EFI fuel filter placement.

[Mike65 475]

I am getting ready to start to run the fuel lines for my EFI system so anyone here that has converted to EFI where did you mount the fuel filter? Pictures would be very helpful please.

[Vicfreg 771]

Mike, mine is inline on the high pressure(discharge) side of the fuel pump, on the drivers side fenderwell.  Came with my FiTech. I will try and find some pics.

[Shep69 149]

I removed the original windscreen washer bottle and mounted my canister filter in that position. 

[Flanders 46]

reviving this post...any other suggestions?  Seems to be more 'room' under the car on the passenger side (avoids being anywhere near clutch linkage too).  I've got an in-tank pump and will be crafting some Earl's speed-flex SS lines for supply and return.  

The google shows pics of folks mounting it just about everywhere under the car (floor pans, etc) so perhaps I'm over thinking it.  Maybe I'll just mount it on the underside of the trunk, almost above the diff.

Any good spots to route the lines accross the bottom of the car?

[Shep69 149]

I routed my fuel line on the passenger side as well. From tank clipped it over the rear frame rail and onto the inner rocker floor pan panel through the torque box . I used the black braided fuel hose with -6 AN fittings. You could mount a stock style filter to the floor pan using a bracket  as well if you don’t won’t it in the engine bay. 

I used the original steel fuel line on the drivers side as the return line. 

[Grabber70Mach 107]

I really like what Sven did on his 70 in his Night Mission 302 blog.

http://1970boss302.blogspot.com/2017/01/fuel-system-install-part-1-rear-soft.html?m=1

http://1970boss302.blogspot.com/2017/02/fuel-system-install-part-2-hard-lines.html?m=1

 

Part one has a good picture of his placement.  I'm planning on going this route with mine with a few changes incorporating the in tank pump and possibly the routing to the engine compartment area.

[aslanefe 333]

I am using a returnless in tank pump/level sender (regulator is inside the tank) with original hard fuel lines (rubber changed to EFI rubber lines. I mounted the post pump filter between the hard line coming out of engine compartment on left side fender apron and the EFI unit with rubber hoses.

[Mike65 475]

4 hours ago, Grabber70Mach said:

I really like what Sven did on his 70 in his Night Mission 302 blog.

http://1970boss302.blogspot.com/2017/01/fuel-system-install-part-1-rear-soft.html?m=1

http://1970boss302.blogspot.com/2017/02/fuel-system-install-part-2-hard-lines.html?m=1

 

Part one has a good picture of his placement.  I'm planning on going this route with mine with a few changes incorporating the in tank pump and possibly the routing to the engine compartment area.

Thanks for the links Grabber70Mach, that looks like a good place to put it.

[Mach1 Driver 560]

17 hours ago, Grabber70Mach said:

I really like what Sven did on his 70 in his Night Mission 302 blog.

http://1970boss302.blogspot.com/2017/01/fuel-system-install-part-1-rear-soft.html?m=1

http://1970boss302.blogspot.com/2017/02/fuel-system-install-part-2-hard-lines.html?m=1

 

Part one has a good picture of his placement.  I'm planning on going this route with mine with a few changes incorporating the in tank pump and possibly the routing to the engine compartment area.

I don't like fuel hoses in the wheel wells. A shredded tire could cause a fire, and with a fuel pump at 50psi, it would be a whopper. A protective cover or hard lines through the torque box and wheel well would be lots safer. Also, his car doesn't have a vacuum canister in the way in the passenger side wheel well as mine does. Is that a 69 vrs 70 thing? That is a slight complication. Just saying- otherwise he does beautiful work.

[aslanefe 333]

3 hours ago, Mach1 Driver said:

 Also, his car doesn't have a vacuum canister in the way in the passenger side wheel well as mine does. Is that a 69 vrs 70 thing? That is a slight complication.

I believe vacuum canister in passenger wheel well is a factory AC thing, not 69 vs 70.

[Flanders 46]

I agree, I like his filter placement.  I'm not going to go banana's with all the fittings and transition from rubber to hard lines though.  I was going to go SS braided all the way through.  My brain says more fittings == more chances of something going wrong.  is it common to wrap the fuel lines with some kind of heat shield?  I think mine are going to have to come up and over the headers.

[Vicfreg 771]

I also don't like the fuel lines in the fenderwell, although that is the stock location (passenger side rear wheel well) that the fuel line goes through.  Mine are all stainless, or Earl's fuel line and fittings I made myself.

You can buy 3/8" SS lines that are pre-bent that will cover 90% of the installation.  That's what I did.