Finally some Dany's Mag swap progress, and fuel line routing questions?
So we FINALLY got to the track this year and wow did the drag radials and slapper bars make a difference!! (Hats off to @318willrun!!)
The car is solidly in the mid 13's now when everything goes right, but...
We drive an hour one way on the interstate to the track, and by the tome we get there it is HOT!!
First pass you could hear it running out of fuel at mid track, we think because of the fuel boiling in the line where it goes next to the header on the pass side on its way to the pump.
and its running on what is in the float bowl for the first 3rd of the track or so.
We fought this a little last year, but then had an "Orange Box" crap out on us and spent time diagnosing that first.
Last year the fuel system got a new carter mechanical "race" pump and we insulated the fuel line for the 2 feet or so it runs along the lower inner fender, right by the Dougs headers.
It is still the original 5/16 line.
If we let the car set for an hour at the track, it makes a perfectly normal 13 sec pass, once..
if you hot lap it, it falls over at mid track again.
let it sit another hour, perfect pass, once..
So the plan is now to upgrade to 3/8 line, route it on the outside of the subframe and up the outside of the subframe connectors to the front of the car and into the engine compartment at or ahead of the pump to minimize the amount of line in the engine compartment.
Our question is, where is everyone else that still runs a mechanical pump running the line past the front suspension to keep it out of the engine compartment?
Thru the wheelhouse behind or under the upper control arm?
Thru the subframe itself?
Curious what others here have done.
Dany was so mad after that pass with the VW, She was like " I tree'd the **** out of him, if the car hadn't laid over I would have beat him and he has a faster car!!
This has been so much fun!!!
So we FINALLY got to the track this year and wow did the drag radials and slapper bars make a difference!! (Hats off to @318willrun!!)
The car is solidly in the mid 13's now when everything goes right, but...
We drive an hour one way on the interstate to the track, and by the tome we get there it is HOT!!
First pass you could hear it running out of fuel at mid track, we think because of the fuel boiling in the line where it goes next to the header on the pass side on its way to the pump.
and its running on what is in the float bowl for the first 3rd of the track or so.
We fought this a little last year, but then had an "Orange Box" crap out on us and spent time diagnosing that first.
Last year the fuel system got a new carter mechanical "race" pump and we insulated the fuel line for the 2 feet or so it runs along the lower inner fender, right by the Dougs headers.
It is still the original 5/16 line.
If we let the car set for an hour at the track, it makes a perfectly normal 13 sec pass, once..
if you hot lap it, it falls over at mid track again.
let it sit another hour, perfect pass, once..
So the plan is now to upgrade to 3/8 line, route it on the outside of the subframe and up the outside of the subframe connectors to the front of the car and into the engine compartment at or ahead of the pump to minimize the amount of line in the engine compartment.
Our question is, where is everyone else that still runs a mechanical pump running the line past the front suspension to keep it out of the engine compartment?
Thru the wheelhouse behind or under the upper control arm?
Thru the subframe itself?
Curious what others here have done.
Dany was so mad after that pass with the VW, She was like " I tree'd the **** out of him, if the car hadn't laid over I would have beat him and he has a faster car!!
This has been so much fun!!!