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limige
post Sep 11 2004, 01:39 AM
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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
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tracknut
post Sep 19 2004, 03:39 AM
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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
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limige   fuel systems   Sep 11 2004, 01:39 AM
limige   ttt, come on guys, dig up some pics, i know you ha...   Sep 15 2004, 12:01 AM
sgarnett   I can't help you, but welcome!   Sep 15 2004, 02:40 AM
tracknut   Those are big lines. I used XRP (www.xrp.com) fitt...   Sep 19 2004, 03:39 AM
limige   thanks for the tip, i guess APE can get some of th...   Sep 20 2004, 01:17 AM
tracknut   I used a Petersen filter (big red cylinder here ht...   Sep 20 2004, 03:01 AM
limige   hmm, link didn't work for me..   Sep 21 2004, 12:10 AM
94bird   Link works for me. Try it again?   Sep 21 2004, 01:12 AM
tracknut   I fixed it.... sorry! Dave   Sep 21 2004, 01:59 AM

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