Zephyr's got the percolation blues (HELP!) (link)

[Jerry Clayton]

Areas that need to be changed---the fuel routing from the tank/pump needs to come forward via a minium of -8 (1/2in) line , well clear of all the exhaust and go to the front of the engine to go up to the carb area(this gives it a chance of airflow keeping fuel lines cooler). The fuel pressure guage you have won't work as you already know---it is liquid filled and needs to be vented to balance the pressure or you won't ever read any pressure.
After the line is fed to the carb, mount the regulator and let it regulate pressure via a return line to the tank.

Keep all this stuff off the firewall as you have entirely too much heat from the exhaust in that area--keep it up front and away from Exhaust.

Set the pressure at the carb at 3 1/2 lbs

Take a look at rerouting your stuff according to this and do pics if you can of any problem/questionable areas

[Tom Wells]

Jerry,

Thanks for the input. It's already ordered.

I'll use 10AN for the feed line and 8AN for the return. With a cooler in the return.

Keeping the lines away from any exhaust will be more of a challenge. The car has IRS and a full exhaust which crowds things up quite a bit, so keeping away from that will be a miracle. Thankfully the temps are only about 100* that far back, and I plan to wrap any nearby pipe sections with DEI header wrap as needed.

There will be a pause while the parts are in transit, and also while they are being installed....

Tom