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How useful is an underhood fuel presure gauge?

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Old 02-28-2006, 06:47 PM
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Default How useful is an underhood fuel presure gauge?

If one runs an adjustable FPR, I guess you'd need a gauge to adjust to the proper pressure. But once its set, wouldn't the gauge be kinda useless? I'd think fueling problems (crapped out pump, etc) would arise under high load / high RPM situations when obviously you can't look under the hood.
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Yes.
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lol, terse responses recently - though effective, I suppose. Thanks =)
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You run a tyrolsport, IIRC - so do you have a gauge?
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I'm not quite sure . . . on the dyno?
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i'll let you stand with your head over my engine bay at WOT on the dyno....
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Just reassurance you are running the correct pressure @ idle is worth the $30 if you ask me and you can always upgrade to an in-cabin ghetto hose out the hood and through the front window mod. Very classy, lol.
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yep, they're cheapo compared to the adj fpr, so i'd definitely get one. was just curious how useful
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Thanks to your advice the other day, I've got one on order.


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