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pailer · **Used fuel rail, might not be good**

My one peice intake fuel rail broke on me. So I called up Cindy at Fwd and asked her if she had any stock rails. She did, and so I orederd one and got it yeater day. I noticed it was tough to blow into it(w/o FPR on injectors) through the barb sticking off where the fuel line connects to. I tried the FPR inlet and could blow with ease. Also with the fuel intector holes.
On my original fuel rail Iwas able to blow through the fuel barb with the FPR and injectors connected.

Dose this mean there is a kink in my new used fuel rail?

Alos, one other variable is that on the new rail there is a top hat looking thing on the other end where my original one dose not have this top hat. Could this restricted flow be from the two diffrent designs? Any help would be awsome, thanks.

tryingbe · 02-08-2007, 06:45 PM

Best to contact FWD with your problem first.

pailer · 02-08-2007, 07:32 PM

well, I did. Cindy said she would look at another fuel rail and call me back But she never did. I know she is busy, I just thought someone else would have an answer. I will call Cindy tomorow

enforcerdaytona · 02-08-2007, 10:13 PM

I see no reason that there would be any restriction with any hole open, whether it be a fuel injector or FPR taken off. The one thing you can try is hit the schrader valve, if there is any restriction then yes there is a problem. I know for a fact that if you take off an injector that air (or normally fuel) will flow freely, however I am not 100% sure about only the FPR taken off, but I think that it would be no different than an injector taken off. It would make no sense to me that the FPR hole would be any different since the FPR has a spring loaded internal diaphram that is set to a certain pressure (55 psi in our cars with no vac.) so it would have to see the same pressure as that in the rest of the fuel rail.

**detobias** · 02-13-2007, 03:51 PM

fyi the top hat looking thing on the end of the fuel rail is a damper ; spring loaded diaphram intended to smooth out the pressure fluctuations in the fuel rail ; should have absolutely no relation to your problem...

your fuel inlet sounds kinky

you could try to 'unbend' or 'unflatten' it some where the kink seems to be, but I think you may be better off cutting it close to the FPR and adding a barb or attaching to the steel line past the kink...