Fuel pressure regulator, Where to locate in engine bay Options

[North Coast Jim]

My new 2056 engine running 44IDFs has now about a 40 miles on it. So cool to have this car back on the road after 25 years. Runs way to rich with a 160 main, 175 air correction, 60 Idle jets and a 36mm venturi. Continue to have a problem with popping through the carburetor at partial throttle. Fuel pump is the Carter rotary with inline filter along with their SS lines through the tunnel purchased from Tangerine Racing. Engine builder wants me to install a fuel pressure regulator to eliminate this as a variable. The jetting exercise can come afterward. I bought an Italian made "Petrol King" diaphram regulator with single outet. Will hook up serially the pump/ filter/ regulator / guage than "T" off to the two carbs. I'd like to hard mount this device but where ?? To the body or to the engine ?? I'm sure this has been done before. Any suggestions. Pics would also help. Thanks World

[jmill]

The pic below is of my old bug that had 44's with 36mm vents. It was a 1914cc engine that had Chevy 2.02 intake valves. I needed the large vents to reach 7K RPM. I built it for 8K RPM but never had the guts to spin it that fast and doubt I had the carbs for it. 48 IDA's were an option but scarce at the time.

I did lots of tuning to make them work. It took large accelerator pump jets, F7 ET's and float levels on the fine line of being too high. BTW it got about 6 mpg.

Why go through that mess when you're not drag racing it. Note the Holley 1 in 2 out regulator and fuel pressure gauge. I had a Holley blue pump putting out 14 psi and needed to drop pressure to avoid lifting the float needle valves.