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I did my engine bay fuel lines in my 85 Carrera over the last year. Bought the Griffiths lines (some from Griffiths, some from Pelican).

Procrastinated for a while because I new it would be a little work to pull the intake. But last Fall my fuel pressure regulator failed, so I did the rear line (between the regulator and damper) in the car. Talk about working blind—it was difficult but doable. Also replaced the short J-hose from the regulator to the return line at that time.

This summer I bit the bullet and pulled the intake to do the ‘tee’ feed line. Hardest part was scraping the old gaskets off the intake ports on the heads (back-breaking). This did allow me to fix the routing of the vacuum lines etc on the back of the intake, that I couldn’t see well when I did the rear lines. I also got to clean up the top of the engine (nice). The Griff lines fit great and look good.

I did have to remove the left fuel rail to route the tail of the ‘tee’ over to the fuel filter. This led me to replacing the seals on the injectors (they were the originals) which led me to replace the seals on the other fuel rail. Sourcing those seal kits was a pain.

For the final bit I got a ‘repair kit’ for the return line from Len Cummings (BoxsterGT on this forum) which replaces the rubber part of that line, leaving the original hard line in place. I decided I didn’t want to mess with the connection to the plastic lines coming out of the tunnel.

So all in all this was a little bit of effort, but the peace of mind was worth it.


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