Originally Posted by Slash
Dude... the entire rail should always be filled... i mean there isnt air in there or open space.. It wouldnt be "under pressure" if there was open space for it to slosh around and the car would never run right.. Personally I can be almost POSITIVE that its because your buddies ITR was bogging down while trying to push the engine "against itself" during a slide. Fuel pressure does not become a problem with side loads unless the load is great enough and the fuel level low enough that nothing actually goes into the pump. But the only time ive EVER heard of this happening, is cars on slicks, going onto a circle track for the first time, without proper fuel tank modification, and under 2 gallons in the tank.
Seriously guys, where do you come up with this stuff sometimes. I mean sliding gives far less lateral G than the same car giving itself the best rate of turn it can provide at say 50mph. So who would buy an ITR if the engine shut off when it was providing .82 lateral G on a skidpad.. I mean the car would be complete junk if that happened.
I'm sorry, i'll stop ranting, but just use your heads sometimes guys.
</rant post that comes from answering tech calls at 9AM then seeing this>
UH...Good explination Bill Nine! You stick with your theory and I stick with mine. So explain why when doing left "Side Load" will cause a engine to stall on a ITR and a Accord and not a Right "Side Load" Theoretically the load is the same but in opposite directions. But the fuel pressure is designed to stay consistant with no excessive pressure build up. Well if you hold a bucket of water 3 inches above the ground and your shift left, the weight shifts right and it requires more pressure to move the bucket of water back to the left, right? so where the fuel rale requires 20 psi to MAINTAIN fuel pressure you now require 25-30psi to keep the flow to equal in the fuel rale where the pump was only designed to provide 20Psi? so there fore your starving the engine of fuel under a side load and it is stalling out. This all assuming the fuel supply is feed from one side of the rail.