installing aeromotive fuel pressure regulator on 2g dsm

[geno414]

Hey so i bought a aeromotive fuel pressure regulator and i don't know if this is the right way to hook it up im going to try to upload a picture of my set up if i did it the wrong way can some one help me ? the first time i did it the gauge wouldnt read but now it will read but i don't know if i did it right can some one please help me ! this is on a 1995 talon 2g tsi awd

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[snowborder714]

Nope. The bottom is for the return. The rail should feed into one of the side ports.

 

[geno414]

Nope. The bottom is for the return. The rail should feed into one of the side ports.

But when i did that the gauge did not work . ? and when i have it hooked up like the way i do in the pic the gauge works. ?

 

[snowborder714]

Not sure why that'd happen. But the way I described is how it needs to be.

 

[geno414]

Thank you ill change it up !

 

[99gst_racer]

Brian's right.

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http://www.dsmtuners.com/forums/articles-engine-fuel/228159-how-build-your-own-afpr-kit.html

 

[geno414]

Ok i went to change it and i started it and it does not show any fuel in the gauge at all it won't read pressure when it is hooked up the way you two are telling me two. but if it's hooked up the wrong way it works and shows psi???

 

[97gst_spyder]

Do you have the vacuum line hooked up?

 

[99gst_racer]

Ok i went to change it and i started it and it does not show any fuel in the gauge at all it won't read pressure when it is hooked up the way you two are telling me two. but if it's hooked up the wrong way it works and shows psi???

Does the engine actually start and run with it hooked up the proper way?

 

[geno414]

it will run with it hooked up the right way but i have no psi going to the gauge so ill take it apart and then the return wont have any fuel in it but the line with the braided steal will have so much built up that it sprays every were but the return will be dry! and yes i have a vac line hooked up that would not cause this.

 

[snowborder714]

And the only thing you changed from the picture above is moving the SS braided line coming from the drivers side of the fuel rail from the bottom port to a side port, as well as moving the fuel return from the side port to the bottom port?

Does anything happen to the gauge when you try and adjust the AFPR? Which AFPR do you specifically have?

 

[geno414]

Nothing happens its like its not working right or something i did as you said and as the other picture said i tried both side ports the only way i get the gauge to work and see psi is when its installed wrong. how can this be??? i even used the lock nut on the top i turned it nothing i unhooked the vac line and nothing put it back on nothing?

 

[snowborder714]

Which AFPR do you specifically have?

 

[geno414]

Does the engine actually start and run with it hooked up the proper way?

car runs to lean at idle and to rich under boost.

Which AFPR do you specifically have?

I have this one for the 2g dsm AEROMOTIVE FUEL PRESSURE REGULATOR KIT + GAUGE 2G DSM | eBay

 

[rEclipserGST]

Take a picture or short video of how you have it hooked up.

 

[geno414]

Take a picture or short video of how you have it hooked up.

The picture is up top that's how it is hooked up then since that was the wrong way i hooked it up as shown in the diagram just like the diagram ! the only way this thing works is if it's hooked up wrong but if its hooked up wrong it's no use to me because it's just causing problems not helping to fix the car.

 

[snowborder714]

If it was me, I'd yank the whole thing, disassemble it and make sure the diaphragm looks ok, and then reinstall it.

Then if that doesn't work, contact the seller and see if they can send you another.

 

[geno414]

Does the engine actually start and run with it hooked up the proper way?

no.

If it was me, I'd yank the whole thing, disassemble it and make sure the diaphragm looks ok, and then reinstall it.

Then if that doesn't work, contact the seller and see if they can send you another.

i already took it all out yesterday and hooked it up to the specs of the diagram and tried to run it that way but it wouldn't i took the lines off to see it was clogged nothing wrong with it at all so i have been emailing the seller about this all day today to see if i can get a new kit.

 

[Archer Fabrications]

prob doesnt work cause its from ebay

 

[CrawlinZX14]

First, dump the FPS and run your vac line strait from the mani to the FPR. Next, Hook it up right, and make sure there are no kinks in the return line. It really looks like there are some sharp bends for those lines to overcome. Try moving your fpr out of that confined corner and see if that helps at all. My guess is going to be that you kinked your lines. That ebay kit you have is CRAP. The hose they send is trash. My buddy picked one up for his car and we compared it to mine which I pieced together because I had the FPR already from another build. My hose came from jegs, his came in the so called KIT. The crap they sent him was basically fuel line with a braided dress up kit on top of it. It was pure garbage. The fittings they sent were not even of decent quality. I am utterly shocked you dont have a fuel leak.

