limige
Sep 11 2004, 01:39 AM
hi everyone! newbie to this board!
someone pointed me here and said some of you guys had some nice fuel setups.
i'm in the process of building a nice turbo car. probably a t70-76 looking for around 700hp out of it. i picked up an areomotive a1000 for a pump. trying to decide how to do the rest of it.
sump the tank or fuel cell?
if fuel cell where do you mount it in a 4th gen? 94 hardtop.
being that this car is for mainly street and some track i'm worried about cornering and loosing fuel on a sumped tank.
the a1000 has -10AN in and out, so a -10 bulkhead on the tank is given.
i need a matching fuel filter and regulator.
my fuel rails are setup for -8AN fittings.
so if i run a 10 to the front i need a regulator with a 10 in and two 8's out. boost referenced.
i've heard rumors the aeromotive regulators are garbage, so i'm leary there.
trying to decide on a good budget filter that will flow my needs.
i don't really want to run hose from the back to the front, i want to run aluminum 5/8 line up to the filter and braided hose from there, but i'm also having difficulty finding 5/8 hardline to
-10AN adaptors
so any pics, links, or words of advice would be some help!
thanks,
mike
limige
Sep 15 2004, 12:01 AM
ttt, come on guys, dig up some pics, i know you have them!!!
does everyone use hose or are the -10 AN to hardline fittings out there?
sgarnett
Sep 15 2004, 02:40 AM
I can't help you, but welcome!
tracknut
Sep 19 2004, 03:39 AM
Those are big lines. I used XRP (www.xrp.com) fittings on my fuel system, and a quick scan of their catalog shows tube sleeve/nut fittings available all the way up to 20AN. I'd assume the other vendors like Earls, Russel, etc have large sizes too, but I don't have their catalogs.
When I did mine, it was recommended I use two filters. A rather coarse one between the tank and the pump (get out the chunky stuff), and a fine one between the pump and the fuel rails. For both of these, I used the type of filter with a wire mesh screen that you can open up and clean out - essentially a lifetime filter as long as you clean it periodically. And it's *real* handy to have a shutoff valve between the tank and the first filter, so you can disassemble your fuel system while there's still fuel in the tank.
Good luck,
Dave
limige
Sep 20 2004, 01:17 AM
thanks for the tip, i guess APE can get some of those fittings, but they don't stock them. it's a nice idea with the filters, i'll have to see if i can find some reasonably priced so i can get two. what brand of fllters did you use?
tracknut
Sep 20 2004, 03:01 AM
I used a Petersen filter (big red cylinder here
http://home.comcast.net/~david.mills/z28/i...l/fuelv2at.jpg) that actually had a shutoff valve in it - kind of nice. That's the one before the pump. Then the smaller mesh one was a Russel filter.
Dave
limige
Sep 21 2004, 12:10 AM
hmm, link didn't work for me..
94bird
Sep 21 2004, 01:12 AM
Link works for me. Try it again?
tracknut
Sep 21 2004, 01:59 AM
I fixed it.... sorry!
Dave
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