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Re: out of fuel- I think?

To: "Bill Babcock" <BillB@bnj.com>, <fot@autox.team.net>
Subject: Re: out of fuel- I think?
From: "MARK J WEATHERS" <markjwea@email.msn.com>
Date: Tue, 18 May 2004 04:43:17 -0700
The holley pumps have an internal bypass valve that shunts fuel output back
to the suction side, it seems like it would be unnecessary to to have a
bypass style regulator?

Mark W
----- Original Message -----
From: "Bill Babcock" <BillB@bnj.com>
To: <fot@autox.team.net>
Sent: Monday, May 17, 2004 8:28 PM
Subject: RE: out of fuel- I think?


> Sounds like deja vu all over again.
>
> The little holley regulators really bug me. Mine started to do the dance
> last weekend. It's always the same--the pressure drops and you wind up
> cranking it way up to make three pounds. It works fine and never goes
high,
> until some time when you're fiddling with it, it jumps up so you crank it
> back down and then find three pounds is right about where it used to be.
I'm
> starting not to trust them. I guess I need to redo my system. I have two
> pumps (rotary centrifugal--I think they are Carter but might be Holley) in
> parallel with check valves on the outlet. I can reach seven pounds. The
flow
> rate is huge--about 5 GPM with both on, 3 GPM with one.
>
> I guess I need a bypass regulator, but I'll stick it in the back with the
> pumps--I don't like the the idea of a long run of return line. What bypass
> reg did you use and where did you get it?

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