Honda / Racor filter interchange?

I tend to overbuild stuff. In retrospect, the two pieces of angle are not needed. The rings are easily fabricated with 3/4in aluminum bars stock purcahased at Home Depot our your prefered hardware supplier. I just used a bench vise, a hammer, and a drill for the screw holes. I bent it around a paint can or something. I can't remember what I used.
 
I have tried searching in our library, but have not found if twin 50's (what I have) or 40's require two separate fuel filter/separators or just one adequately sized one? I have a Racor 120R-Rac-01 which shows max flow of 60GPH. According to Racor's general rule of thumb: h.p.x.36 = fuel flow (GPH). Since I have both tanks plumbed to the fuel switch, it goes to the one Racor. My mechanic is recommending that I go directly from one tank to filter to outboard and bypass the fuel switch.

Can someone advise...thank you.

Vern
 
I'm not sure why your mechanic want's to bypass the fuel switch. I like the choice of burning off one tank first if I need to balance weight ect. Anyway, I have a honda 90 running on one racor rt10 filter. Since the twin setup does not burn any more fuel than a single 90, it would be my uneducated guess that you can use one filter for both engines. Other than redundancy I don't see the point of having two.
 
flapbreaker-

My guess is that your mechanic wants to have a separate fuel tank and filter for each engine so that if the fuel from one becomes contaminated from age or a bad source, the other engine will still run.

With a single filter system, you lose the redundancy of having twins if a single filter or bad tank of gas can disable both engines.

Joe. :thup :teeth
 
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