SS Slant Six Dart

StrokerScamp said
Your car's not accelerating hard enough for the regulator placement to be critical.....in fact, there probably aren't many cars on this forum that do. What I am going to do with mine, I would recommend you copy. I plan to come into the engine compartment straight up the corner where the inner fender meets the firewall on the passenger's side with my fuel line. Then turn a large radius 90 and run horizontally across the firewall and come from behind across to the carburetor with the regulator on a bracket close to the carburetor. That way, you can run a 3" piece of fuel hose running parallel with the intake manifold to make up for engine movement with no kink whatsoever. If you look at modern cars, that's how the fuel lines run.

Don't wanna sound like I'm highjacking the thread----but per NHRA you can't have any lines running along the firewall that could be damaged in the event of a clutch/converter explosion. This deals primarilt with brakelines as NHRA doesn't want the car unstoppable should something occur but the same could be said about fuel lines. Now I know someone's gonna say: "Dart brakelines run along the firewall from the factory!" and yes, I know that, but STRICTLY speaking they're technically illegal although many tracks allow it as it IS the stock location & that's what many tech guys accept. As to the fuel lines running by or near that same area---NHRA requires that they too must be shieldedwithin (I think) 12ins. of the flywheel area, so they're not being inconsistent in their requirements. My car has the brakelines running along the K-member instead of the firewall & I've never beeen "called out" on it.
As to the original fuel issue---just my .02, but I'd run it past the carb, along the framerailwith the reg up on the inner fender panel, a slight rise in the fuel line to the reg, then as straight an inlet to the carbfrom the reg as possible using smoothbore teflon/braided steel line. It expands far less under pressure, is smoother, withstands more heat, lasts longer and will therefore provide more consistent fuel pressure.......