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66 mustang return fuel line

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geterdun   +1y
I bet on the cornering, does it wallow around sharp curves taken fast?
I had a 77 Smokey And Bandit 6.6 TA (W42 engine, it seems) TransAm (factory front and rear sway bars, and other goodies), half the fun is the power sliding around mountain curves (I lived in Tennessee during that time of my life, everywhere was around or over a mountain). I did everything in the movie except jump a bridge, duh, and drive down a river. Never used the brakes for the turns, as it was done in the movie, even across the interstate u-turn.
The car would do a 180 on a two lane road at fifty miles per hour, end up pointed the other way, in the other lane, as I said no brakes used. Posi-traction a requirement for that.
It did the straight line thing too. Speedometer was round, 1/3 0-50, 1/3 50-100, four grand in drive was pointed to the "m" on the M.P.h. at the bottom of the speedometer. I never got past that, fast enough.
Add power steering or not, change the steering wheel, better CONTROL.
oth   +1y
With no p.s and small s.w,Corner scared me since I'm afraid to loose control but on the straight line it's hang on time odometer tops at 140 came really closed to at but ran out of real estate.
oth   +1y
Before i place an order from summit, do i still need to run relay on the fuel pump if connected the power to the oil sending unit.
and thanks for your help
geterdun   +1y
I would use a relay so the pump gets full battery voltage without drop through the switch, plus drop from this other thing, and that thing on the same wire, or circuit. If you stumble, why let it be because of the wiring drain on the power to the pump?
Also, the draw from the relay through the oil pressure unit will wear the contact less than the zap of the fuel pump draw every connect/break. The relay draw is probably milliamps, not multiple amps, contacts in the oil pressure unit will last years plus.



When you lose it in a curve, turn into the skid and nail it to break traction, and push the car the way you want to go. Practice this in a field or an abandoned parking lot. Practice quick, get gone before the blue lights appear, practice is noisy.
Have to practice somewhere to be able to take curves (in the mountains) with posted 20 m.p.h. signs, at forty-fifty m.p.h. in your lane, always. But I did do my practicing in those curves.
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oth   +1y
Cool,thank you, Oth
oth   +1y
UPDATE : got the package from summit racing couple days ago so today i try to wire the fuel pump relay the power from the oil pressure unit comes in pulses not constant voltage so my fuel pump goes on and off as if i flip the switch to on and off is this okay.
geterdun   +1y
Where is the relay power for the fuel pump coming from?
When you hook a wire direct from the battery to the fuel pump, does it act the same way? You do know the electric pump should pump up to set pressure and pause (idle if you will) until the line pressure drops? Then it will pump up again.
Try this.
oth   +1y
Thanks it's been a long day I'll get back to it again later this week still have to plum the fuel lines with AN fittings
thanks again, Oth