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Hard to tell in the picture, but is the frame in the way of the fuel ports?
Do you have to use both on the Sniper (feed/return)?
Fortunately for me I only had to run a feed, because I could only access 1 port.

We needed special fittings for the connection to the fuel ports if I understand your question.

And yes we are using the return line also....

Yeah, you got it. An AN90* fitting probably wouldn't work. Looking forward to seeing it come together.

You putting the pump in tank?

Jack wrote:Yeah, you got it. An AN90* fitting probably wouldn't work. Looking forward to seeing it come together.

You putting the pump in tank?

No we are not Jack.

This is what we bought..essentially the Holley Sniper Master kit but we did it in two stages..the fuel pump and filters are coming seperately in a kit in about 10 days..kit was supposed to land today BUT Holley is short product I guess..


http://www.jegs.com/i/Holley/510/550-510K/10002/-1

Cables all hooked up, Aircleaner installed..now the waiting game for the fuel pump...

Looks good!
Not sure if you were considering it, but the Barbarian guys looked to have put their fuel pump and filters right in the V of the valley of the motor between intake and valve cover. I've considered it for a long time, then once I saw that was how they were doing it I may just try it.
You have a ton of room on a trike to keep the pump away from heat and easy to access, but I don't know how much fuel line you want running around. Just a thought.

Jack wrote:Looks good!
Not sure if you were considering it, but the Barbarian guys looked to have put their fuel pump and filters right in the V of the valley of the motor between intake and valve cover. I've considered it for a long time, then once I saw that was how they were doing it I may just try it.
You have a ton of room on a trike to keep the pump away from heat and easy to access, but I don't know how much fuel line you want running around. Just a thought.

There is lots of room to work installing a pump on the trike behind the motor and beside the tranny...trikes are a plus.

Yesterday we installed a seperate simple fuel pump for the Reserve tank. It will pump into the Main when I run low on the Main. The FI will ALWAYS feed off the Main tank only. This simplifies the FI system and eliminates the need to feed a return line to the reserve tank.

I forgot to mention that besides changing the intake manifold I also was talked into roller rockers....it is only money...lol

Dang...no shipping of the fuel pump and kit from Holley until next week...

I got to the shop after 1pm this afternoon and could hear a familiar lumpy idle / rumble in the Service side.

The Holley Fi fuel pump and lines showed unexpectedly early this morning and the guys had been running and tuning for about an hour when I get there..

Here is a video of the 502 purring...keep in mid you can't hear it real well because the stuck the exhaust tips out the door and close the door on the frame...it was -10 here today so too cold to test and tune outside. Idle was set at 650 today..see where we endup.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tXG7HeVI6C0

YAHOOOO!!! Needs some road time too but so far it is so fucking good!!

Thats great news.

Need a long test ride now

V8Norm wrote:Thats great news.

Need a long test ride now

Yes indeed Norm....won't be long before the streets are clear and temps are good for a test ride..even 10 days to 2 weeks I am cool waiting

Nice!

Pics of the fuel system completed yet?

Jack wrote:Nice!

Pics of the fuel system completed yet?

OK..I will try and remember tomorrow to take a few more shots...

Your 502 sounds great Barry ! I hope that it preforms as well on your test ride ! Have you heard anything from Brian Macey yet ? It will be interesting to see the cost difference and advantages between your system and Brian's ! Craig H.

craig haymaker wrote:Your 502 sounds great Barry ! I hope that it preforms as well on your test ride ! Have you heard anything from Brian Macey yet ? It will be interesting to see the cost difference and advantages between your system and Brian's ! Craig H.

Thanks Craig..I have not heard...have asked here a couple times...I know Brian is busy for sure...hopefully we can get an update real soon.

A demo for me is probably within 2 weeks if the weather goes to what the forecast says...if not I am not worried...

A few hours in the saddle will be a better indication once it really warms up versus a 15 or 30 minute jaunt I beleive...

Here is the fuel pump installed...they put the tank on so I was not able to take any more pics of the Fi body and the lines

Nice Barry!
I take it the fuel flows from the left side of the picture to the right? Is that the brass T fitting to connect the tanks?

Thanks for the pic.

Yes...we eliminated the cross over and we "t'd" the lines at the back of the tank that way the front of the tank can be raised easily.

We also have a return line plumbed into the tank.

We used the petcock as an inlet for pumping the fuel from the Reserve to the Main tank. There is no way to screw up overfilling the Main from the reserve as the Petcock needs to be on AND the reserve pump needs to be on. This was done because we are running the FI seperate off the Main only as I described previously.

Hey Barry, are you shipping it to Florida for Bike Week?

Triker wrote:Hey Barry, are you shipping it to Florida for Bike Week?

Triker,

The shipping window "if" I wanted to do that is gone unfortunately BUT I want to get it there for sure sometime.

Also the Fi needs some road time to be absolutely sure everything it 100% before buggering off that far from home. it will be good but just to get piece of mind in its workings.

Maybe I should ship it there for Biketoberfest this fall and leave it for 2018 March BikeWeek would make more sense...get my most bang for the buck in shipping..

It would be just awesome to run that mother around Daytona...

Thank you

Cool shot today by one of my Parts guys who is into photography

That is a cool shot!

What size rear wheels are on your trike Barry?

Triker wrote:What size rear wheels are on your trike Barry?

They are 18's...I had 20's on for 2 years then went to 18 last summer so I could run lower pressures..

The rubber is 255/60 - 18 which gives me about 11% or so of an overdrive if you like from stock...drops rpms at highway about 300 which is awesome...