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'87 Camaro underway

Old Oct 17, 2005 | 10:40 PM
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do you have a pressure regulator I hope? A holley carb will tolerate high pressures better than most, but it still may run a bit rich (the high pressure pushes fuel past the needle and seat) you only want about 7psi at the carb, injection runs about 40psi, an edelbrock carb can't handle more than about 6 psi before flooding starts
Old Oct 18, 2005 | 08:01 AM
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Originally Posted by archemedes
do you have a pressure regulator I hope? A holley carb will tolerate high pressures better than most, but it still may run a bit rich (the high pressure pushes fuel past the needle and seat) you only want about 7psi at the carb, injection runs about 40psi, an edelbrock carb can't handle more than about 6 psi before flooding starts
Yeah I do, it's a mallory 3 port. That was another issue that I had to iron out before the car would run. I obviously have the line into the regulator then I have an outlet to the carb and an outlet to the return line. Well, both outlet fittings were the same size so the gas was just running back to to the tank. So I went and got a smaller size outlet for the return line to make it a little harder to go back to the tank and that was the trick, it sent the regulated gas pressure up to the carb then. I have school today, but I might skip my last class so I can go work on the car some more
Old Oct 18, 2005 | 07:27 PM
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Well, I just got back from dropping the car off at the muffler shop. My ears are still ringing from the 7 mile drive with open headers. I must say, the car was running great...better than I thought so far...I need to find a power steering bracket though because arm stronging it sucks the mother load. The exhaust should be done by about noon tomorrow, then I'll be galavanting around with that the rest of the night.
Old Oct 19, 2005 | 12:29 AM
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So I learned how to add pictures tonight

Heres a couple of pics of my car before and in the processes. When I get the car back tomorrow, I'll try to clean it up nicely and take some more pics.
Attached Thumbnails '87 Camaro underway-stock-front-drivers.jpg   '87 Camaro underway-2.8.jpg   '87 Camaro underway-5.7.jpg   '87 Camaro underway-stock-back-left.jpg   '87 Camaro underway-hooded-hood.jpg  

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