Kev, I don't know if this will help out, but I have an account at a freight forwarding outfit at Sweetgrass. You could get it shipped there, and I have to go get a few items for myself, so its not a big deal to grab yours as well.

http://www.montanashipping.com/montana_shipping_003.htm

All you pay is GST this way, no brokerage or expensive excessive shipping charges to Canada. Let me know, I have to go down in a couple weeks. I getting stuff to do a back half for myself. 12pt cage/rails/4-link/tubs and narrowed 9in shipped there. I will be ordering more parts down the road soon. Most shops ship free, any where in the lower 48.

Anybody who wants stuff delivered, let me know.

 

yes yes I just pickup up my tranny from the montana shippng outlet in sweetgrass. awesome. thats the only way I'll do crossborderfrom now on I think. Its literally 25 seconds across the border. $20 for them to receive my tranny. and $26 to get it across the border. couldn't touch that with ups or a trucking comany. they've got motorcycles, a two post car hoist, an 8 man jacuzzi in the warehouse.....and anything in between

 

I think I might give glacier a try, I have bought stuff from them before. Been great. I am just kinda put off by Opie, I am sure that his product is great, but his attitude just puts me off. I am a little worried that that the glacier unit wont work with the balancer I have on there

 

Kev buddy, I wouldn't let it bug you too much, as thats just the way Opie is.

Any body know what kinda of pump that it is? Lots of local pump shops here in Alberta, and I sure that you could build one yourself. A pump shop would just have to cross reference or find something similar.

 

its just a gear pump. be easy to cross reference.

but having to scab together the bracket and the rest of the pieces for the full flow bypass might make the kit worth while.

and the kit i saw uses the stock lift pump to startup the engine, with a pressure switch, then the pressure swtich trips it cuts out the stocker, and runs on the mechanical/

 

I don't think it would be a hard set-up to build. The biggest trick would be putting the extra pulley onto the front of the harmonic balancer. They sell tons of different pulleys for superchargers, might have to make an adapter. I'm sure other than that its pretty easy build-up. The trick is how big of pump you want to run and using the right pulley sizes to spin it fast enough. Most of those parts are available locally.

Kev, why aren't you going to use those twin fass pump system you already have. If I remember correctly, you have two 150 gph units.

How you going to set-up you the fuel tank?

 

I just have a single 150 150. Not enough... I could go with a 200 unit, which would probably cover me, but then I am still running a electric unit

 

after installing mine - i realized how much work went into measuring and designing the brackets. it looks like it would be very time consuming and costly to do it via trial & error after initial measurements.

my stock LP has been in the garbage since the day i installed the MITUSA kit. it builds pressure instantly and does not require any priming.

GDP's kit incorporates the stock LP but i see no reason why it couldn't be setup the same way as the MITUSA setup. the MITUSA is a super simple system which has no electronics to fail. even uses the stock p/u tube. the GDP install directions look 10x more complicated than the MITUSA.

 

kevin -
would it be possible to take off the balancer and have one milled to different thickness & diameter (but same weight)??? or is there more to them than meets the eye?

i know Opie makes kits to deal with the aftermarket balancer . . . .

 

Yes Opie makes his to work, but he dosent seem to want to deal with us Canadians anymore,, so I will look elsewhere. I know that Shane from Wicked Diesels was working on one, I will see what he has to say

 

the big stumbling block for most of the mechanical pumps, is the fluidamper.

These pumps are not designed to work with that damper, but I am sure there is a work-around. Perhaps mounting it somewhere other than the lower pan rail, driving off of something other than the balancer... I know, I'm tossing logic to the winds here. Perhaps it'll blow the right way, and land where it needs to be???

You guys all fab things on a regular basis, and guaranteed, you will come up with something, perhaps several things, to make this possible.

good luck

 

the problem with the fluiddampner, AFAIK, is that it is too deep for the drive pulley to extend beyond it. you could make that drive shaft longer, but then you may hit your fan . . . what if you ran an electric fan and modified its housing to suit??? or no fan for your racing purposes???

 

I actually dont have either a fan or a fluid dampner anymore. I have some custom dampner that has a pickup on it for RPM

 

then all you should need to do is extend the shafts to clear the dampner if it is bigger than stock. the drive pulley shaft would be easy to have made, but the pump shaft might be quite difficult . . . .

too bad Opie won't spread the love!!!

 

don't bother extending the pump shaft, although a good machinist could do it with no problems, it would create a weak link in the system. Simply modify the mounting bracket to move the pump farther out to reach. And those cog belts are available in an amazing variety of lengths, to suit any application.

The pulley for your damper would simply need a spacer behind it, to work with your configuration, if the damper is deeper than stock.