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I have a return-style regulator that I'm thinking of placing where you have yours. With the fuel line on the Eddy reversed it would put the connection right below the regulator, which would shorten the overall run significantly. If you think about it, I can either put the regulator in front of the carb and run supply and return lines all the way to the front of the engine, right past the headers, or go up at the back of the engine like you've done and keep things shorter. I would think all of that would be helpful in keeping the fuel to the carb cool.
Anyway, we've hijacked this thread enough already.
Anyway, we've hijacked this thread enough already.
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Gary, I have a 3" body lift so there is more room to work with on the firewall. I don't know if all the junk would still fit there if it had to be squeezed between the back of the manifold/air-cleaner and firewall.
A "return style system is definitely better - so if you're going to do it, might as well do it right.
A "return style system is definitely better - so if you're going to do it, might as well do it right.
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Which lines are you going to get rid of? What is your priority on which lines go and which lines stay? Do you take the lines off your Audi's also?
I am giving you a hard time because we see this all the time on here. People rip all the lines off and then write back in with all these different problems they have. Or they get a truck cheap because it won't run right, and find out the previous owner took things off that they should not have.
True, you can take some of the lines off when you change the intake and carb. Right now with it being stock, I would research what any particular line does and educate myself as to how the engine may react if I take it off. If Ford could have left some of those lines off I am sure they would have, they didn't just put them on there to aggravate people working on the engine(though it does seem that way).
I am giving you a hard time because we see this all the time on here. People rip all the lines off and then write back in with all these different problems they have. Or they get a truck cheap because it won't run right, and find out the previous owner took things off that they should not have.
True, you can take some of the lines off when you change the intake and carb. Right now with it being stock, I would research what any particular line does and educate myself as to how the engine may react if I take it off. If Ford could have left some of those lines off I am sure they would have, they didn't just put them on there to aggravate people working on the engine(though it does seem that way).
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Lol, I did delete the whole emissions system an most unnecessary vac lines on the audis, but I know what I'm doing on those, my s4 I converted from twin turbo to single 5858 turbo, running a little over 600hp , on my a6 I'm ko4 twins around 450. So I know those cars. I'm stumped on this older stuff haha. Just looking to clean the vac up an get rid of anything that's unneeded to make things simple.
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My experience on an Audi 100LS in the 70's with K-Jetronic injection was completely different than anything I've ever dealt with - before or after. The electrical system was a joke - a bad joke. The valve guides were so soft they were gone at 60K miles. And the injection had many problems. It wasn't long after that when they quit importing them, and I understood why.
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