[Fot] S.U. Fuel pressure

[Barr, Scott]

I had problems with that style pressure regulator (the inexpensive
chrome one with the big round dial).  I think others have as well.  I
replaced it with the Holley, replaced the Facet pump with a Holley Blue,
put in a nice Autometer pressure gauge and I've had no problems since -
with fuel stuff, anyway  :-)



I also had trouble with one of those glass in-line fuel filters.  I
liked it because you could see that you had fuel in the line, but it was
REALLY restricting the flow.  I was surprised how much it restricted
flow.  I ran a test, pumping fuel through the lines, eliminating one
element at a time, to find my problem.  That in-line filter cut flow by
more than half, IIRC.



Scott



From: marty sukey [mailto:trmarty at hotmail.com]
Sent: Monday, June 06, 2011 9:18 AM
To: colordog.1 at earthlink.net; Barr, Scott
Cc: FOT
Subject: RE: [Fot] S.U. Fuel pressure



Thanks for the feedback Steve, Scott.  I am struggling with a very
intermittent problem with Evelyn's TR8 that I think might be fuel
related.  It just randomly shuts down every once in a while, feels like
it runs out of gas.  Let it sit for 5 minutes and it starts and runs
file.  Last couple of times it did it was once after 150 miles of
driving and once after 250 miles of driving. Prior to that it ran a year
after I had replaced the pump with no issues. Recently I replaced the
ground wire just in case.  Anyhow, the car came with one of those
inexpensive chrome pressure regulators with the big round dial. I seem
to recall folks having issues with those and was going to replace it
with a Holley 12-804 and be able to rule that out as a possible problem
source. My Spitfire has the same type of regulator so I was going to
replace that one at the same time.

Thanks again,

Marty

> CC: trmarty at hotmail.com; fot at autox.team.net
> From: colordog.1 at earthlink.net
> Subject: Re: [Fot] S.U. Fuel pressure
> Date: Mon, 6 Jun 2011 06:50:36 -0700
> To: sbarr at McCarty-Law.com
>
> 2.5 psi
>
>
>
>
> On Jun 6, 2011, at 6:38 AM, "Barr, Scott" <sbarr at McCarty-Law.com>
wrote:
>
> > My pressure gauge says 5-6 pounds. I always expect it not to work,
but
> > it seems to work fine.
> >
> > Scott B.
> >
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: fot-bounces at autox.team.net [mailto:fot-bounces at autox.team.net]
On
> > Behalf Of marty sukey
> > Sent: Monday, June 06, 2011 8:11 AM
> > To: FOT
> > Subject: [Fot] S.U. Fuel pressure
> >
> > What are you folks running for fuel pressure on 1-1/4 S.U.'s ?
Spitfire
> > application.
> >
> > Thanks,
> > Marty
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