How to Properly Setup a Muscle Car Fuel System

How to properly set up a fuel system for your muscle car with a carburetor or an EFI system. Both the same, just some variants to components. Get this right, and tuning on your carb or EFI is easy. Get it wrong and you’ll be fighting gremlins with no solution. Its not difficult, but getting this right will save you time, money and frustration. Tuning is EASY when you start with a good system. Here’s how to do it!

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[Dmack]

This information is so powerful that it was mandatory that I subscribed to the channel!

[charliejernigan]

Thank you so much for this video. I am one of those old farts that believed if you bought a mechanical pump designed for your vehicle you were good to go. For years I have been blaming the carbs for my fuel delivery problems. I stumbled across your video shopping for a pump that put out less than 6.5 psi. After watching your video I ordered my pump(not worrying about too much psi), 2 filters, pressure regulator and a gauge. Thanks again, Charlie

[denniswinston]

Looks like i will be buying a pressure regulator sounds this will solve my flooding problem great 👍🏻 info

[brucegambill]

On the Mechanical fuel pump, exactly! I just experienced the same exact thing but mine was upwards of 8lbs. I wore out the threads in the float bowls so bad, I had to make my own brass helicoils for the needle and seat, or buy new bowls. I finally woke up and hooked up a gauge to it.

[evolusd]

My fuel pressure gauge reads 8 psi from mechanical pump to Edelbrock 1406. Installing a regulator STAT!

[ChadSutherlin-eqfm]

Very good technical support for a carb fuel system and e.f.i

[jrojanome]

Sir this is by far the best anything video I have ever seen . The way you analyzed each item and not dwelled on whether your opinion over one product or brand mattered more you focused so perfectly into what the viewer wanted. User wants a working car via components that match together with their inner workings no matter the brand. By simple test. As a technical instructor and developer of content your style of teaching is amazing.

[justgriff]

I recently got a 1972 Roadrunner that has a Holley blue with no return line. It is super loud. I am learning a lot from your videos. Thanks for passing the knowledge on.

[carsondavis]

Building my 67 BB dart for the strip and I’m switching to a Holley red electric pump and -6 an line and this just made the install so much simpler for me. Thank you!!!

[briang]

Excellent video man, you hit all the key points that people typically overlook. I personally love mechanical fuel pumps but I always use the 3 line versions that have a return or if I cant get that I will atleast use the 3 line Chrysler fuel filter so the fuel can bypass and limit the pressure. I personally hate electric fuel pumps with a passion because of "hot rods" retrofitted with electric pumps 11 times out of 10 will have a POS clickety clack or Holley red fuel pump mounted above fuel level with about 15 feet of cheap Chinese junk rubber fuel line with cheap worm gear hose clamps dangerously mounted and wired and usually have no return and the pump hot wired on a toggle switch or straight to the key with no oil pressure or tach safety in case of an accident. They do work and can be really good but take way more money, time and effort than most are willing to spend I like the mechanical pumps because they work and you really cant rig them and if the engine stalls, floods over or gets into a crash it will stop pumping fuel and is alot safer than a hot wired electric pump.

[elcuh]

I wish I would’ve seen this video before I’ve been struggling for months trying to figure out why my stock quadrajet carb would always flood on my 79 camaro project I changed pretty much every thing I thought would be the culprit but I found out by myself quite recently that the mechanical fuel pump I bought for it a while ago was pushing way too much psi that carb could handle and I finally came to the realization that I needed a fuel pressure regulator and yesterday I bought a bypass fuel pressure regulator for it and hopefully that old girl would be ready for the streets again. And thank you for the clarification I got from this video.

[PNT-Garage]

Binge watching your channel and loving all of these info episodes. Great stuff Sir with LOADS of excellent information.

[codymon]

Fuel system so under looked thank you for making so easy to understand

[lewf]

My gosh, man! Thank you so much for this video. I’m “running” a Weber carb on my ‘85 Nissan PU and at first thought this was going to apply only to the Muscles. Well explained to get me on my way. Thanks.

[napoliansolo]

Good tech! Never considered all these points you made about the fuel system. A lot of the problems you mentioned about analog systems makes sense in a digital world. Adding a gauge on the fuel system to give you data about what it's doing really makes sense. 40 some years ago I had a 67 Camaro that would "run out of gas at 115+. It was a daily driver and I didn't have time to tear into it, but I know now what I should have done. 1. Put on a pressure gauge and check the pressure from the fuel pump. 2. Check fuel filters for crud. P.S. I wish I could have thrown the mono leaf springs in the garbage. Every time I let out the clutch the springs would warp and the whole car would shudder violently. Thanks. Subscription added.

[andrewbader]

Great video! Thank you! It made me check my system. I was experiencing a very gassy exhaust, which despite my best efforts could not solve. On my SBC, it turns out I have a Jegs mechanical fuel pump pushing out 5.7 to 9 PSI and an Edelbrock carb which is optimal at 5.5 PSI (with a max pressure of 6.5 PSI). Per your suggestion, I installed a pressure regulator and gage between the two week and made some adjustment. Immediately, I saw improvement. Very happy. Thanks again!

[rpod]

Superb video, easy to comprehend, thanks for sharing your knowledge, helped me out immeasurably

[fuelbasti]

I'm faced with the decision to continue using my red Holley or take a blue one. I'm going to lay a return line because of vapor lock, I'll do that via a bypass regulator. The engine is a 320hp Edelbrock nothing big. Actually I don't need a reg for the red one I know. But I thought it was ok to do so. But I'm wondering whether the red one ultimately leaves enough pressure on the carb. Or just take the blue one (even if it's too big) but at least I can really regulate it something because it runs higher psi. I can probably only read the current status from the red one and hope that the system doesn't run far below 5psi.

[peepeesmelly]

Good stuff. I'm about to re-do the fuel lines and mech pump on my 68 camaro with a 396. I will be taking some of the info to the bank

[joesmith-fisx]

And the kind of filters I had up front was a simple wiz type clear plastic small filter. The one in the rear right after tank was a small metal about the same size filter. Today I replaced that with a new little wix. Definitely did not have a big 100 micron filter anywhere