Just curious,

Has anybody mounted a small electric fuel pump in the engine compartment instead of under the car or along the frame somewhere?

It is my understanfing that electric FPs are better suited to push a load rather than pull it. I have never seen that application.

Tiss true always push, never pull!

Priming is the issue, and my understanding is that as long as the level of the pump is below the level in the tank, the fuel will flow to the pump anyway.

That is to say if gas flows out of the line opened where you want to put the pump, you won't have a problem-as long as the line is big enough to keep up with the pump.

Will

While everyone says you should mount it in back to push, I put one in the engine compartment of my yellow car, and it works fine there. Much easier to mount and wire. No problems.

The assumption is that an electric pump is usually a centrifugal design which is a better pusher than suction pump.

I'm in the process of replacing mine and am going to try and relocate the new one back by the tank based on the push versus pull theory. I will say, it was easy to know when the old one quit 'cause I couldn't hear it whirring away up there when I turned the ignition on.