Grabinov911
Well-Known Member
Guys I'm stumped! This has occasionally happened to me on this project and I've always found someone to rescue me.
Project car is my 1970 Roadrunner with a carbureted 493 stroker. Carb is a Quickfuel 850. Basically a Holley Double Pumper. You guys know the car.
I have a brand new custom aluminum fuel tank (fits in stock location) with an internally mounted electric fuel pump and fuel gauge system. It is plumbed with 6AN fittings for the fuel line and return lines, and has a bung for the tank vent and a drain. I purchased it from Hot Rod City Garage and it is pretty as can be.
I planned to run aluminum hard line from the tank to the fuel pressure regulator in the engine compartment and back again for the fuel return line. I have a very nice Aeromotive fuel pressure regulator and all the fittings to convert from short flexible braided lines at the tank to flared aluminum tube and then back to flexible lines at the pressure regulator. But I'm stuck!
I have good hand tools for tube straightening and tube bending (the Easton ones) and started by attempting to make the section of the hard fuel line which would run from the Fuel Pressure Regulator flex-line toward the back of the car (fuel line or return - they are the same). The problem is that the hard lines take on very complex shapes, and the bends in the aluminum line are much less tight than those in the factory steel fuel lines, making it impossible to duplicate the factory shape. Add to that the fact that I need two matching lines for each section of hard-line, one for fuel and one for return, and the process of creating the lines has gone over my head.
I have all but given up and decided to run flexible lines the whole way, but I need to know where to start, or end! I simply cannot decide where to put the Fuel Pressure Regulator. I have seen them mounted to the fuel log between the two carb bowls. I have seen them mounted on the firewall, on the fender wall, even in the trunk (which I heard was not ideal).
Talk to me boys. Is it ok to go with braided flex ones the whole way? (Pretty sure the answer is yes.)
Where is the best place for the Fuel Pressure Regulator?
Two lines from the regulator to the carb bowls or one to the fuel log?
Send pix!
Greg
Project car is my 1970 Roadrunner with a carbureted 493 stroker. Carb is a Quickfuel 850. Basically a Holley Double Pumper. You guys know the car.
I have a brand new custom aluminum fuel tank (fits in stock location) with an internally mounted electric fuel pump and fuel gauge system. It is plumbed with 6AN fittings for the fuel line and return lines, and has a bung for the tank vent and a drain. I purchased it from Hot Rod City Garage and it is pretty as can be.
I planned to run aluminum hard line from the tank to the fuel pressure regulator in the engine compartment and back again for the fuel return line. I have a very nice Aeromotive fuel pressure regulator and all the fittings to convert from short flexible braided lines at the tank to flared aluminum tube and then back to flexible lines at the pressure regulator. But I'm stuck!
I have good hand tools for tube straightening and tube bending (the Easton ones) and started by attempting to make the section of the hard fuel line which would run from the Fuel Pressure Regulator flex-line toward the back of the car (fuel line or return - they are the same). The problem is that the hard lines take on very complex shapes, and the bends in the aluminum line are much less tight than those in the factory steel fuel lines, making it impossible to duplicate the factory shape. Add to that the fact that I need two matching lines for each section of hard-line, one for fuel and one for return, and the process of creating the lines has gone over my head.
I have all but given up and decided to run flexible lines the whole way, but I need to know where to start, or end! I simply cannot decide where to put the Fuel Pressure Regulator. I have seen them mounted to the fuel log between the two carb bowls. I have seen them mounted on the firewall, on the fender wall, even in the trunk (which I heard was not ideal).
Talk to me boys. Is it ok to go with braided flex ones the whole way? (Pretty sure the answer is yes.)
Where is the best place for the Fuel Pressure Regulator?
Two lines from the regulator to the carb bowls or one to the fuel log?
Send pix!
Greg