Home made fuel rails, This was not easy...I am not a machinist Options

[Als914]

Hello all. Thought I would share with the group the final results of my weeks of research, machining, drill tapping, thread cutting and assembly of my home made fuel rail. Unfortunately I didn't take pic's of the various steps but only the finished product. The rail are aircraft quality extrusion blanks. I decided to use brass fittings in my first attempt because it is less expensive than race fittings such as Russell performance

I didn't know how the fuel rails would perform so I used a great deal of caution at all steps of the process and mostly at engine start up. The only leak I experienced was at the exit end of the driver side rail due to (of all things) a mismached end fitting, the theads didn't seat propperly. BTW, I don't know if you can make it out in the pic's but the rails are bracket mounted to the injector hold down bolt and stud.

I now have over five hundred miles and days of 100 deg's on them plus some very hard driving, so I feel comfortable that they will continue to perform well.

[Cap'n Krusty]

As my good friend is fond of saying, it's the answer to the question nobody's asking. Whatever floats your boat, but remember the effort id purely decorative, adding NO functionality to your FI system. The Cap'n

[Als914]

As my good friend is fond of saying, it's the answer to the question nobody's asking. Whatever floats your boat, but remember the effort id purely decorative, adding NO functionality to your FI system. The Cap'n

So I guess fuel rails were engineered and developed as a waist of time and money as your good friend was fond of saying.

[SirAndy]

So I guess fuel rails were engineered and developed as a waist of time and money as your good friend was fond of saying.

I think he meant that the stock fuel rails work just fine and even have the option of adding a fuel pressure gauge build into them.

To each his own i guess but my "waist" is already big enough and i don't need to waste money on bling ...


Now, if your mod allowed to run contemporary fuel injectors instead of the unobtanium stock injectors, i'd be all ears ...
(IMG:style_emoticons/default/shades.gif) Andy