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Jan 5, 2003
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I got my new fuel rail, its from Injector Clinic. Also got my Aeromotive A1000-6 fp/regulator and hose fittings etc. Im doing the whole fuel upgrade with -6AN from the fuel tank and the return as well.
Ok I also ordered a Russell fuel filter from Jegs 130gph 70-75psi rated 40 micron disc-type element, bi-directional.
The question is will this filter be ok ? People are telling me not to use it that I need a 10 micron filter...Im just wondering if I need to order a different filter before I do my fuel upgrade this weekend comming up, or if I will be fine with the Russell I already got ? Thanks..:confused:
 
It should be fine. I am using a 35micron fuel filter. You already have a filter on the pump and then one before the fuel rail. Anything that manages to make it through all that is small enough to burn up in your cylinders.
 
I hope that filter works better than the Earl's inline one. I tried it and did not have any luck with it-- maybe it was my stock pump with no rewire not being able to push enough fuel through it, but my EGTs skyrocketed until I put the stock filter back on (kept the -6AN line from the filter to the rail, though, thanks to an adapter that screws straight into the stock filter).
 
You sure you didnt have the filter backwards? They are designed to flow in 1 direction :laugh:

You may have just got somethign lodged into your filter because they can flow 10 times more than what any 4g63 could ever use in 1 minute.
 
i have the same russell filter you're talking about, i believe. i'm having problems with it leaking though, to the point where the fuel will squirt out. i pulled it apart and the oring is fine, so i put it back together and tightened it up. it doesn't squirt now, but still leaks like crazy. i'm going to try a new oring, and if that doesn't work, i'm just going to get the aeromotive that i wanted in the first place.
 
Mine came preassembled with the fuel line, so unless AutoAlchemy put it on backwards, it should've been correct. I didn't check inside of it yet, maybe I'll do that sometime.
 
Just to update, I did examine the innards of the Earl's filter I have, and it looks fine. I can also blow through it either way with no apparent "backpressure". I don't know why it wouldn't work for me....
 
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