

Where it switches to beauty 6AN braided hose across the firewall to the left tower...

So once it was all together, I plugged in my homemade fuel pump relay bypass switch and pulled the trigger...yes every one of those connections leaked!  I snugged them all up, and pulled the trigger again. 80 PSI!  Nice!  Good pump!  So I grabbed the best looking CIS distributor box aesthetically and cobbled up the best looking braided lines and injectors, put on the new filter and inserted the injectors in 4 of the ex-wife's wine glasses.  Take a look for yourself, I think the volume/min is within specs!  Not sure I ever had a mk1 get this close, (until now!)

So off to order some new viton injector seals, and maybe we can make some noise in the coming weeks!!