[V8] A few questions

[Ingo Rautenberg]

Bring fire extinguisher with you. Too many fire stories lately.

On Sun, Sep 5, 2010 at 11:50 AM, <ron_01056 at yahoo.com> wrote:

> All rite, I removed the bolt and fit the hose end onto the regulator.
> I'll go for a drive after I figure out how to remedy the Migivered  front
> pass side fuel rail threaded rod. Seems the intake hole were the rod goes
> into is stripped and the fuel rail was zip tied to the intake to keep the
> rail/injecters in place.
>
>  Ron
>
> Sent from my Verizon Wireless BlackBerry
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: "Steve Buchholz" <urq at pacbell.net>
> Date:  Sun, 05 Sep 2010 08:42:55
> To: <ron_01056 at yahoo.com>; Ingo Rautenberg<ingo.rautenberg at gmail.com>
> Cc: <v8 at audifans.com>
> Subject:  Re: [V8] A few questions
>
> Is it a stock system?  I'm with Ingo ... the system is intended to maintain
> a constant pressure across the injectors so the amount of fuel delivered in
> a certain time is the same, independent of MP.  It would be more important
> for a turbo ... seems to me the only thing leaving the hose off would do
> would make the mixture richer at idle, perhaps slightly richer @ WOT.
>
> It shouldn't hurt to hook the MP line up and observe any differences.
>
> Steven Buchholz (mobile)
>
> ----- Reply message -----
> From: ron_01056 at yahoo.com
> Date: Sun, Sep 5, 2010 8:02 am
> Subject: [V8] A few questions
> To: "Ingo Rautenberg" <ingo.rautenberg at gmail.com>
> Cc: <v8 at audifans.com>
>
>
> Ingo, the little rubber hose (as I stand here in front of it)
> the end that's supposed to go into the little nipple at the back side of
> the regulator has a bolt in it. The other end does go down into the intake
> manifold (as it's supposed to......it just "seems" like the depths cause u
> can't c it)
>
>  But yes the car runs fine. I drove it back from NH with no issues. And it
> looks like the bolt has been in the hose end for a while now.
>
>  Ron
>
> Sent from my Verizon Wireless BlackBerry
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Ingo Rautenberg <ingo.rautenberg at gmail.com>
> Date: Sun, 5 Sep 2010 10:38:38
> To: <ron_01056 at yahoo.com>
> Cc: <v8 at audifans.com>
> Subject: Re: [V8] A few questions
>
> And it runs? I thought the manifold vacuum worked to adjust the fuel
> pressure of the regulator on the fly. Why not connect it and see what
> happens.
>
> I'm a bit confused as to the vacuum hose going to the depths remark. The
> FPR
> hose is only - what - 3 inches long and hooks up to the intake manifold
> right next to the FPR, right?
>
> Ingo
>
> On Sep 5, 2010 10:18 AM, <ron_01056 at yahoo.com> wrote:
> > Lister's, while looking over the converted 5sp I just got I noticed that
> the fuel pressure regulator hose is not attached to the little nipple off
> the back of the FPR.....instead
> > there is a bolt in the end of the hose. But the other end of the hose is
> attached to the inner depths of the Intake as it's supposed to b. My
> question is,
> >
> > what should I do about it?
> >
> > Ron
> >
> > Sent from my Verizon Wireless BlackBerry
> >
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