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    Uber fuel pressure regulator confusion

    We talked about this in one of my oother threads. I found out my edelbrock fuel rail uses a LT1 style FPR.
    Well I do a little searching online and I found that the LT1 was not the only gm engine to use the style of FPR. Craploads of vehicles use them!
    I stumbled upon one on amazon and there is no real discription of it. At the bottom they show what other people have looked at. I found 6 delphi FPR's that look identical, but with just diffrent part numbers. Nothing in the discriptions about what their pressures are, or what the diffrence in them are. They all would bolt onto my fuel rail. But what pressures are they set at? I tried searching, but had no luck,
    Part numbers I found where they all look identical:
    FP10003
    FP10004
    FP10020
    FP10026
    FP10027
    FP10300

    Advance auto offeres a BWD brand adjustable one for like $56. I am thinking about just getting that one.
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    I have an LT1! Never really looked at the regulator and right now the car has at least 2 feet of snow on it, but I thought they were vacuum regulated. Wait! I know they are because fuel pressure at idle is 43.5 and raises like 5-6 pounds at low vacuum.

    Maybe look it up on Rock Auto. 1994 or 95 should be the same. Probably 1996 - 97 too...same motor PCM etc... went OBDII but they added a crank sensor. Why? I don't know, must have been a law because the optispark distributor already did that.

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    Yea, they are all vaccume refrenced, and they have pictures and look identical! So there must be some type of diffrence in either max fuel pressure, or the ammount of pressure drop when vac is applied.

    So the LT1 is 43.5 WITH vaccume applied, and then goes up? Humm, we talked about it in another thread and I thought the 43.5 psi was the max pressure, meaning what it is with no vac. I thought that was how FPR's were rated. I know the FPR on the 4.0 in my wrangler is a 39 psi regulator. Thats the pressure with the vac disconnected. Its also the only pressure the repair manual gives, because with vac applied, it can vary depending on how much vac is applied. But it drops a few pounds.
    So if the 43.5 psi is with vac, then its probably gonna be something like 45 psi with no vac. Thats too much pressure for the injectors I am running. I will be drowning my engine.
    From the rough calculations, I was estimating somewhere around 40-42 psi should be about right. 43.5 psi would have been right at the limit, and a bit on the high side, but I think it would have been ok. But now that I know thats not the max psi, I think the adjustable one is gonna be the way to go. For me anyways.
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    There's only one on Rock Auto that is cheaper than the one you found adjustable and it's plastic (maybe black metal). All the others were metal and more money.
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    Thats what all of the above mentioned ones looked like, And is identical to the bad one I got from the junkyard. Its black painted metal.
    Heres the adjustable one from advance auto.
    http://shop.advanceautoparts.com/web...R%7CGRPFUELAMS_____#
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    Still vacuum reference and adjustable! Priced right! May be your answer...

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