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Old 09-02-2024 | 11:33 AM
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Fuel Management Unit.
What you are calling a ‘boost reference 2-stage FP regulator.’
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Noted. I'll have to dig it up, but I'm fairly certain that is how it was described on the receipt. All good.

THIS THIS
is what is going back in during rebuild.

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Old 09-03-2024 | 08:25 AM
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Guys,

So, I'm chewing on this, viewing this as a potential solution for others down the road, and need a consensus....

What size fuel inlet -AN fittings, and what size return -AN fittings? Maybe two different setups for NA and boosted? These decisions are NOT in my wheelhouse....

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Inlet? Outlet? Both?

NA? Boosted? Both?

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Inlet? Outlet? Both?

NA? Boosted? Both?

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Both
Both
Should support 800+HP. And at that power level if someone is asking fuel line size they probably shouldn't be rigging a 1000HP engine.
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Old 09-03-2024 | 12:11 PM
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Should support 800+HP. And at that power level if someone is asking fuel line size they probably shouldn't be rigging a 1000HP engine.
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Fair enough point. To be fair, I won’t be doing the rigging. I’m just building a fuel rail for what is going to be rigged. I’m also thinking down-road for others that may be looking for a replacement fuel rail

Not to nitpick, but would this be for each rail, or a single line before splitting to the two separate rails? What I’m building is a PAIR of rails, that will be plumbed together by Ys or Ts. What I’m looking for is what should be at the end of each rail, incoming and returns.

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You could just tap the ends of the fuel rails to 3/8 pipe and the installer can use whatever size AN fittings that he wants.
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Old 09-03-2024 | 01:14 PM
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Originally Posted by Brad Christy
Not to nitpick, but would this be for each rail, or a single line before splitting to the two separate rails? What I’m building is a PAIR of rails, that will be plumbed together by Ys or Ts. What I’m looking for is what should be at the end of each rail, incoming and returns.

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There was a lot of discussion in my EFI thread about Y's and T's and they talked me out of them. This is what I ended up with. Probably wont work for your application.
I'd stick with -8.

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Originally Posted by snapmorgan
You could just tap the ends of the fuel rails to 3/8 pipe and the installer can use whatever size AN fittings that he wants.
would probably be better to cut them for an O-ring fitting as the pipe thread could split the aluminum rail as the ends would not be very thick. I am not a machinest so that is just a guess.
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Old 09-04-2024 | 02:46 AM
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Shouldn't the return line be sized bigger than the feed line?
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