Did you go to the track last night Wes?

 

You can come to girls night with me, Jeni, and Susan. You actually might have a car. We can't choose a DD so we might be bussing it into town to get shitfaced. If we do, you can have the car. OR if you want, YOU can be the DD, drop us on Carson and pick us up whenever we call you to come get us......if we can remember where we are. The last time I did this I had to ride piggy back on Jen's back because I was unable to stand up on my own.....

 

Hey Wes do you have a recommendation on vac line for the BRFPS?

I got it hooked up with the vac line removed, so it's not doing anything now. The damn front EVAP fitting won't fit so it looks like the EVAP line option is out. They didn't give me any steel line so I can't use that either. Looks like I'm going to have to rig up my own vac line.

Is it safe to run rubber vac line under the car in the elements? What size approx? 1/8" by 15'? If not what should I use?

Thanks!

 

They didn't give you any line? Wow...

I thought those fittings they gave me looked a little big too.

I went to advance auto parts and bought 25ft of rubber vac line and ran it under the car. I think I only ended up using like 15-18ft worth. I forget what size, but it was standard vac line.

 

Ya those ZZP bastards lol. OK good, I'll just grab some rubber vac line and a tee and go from there. Just wanted to make sure the rubber hose would be alright under the car.

 

Hehehehehe. Had a great time with Jeni. I even brought you back a CEL to diagnose. Car's driving fine, no idea why it came on. I suspect it's something with the intake again. Seems to get pissy with drastic temp changes.

 

I'm sure it's SCIP again. Reset it in the morning.

 

Wes any chance we can meet up this weekend? I'm really curious to see what this car will do on E85

 

Yeah. I work tonight until 10pm. I am off tomorrow. Let me know what is good for you.

Wasn't sure if you guys still sit in Monroeville until Midnight anymore, lol.

 

Anything going in in pit/Robinson on a saturday.

 

fran why does my car throw these codes when its hot (like 95) out, p0171, p01133, p0100?

 

I've been throwing random SCIP codes recently, and have no idea why.

 

I could use more minions to clean my house. That's all I got going on. Cleaning, cleaning, and more cleaning. But at least now my downstairs is presentable enough to have company over.

 

I met up with a few ppl this morning at starbucks in Robinson. Viper, 370z, and a lotus. Haha that was the best I've seen so far. Robinson seems a bit on the dead side with cars at night.

 

Anyone need a black low pro spoiler from a tc?

 

its probably because Im on Fran's 2.7 tune, when we first started up the car with the new head it idled like ****

 

I saw a red ferrari testarossa in monroeville this afternoon when I was going to gab's

 

I saw him when I used to live out that way. Car just looks and sounds like sex. :drool:

 

omg it was beautiful

 

Hey Wes, I dropped the tank and removed the ball and spring for the regulator, ran the vac line, mounted the ZZP peice, etc...

However I having a weird noise out back, and I'm only seeing about 40psi on my fuel pressure gauge. I am thinking my gauge might be bad.. Buttt when I turn the key on, when the pump normally hums for a couple seconds, I hear a sound that sounds like the fuel being sucked and gurgled through the fuel lines. Not sure if this is normal with the ZZP unit? I tried adjusting the regulator screw and my gauge did not really indicate a difference. I am kind of thinking my gauge is bad however as it read 48psi on the car stock. Do you screw in the screw or screw out the screw to raise pressure? I would think in=less pressure and out=more pressure? I am shooting for a 58psi base pressure.

I may go run and grab a new fuel pressure tester gauge and see if I can't get this squared away. Is my noise normal though? I *think* I remember it making that noise when I mounted the ZZP unit, and before I mouted the tank though, so I don't think it's anything I did wrong with the tank...

Help, please!

 

Only time I noticed a different pitch on the stock pump, was when I ran a super high 85-90psi base. Other than that, it sounded normal.

Now I got the Walbro, it's actually quieter than stock.

But screw in raises fuel pressure. This may sound dumb, but when you're turning the torx bit to raise pressure, are you holding the regulator itself and making sure the regulator isn't spinning with you?

On my first one, the loctite was pretty solid and I had to hold the regulator with vice grips and break the loctite loose. Stripped the hell out of the torx when I did it, too.

 

Thanks Wes. That's what is so weird. I put a lighter on the loctite to break it before I adjusted it. It def isn't spinning. I tried putting the screw pretty far in and pretty far out. The fuel pressure still stayed either low or real high. Often times it would sit (while idling) with my gauge fluctuating over 100psi. I tested the gauge on my GF's 2.2 LT and it read a shaky 48psi or so. So I think the gauge is OK. The car however seems to be making the pump run wayyy too high though (100psi+). Maybe that is causing the bad noises? I'm guessing the ZZP regulator being hosed and the stock regulator disabled, may cause the fuel pump to create wayy to much pressure? I'm not quite sure what I can do now as the car isn't safe to drive, unless wait until Tues when ZZP is back and hope they'll overnight me a new unit if I pay.. Grrrr. Any advice besides putting the stock regulator back together (which I won't do) lol?

 

So loosening the torx on the regulator isn't lowing pressure at all? Very odd.

I assume you are adjusting the base pressure with the car running, and the vac line disconnected?

 

Yessir. I loosened the screw a bunch, and the pressure still read over 100 and my gauge just flipped out. I tried to lower the pressure with the line attached as well, hoping it would lower it enough to at least read on the gauge, but it still stayed way too high.

Think I can conclude my regulator is just eff'ed?

Blah lol.

 

I still have that spare ZZP one they sent me. Haven't sent it back yet. Both of mine seem to work fine.

As much as I like the kit, I still think I am not getting all my fuel pressure up top. I really need to get a fuel pressure gauge for in cabin so I can watch it. But I don't want to buy a 200 dollar gauge for something I will look at once.