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Old 08-13-2009, 08:45 PM   #81 (permalink)
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Originally Posted by MANDALAY View Post
23814-88570 correct.
Puretone will chim in on regulators. Im using OEM but the Gen 4 one that uses the 530 cc injectors ( caldina ).
Pump im goimg Walbro 255 HF
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Go Walbro 255lph, it's a winner no matter what you do....just if you go much higher boost than say 350-400hp or so get a secondary inline pump with swirl tank. "Why Walbro?" you say? Well they are pretty damned great and have a very very good track record. I'm sure Bosch 044 is great too but I seem to always lean to the Walbro units....and they are plentiful on eBay...
Get some sort of an adjustable FPR with a gauge on it (vewwy vewwy impowtant when hunting wabbits), Aeromotive, though expensive, are great units. As there is not one FPR I know about that will fit onto our fuel rails (unless you make your own rail....plse do and make me one while you are at it...) so it will be an external one mounted to the firewall or so. This means you will be taking off the OEM unit and putting a threaded nipple on there instead and running a fuel line/hard line to the FPR. I had a Megan FPR unit with gauge, worked perfect all the time, then got a nice office on an Aeromotive FPR....my lame ass spent the extra $ to have some bling under the hood.....SARD would be nice too...heck there are hundreds to choose from. Why the gauge? Great way to trouble shoot....running lean all of a sudden? Don't know if it's the fuel pump? Check the gauge!!
What I did:

I found out the fuel rail thread is M12 on 1.25 pitch thread. I just fitted my connector, I went from M12 to AN -3 adapter then from there I go full AN fittings to the FPR

The from there you will have to have your tuner figure things out about the actual fuel pressure, 44 psi is a good place to start, of course depending on your fuel injector cc-size etc.

This is all relevant if you are not going the super-anal-super-stealth-look MANDALAY goes for with his slick as hell OEM look. An external FPR with gauge will be red flags for all anti-mod government agents.
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