Remove the AFPR. Take another car thats currently running and connect a vac line to the FPR. make sure it opens. Or just take it apart. Remove it, check over everything and reinstall it. See if it changes at all. If you know someone with a good working gauge, you could test yours, cause the gauge may just be broken and not the FPR.

Oh and if you paid the 200+ bux for that "kit", you could have pieced it together and had far better quality. I think I spent 60 bux for my fittings, line and the fuel rail adapter. Add the 150 for the FPR and it would have cost 210 or so to piece it together myself, and I got the jegs elite series black&red AN fittings for a touch of different from the normal red&blue ones. I used 2 90* and 1 180* fitting because of where I mounted my FPR (on my strut tower)

Wish ya the best of luck, but that FPR is backwards in your setup. And paul, you forgot to mention to set base pressure with the car at operating temp in your writeup. Otherwise its off due to fast idle at startup.

 

[geno414]

First, dump the FPS and run your vac line strait from the mani to the FPR. Next, Hook it up right, and make sure there are no kinks in the return line. It really looks like there are some sharp bends for those lines to overcome. Try moving your fpr out of that confined corner and see if that helps at all. My guess is going to be that you kinked your lines. That ebay kit you have is CRAP. The hose they send is trash. My buddy picked one up for his car and we compared it to mine which I pieced together because I had the FPR already from another build. My hose came from jegs, his came in the so called KIT. The crap they sent him was basically fuel line with a braided dress up kit on top of it. It was pure garbage. The fittings they sent were not even of decent quality. I am utterly shocked you dont have a fuel leak.

Remove the AFPR. Take another car thats currently running and connect a vac line to the FPR. make sure it opens. Or just take it apart. Remove it, check over everything and reinstall it. See if it changes at all. If you know someone with a good working gauge, you could test yours, cause the gauge may just be broken and not the FPR.

Oh and if you paid the 200+ bux for that "kit", you could have pieced it together and had far better quality. I think I spent 60 bux for my fittings, line and the fuel rail adapter. Add the 150 for the FPR and it would have cost 210 or so to piece it together myself, and I got the jegs elite series black&red AN fittings for a touch of different from the normal red&blue ones. I used 2 90* and 1 180* fitting because of where I mounted my FPR (on my strut tower)

Wish ya the best of luck, but that FPR is backwards in your setup. And paul, you forgot to mention to set base pressure with the car at operating temp in your writeup. Otherwise its off due to fast idle at startup.

i know it is hooked up the wrong way i have been knowing this for quite some time but that is the only way it works when it is hooked up "wrong" it works like the gauge and everything im just trying to return it and get a new one i feel as if its bad i have never had this happen because i have two afpr one junk nock off one that's blue and that one works like it should and this one that i bought and never worked.

 

[Archer Fabrications]

i know it is hooked up the wrong way i have been knowing this for quite some time but that is the only way it works when it is hooked up "wrong" it works like the gauge and everything im just trying to return it and get a new one i feel as if its bad i have never had this happen because i have two afpr one junk nock off one that's blue and that one works like it should and this one that i bought and never worked.

like i said.. ebay=Garbage. buy your parts from Welcome To Extreme PSI i swear by them

 

[KevinRR]

I have an extra fuel pressure regulator sitting around if you want to try it out.

 

[BoostedinSoFla]

like i said.. ebay=Garbage. buy your parts from Welcome To Extreme PSI i swear by them

Ummm..you do know that there are sellers on Ebay that sell legitimate products right? Extremepsi who you swear by..guess what? They also have an Ebay store too. eBay My World - extremepsi_outlet

 

[geno414]

like i said.. ebay=Garbage. buy your parts from Welcome To Extreme PSI i swear by them[/Just because it's ebay does not make it bad at all extreme psi just sells the same stuff as every other store all it is over priced parts your paying for there website that's all you can buy a name brand part off ebay new and it does not mean if you buy it from stupid website it does not make it any better it is the manufacturer not the seller.