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Old 09-10-2025, 10:26 AM
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I to have seen fuel pressure drop off to some degree with every mechanic fuel pump I have ever had on a motor since I installed a fuel pressure gauge and it’s perfectly normal since the diagram gets softer with heat.

As mentioned in post #6 if your only having an issue when things are hot then I would also say you should investigate if the fuel is boiling or not.

I properly set up float and properly bent and loaded retainer arm ( what the float slides on to ) in a Q-jet can take 7 psi easy from what my playing around with a regulator has shown me.

On the other side of this discussion 3.5 lbs is the flat out minimum to have the motor being able to power a car even on level ground at the average rpm it takes to do 25 mph.

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