: the pieces, or even the manifold to a
: heating/cooling service tech and have him
: swage the tubing to fit into each other and
: solder the pieces together. The solder is a
: hi-temp silver solder, and A/C uses
: pressures that the efi will never see, so
: there shouldn't be any worries about leaks.
: I'm just not completely sure if it'll work for
: the material that the factory tube-style
: rail is made of. Guess I'll run by somewhere
: and check....stay tuned for answer.
: One could even keep the factory vac-operated
: pressure regulator in the rail and plumb the
: fuel return back to, say, the overflow vent
: in the tank fill spout.
:
: Thoughts....opinions.....I'm full of it?
:
: Roger

: Idea's been bouncing around in the ol'
: shoulder-mounted vaccuum chamber for a
: while.......get two factory rails from the
: Gm efi cars, (could be both four's or
: six's), then cut-and-fit to the spacing
: needed on your manifold, leaving some
: "overlap" for the cut ends. Take
: the pieces, or even the manifold to a
: heating/cooling service tech and have him
: swage the tubing to fit into each other and
: solder the pieces together. The solder is a
: hi-temp silver solder, and A/C uses
: pressures that the efi will never see, so
: there shouldn't be any worries about leaks.
: I'm just not completely sure if it'll work for
: the material that the factory tube-style
: rail is made of. Guess I'll run by somewhere
: and check....stay tuned for answer.
: One could even keep the factory vac-operated
: pressure regulator in the rail and plumb the
: fuel return back to, say, the overflow vent
: in the tank fill spout.
:
: Thoughts....opinions.....I'm full of it?
:
: Roger

: I think I'd get an estimate for fabricating a
: "standard" fuel rail first. You
: may find that it's not much more expensive
: than paying someone to do all that plumbing.
: Rance FI charges $40 an hour for fabricating
: and I'll bet he can do a fuel rail alone in
: a relatively short amount of time. Also, I
: wouldn't force fuel down your vent tube.
: That defeats the purpose of a vent! Doug is
: investigating methods of fabricating a fuel
: rail. Maybe you can get some preliminary
: tips from him.
: Bob D

: Am I missing something, why don't you guys just
: use the MSD stuff?
:
: <A HREF="http://www.msdignition.com/fuel_11.htm">http://www.msdignition.com/fuel_11.htm</A>

: Try this one instead:
: <A HREF="http://www.msdignition.com/fuel_11.htm">http://www.msdignition.com/fuel_11.htm</A>

: I have done a few serious research trips to the
: junkyards and found a numbr of different
: fuel rails which are good candidates for
: modification into our SL6 rail(s).
:
: The one that seems to be the closest is off a 6
: cylinder BMW, it is the one that is trapped
: under the intake runners. (just our luck)
: This rail is set-up on the needed 4 inch
: centers. What I did is cut 2 inches out of
: the center to get the shorter SL6 spacing
: needed at the center position. ( I brazed it
: back together using an inner support
: "sleeve" to position everything
: and add stiffness).
:
: Trouble with this rail is it is a "hose
: clamp" type which uses short pieces if
: hose between the rail "barbs" and
: the injectors, it does work and is pretty
: easy to make. As Bob noted, the extra cost
: to just have an o-ring type rail made-up may
: not be that much more then the time and
: effort to do the junkyard re-fab rail I did.
: DD

: That link is also in the Intake Manifold and
: Fuel Rail section of my posted EFI article.
: I think the issue here is money. However, in
: my opinion money spent on a good safe fuel
: rail is money well spent. A leak here with
: EFI working fuel pressures could be
: catastrophic.
: Bob D