[Thor]

Please excuse the silly name, but many years ago, when we had the more clunky precursor to this forum, a member used the pseudonym 'Bellerophon' who was the Greek god who rode 'Pegasus' the winged horse, and hence was the driver of a Bristol car as the cars have Pegasus logos inherited from the Aeroplane Company. I thought that as an 'injunear' I would use the name Thor as one who wields a hammer.

I have considered using a later Chrysler gearbox with lock-up and more gears, but as soon as I get to the point of needing to add electronics, I feel I might as well use a gearbox for which I have the technology. There are makers of other products which claim to be easy to set up for the Ford, but again I'll stick to what we know. There are also controllers for the GM 6-speed, which is also a ZF design licensed out. You and the Nutty Professor are right, the electronic calibration set up of anything with more than 4 gears is extremely involved.

The Sniper can be bought with a fitting kit which includes a pump. The rubber hose is fine and push-on fittings are also perfectly OK at the pressure the thing runs at. It has its own internal pressure regulator valve. I don't remember the pressure just now but it is about 50 p.s.i.

So, yes, you need a swirl pot arrangement. On cars which have internal fuel pumps in the tank it is possible to modify these and do everything inside the tank, but for older cars we use a low-pressure lift pump and a swirl pot. We use the Facet Posi-Flow pumps, but mount it on very wobbly bobbins to insulate the knocking noise from the body. A good value swirl pot can be bought from someone like 'Alloy Racing Fabrications' or similar. The feed from the LP pump and the return from the Sniper go in on the upper tangential ports, the HP pump is fed from the bottom, and the top port just goes back to the tank.

If you're buying rubber hose make sure it is entirely resistant to ethanol. We always used SAE R6 type hose but we have moved on to R9 type as we have more confidence in it. With R6 we have seen the outer rubber perish quite quickly, and although to be fair the inner rubber it still OK, it doesn't seem right to have the braiding exposed.