kenfyoozed
Member
I want to add a fuel pressure regulator to my fuel system. Is there any recommendations of what to run? Or what to avoid?
Wow, electric pump?I will double check my fuel pressure again. I checked it yesterday and the reading I got was over 9psi. I unhooked the fuel line from the carb, with the bowls full. Plugged my gauge into the end of my fuel line. Started the car and pressure went up to over psi before fuel started squirting out between the line and the push on fittings.
Good to knowDon't know much about regulators except the one sold by Mr Gasket is a piece of leaking crap!!
I will keep that one in mind. I picked up an edelbrock that has a gauge port and installed a gauge. Ran rubber fuel lines from pump to regulator and then carb with fuel filter between. I plan on hard piping later, but just wanted to get it back on the road ASAP. Got it set about 5.5psi at idle. As of now she starts back up every time. Will take a test drive this evening to test her all out.Swap the pump. I run this on my 66 newyorker, internally regulated to 6.5 psi, and you can check your fuel pump pushrod length while you are in there
Holley Mechanical Fuel Pump
Spinning over fast enough has NO bearing on starting. As long as the mechanism in the distributor produces a spark, that's all that's needed at ANY starting speed. I watched as my friend's '69 Daytona barely turned over and started so that he could drive the car onto some ramps for it to be judged at Mopar Nats one year. IF he'd had an electronic system of ANY kind, rather then the points ignition, it would not have started at all. He forgot to put the battery on the charger when he got to the motel, before he went to the track for the judging process. As all control boxes have a minimum voltage at which they'll produce a spark. In the case of the Orange box, that low limit is quite high, by observation . . . watched one spin over way fast enough, but not fire until it had some jumper cables attached to the battery. Then it fired off quickly after that.
Any fuel which might percolate out of the carb into the intake manifold, usually will "steam" out through the carb when it hits the hot plenum in the intake manifold. Provided, of course, the heat riser is still working and that passage is no blocked off. FWIW
CBODY67