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Ok fellas. I'm at a junction here with the fuel delivery set up. I've got this far off of good research photos and am at a stopping point. I've seen one photo of a fuel rail type set up for dual Hollies but the details are lacking outside of the basic fuel rail. The idea is to plumb a neat and tidy fuel inlet to the back of the rail and route it down behind the engine. This is one of those points where you get a good feeling when you're putting it all together only to feel not-so-sure about it after looking at it for a while. I've used a piece of .062 solder, primed in black and then shot with a coat of chrome alclad for the rail. My only reservation about taking this thing apart to possibly correct this would be damaging all of what I've done with the carburetors and linkage. Gonna have to "stew" on this in thought for a bit...........

I would run a fuel line up from the fuel pump around the distributor and straight in to the rail from the front.
you could maybe fab a nice fuel filter to add detail.

gino

Thanks for the good comments gino!! I'm going to end up putting a fuel block on the back of the intake and running two lines around the back carburetor to each inlet line. Took a bit of thinking but I've got it. With two carburetors I'm stepping back from the traditional methods I normally use for single quad applications.

that makes sense, glad you figured it out !
by the way this build looks way cool , you are doing great work here !
i'll be following this one !
gino

If I did not see your scale mat below this puppy I would swear that I'm looking at the real deal. This just keeps on getting better!

How many times am I allowed to say awesome in the same thread?

I hope you get your issues sorted!

Thanks gino, stik and Stuart
I made two attempts to remove the fuel rail before I had to weigh the cost of going any further. It wouldn't come off so I had to decide if it was worth destroying all the linkage and all by a carburetor coming loose during the removal of the rail. That answer would be not just "No" but "Hell No!". I'll make my way from here and pull this off somehow. I just can't bring myself to risk throwing all that effort away.
I did sand all of the molded in detail from the inner fender wells and washed 'em to get ready for paint.

Now I don't feel bad at all about leaving it as is. Whew!! I found a pic of this which justifies the idea..........



A little detail painting and we're rollin' forward folks!!!!

Well I've got the fuel line installed and routed. I used a pin for chrome fuel line and coated it with some Tamiya Smoke X-19 to give it that true metal look and made a 90 degree banjo fitting to go onto the fuel rail at the carbs. Check it out....



I started on the inner fender wells yesterday by removing all that nasty molded on detail and cleaned it up and painted it.
Before:


And after. (This still needs to cure out so I can polish it up and make it into a mirror finish but you can see the difference so far)

That fuel line looks great - nicely done!

Nice bodywork too - a great improvement!