[Fot] Water in gas

[Tony Drews]

Greg, the best regulators have a return line and are expensive.  The 
one I use does NOT have a return line but works very well.  I use the 
Holley Blue pump / regulator combo kit.  They have two regulators 
available - one goes up to 4 psi, one up to like 7 psi.  I should be 
using the "up to 4 psi" one, but think I may have the higher pressure 
one.  I have it regulated to 2 psi (I run webers and they don't like 
more than that), and it is ROCK SOLID at that pressure at all times 
unless I run out of gas.  The Holley Blue puts out 15 psi and a 
boatload of GPH.  Jack hit on that combination after a series of 
weekends of trying different pump / regulator combinations.  The 
weekend always ended with removing the regulator to keep the car 
running with the low pressure pumps.  Once we found this combo, it 
just worked and we stopped looking.  We probably spent 2 years 
working the problem before we found the solution.

Tony Drews

At 12:38 PM 5/20/2014, Greg And Alison Blake wrote:
>I use Facets (2 of them) and I have a gauge in the dash this indicates
>pressure at the carb. I routinely see fluctuations (3.5 to 0) during a race.
>
>I typically I see the near zero pressure under full load at 6000 rpm. My car
>stumbles a bit sometimes right before I am shifting from 3-4 at 6500 rpm. I
>have assumed the two are related.
>
>It use to be a lot worse when I ran a regulator. Tony Drews pointed out that
>Facets do not have enough pressure to be regulated. I removed the regulator
>and I only have the issue right at the top end.
>
>I plan to make a switch to a higher pressure pump as Bill recommends and
>regulating it to 3 psi. I run SUs.
>
>Two questions for the group. Do you use a return line on the regulator or do
>they just reduce line pressure with no return to the cell?
>
>Favorite higher pressure (15psi +-)fuel pumps?
>
>Thanks,
>
>Greg
>
> > On May 20, 2014, at 10:04 AM, Bill Babcock <ponobill at gmail.com> wrote:
> >
> > I dont use Facets, I like the idea of having more than enough flow and
> > pressure, and regulating it to exactly what I want. I think it solves a lot
>of
> > problems. I like the Holley, Carter or Jegs electric fuel pumps (all
>similar)
> > and the Holley or Jegs regulator. A tiny bit more money, but you can set
>your
> > fuel pressure anywhere from 1 to 10 pounds and have it never change all
>year.
> > And no pulsing pressure. 60+ GPH. They just work.
> >
> >> On May 20, 2014, at 6:49 AM, Michael Moore <mmoore at mtmcpafirm.com> wrote:
> >>
> >> Among many problems, my car was stuttering intermittently on turns this
> >> weekend, and after replacing a blown head gasket because of overheating
> >> problems, and then a bad water pump, I still had problem until I found
> > water
> >> in the float bowls.
> >>
> >> I took apart fuel cell, cleaned and dried it, purge fuel lines, cleaned
> > bowls
> >> again and got new gas. There was a lot of water in bottom of fuel cell.
> >>
> >> My question is, could the water have damage my Facet electric fuel pump?
> >>
> >> On Sunday the overheating was gone, but it was still starving for fuel in
> > some
> >> turns.
> >>
> >>
> >> Thanks
> >> Mike
> >>
> >> 62 TR4, Race car
> >> 63 TR4, Street car
> >>
> >> Mike & Becky Moore
> >> 6050 Ruhl Road
> >> Fairview, PA 16415
> >>
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