What Fuel Line Type................
............should I use for an EFI DD street car? If one were to replace the fuel system, should he/she go with hard lines or braided steel with the AN fittings and such? Or a combo of both?
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I converted from carb'd to EFI on my 85. I just spliced into my hard lines and ran -8 feed through a Walbro 255, with a -6 return. I used Russel spring-lock to AN adaptors at the rails [I am using 351 truck rails]. the only thing with an external pump was the mounting is tricky because I did not want to drill any holes.sigpic
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1985 P43 Crown Vic, "Lightning Interceptor". Project is back on!
1987 P72 Crown Vic, EFI 351W (not my conversion), rusty and crusty parts car.
2006 Ford Fusion, 30MPG, premium sound, daily driver, 200K miles and still going.
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im using braided line from the tank to the filter, to the pump and about a foot out of the pump. it meets up with aluminum hard line and that runs to the regulator on the firewall, after that its all braided again. doing your long run in hard line keeps the price down and saves some weight since the braided is heavier per foot that hard linehttp://secondhandracing.com/Home.aspx
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5/16" steel fuel line and 5/16" high pressure fuel hose and fuel hose clamps are what i use
1986 lincoln towncar signature series. 5.0 HO with thumper performance ported e7 heads, 1.7 roller rockers, warm air intake, 65mm throttle body, 1/2" intake spacer, ported intakes, 3.73 rear with trac lock, 98-02 front brake conversion, 92-97 rear disc conversion, 1" rear swaybar, 1 3/16" front swaybar, 16" wheels and tires, loud ass stereo system, badass cb, best time to date 15.94 at 87 mph. lots of mods in the works 221.8 rwhp 278 rwt
2006 Lincoln Town Car Signature. Stock for now
1989 Ford F-250 4x4 much much more to come, sefi converted so far.
1986 Toyota pickup with LSC wheels and 225/60/16 tires.
2008 Hyundai Elantra future Revcon toad
1987 TriBurner and 1986 Alaska stokers keeping me warm. (and some pesky oil heat)
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I might use a combo of the two like Duece said. I don't believe that I have ever used braided steel on anything DD, so I was concerned about durability. When the time comes, I'm going to modify a Mustang fuel pump, run AN braided steel to the filter, hard aluminum along the frame to the engine compartment, then AN braided steel to the rails. I measured a -6 AN carb line thatI have for the 390FE and it's like 3/8" standard; I think that may be a little large for a mild 351W.
Heretic: Long time no hear. How's the Lightning Bolt going?
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Going great so far, i took some time off, mainly to fix shit around my house, but now I'm back on it. The above is my fuel system I did last month... Got the wiring all sorted and ready to go now. All I need is the exhaust and to modify my damn 65mm throttle body. I hope this sees the road in the next few weeks. Videos and pics will be posted!sigpic
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1985 P43 Crown Vic, "Lightning Interceptor". Project is back on!
1987 P72 Crown Vic, EFI 351W (not my conversion), rusty and crusty parts car.
2006 Ford Fusion, 30MPG, premium sound, daily driver, 200K miles and still going.
2011 Ford Fucus, 36MPG, Sync, wifey / baby mobile.Comment
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You really need a fair amount of motor to exceed what the stock fuel lines can provide. What exactly are you planning to build here?86 Lincoln Town Car (Galactica).
5.0 HO, CompCams XE258,Scorpion 1.72 roller rockers, 3.55 K code rear, tow package, BHPerformance ported E7 heads, Tmoss Explorer intake, 65mm throttle body, Hedman 1 5/8" headers, 2.5" dual exhaust, ASP underdrive pulley
91 Lincoln Mark VII LSC grandpa spec white and cranberry
1984 Lincoln Continental TurboDiesel - rolls coal
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I drive a Lincoln. I can't be bothered to shift like the peasants and rabble rousers
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A mild EFI hydr. roller 351W for the CV. I'm slowly saving up for the build. Right now I'm trying to get the supporting mods done or planned out before I tackle the engine.
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