Air in your system is the enemy! To protect your fuel system and ensure peak performance, follow these essential steps after every race and during storage.
Post-Race Procedure:
Prevent Aeration During Transport
Before hauling your vehicle home after a race:
- Refill your fuel cell completely to the top.
- Cap off the fuel cell vent.
This helps prevent air from entering and aerating your fuel system during transport.
Between Race Weekends:
If your vehicle will sit for more than 7 to 10 days, follow these steps to keep your system race-ready:
- Start the car for a couple of minutes upon returning home to ensure no aeration has occurred.
- Turn the car off and top off the fuel cell.
- Cap the vent on the fuel cell.
- Start the vehicle once a week to circulate fresh fuel through the system.
Long-Term Storage and Maintenance:
For storage longer than 10 days, or if you need to open the fuel system for maintenance:
Remove injectors from the intake.
- Use a soft rubber-tip air gun to blow clean, compressed air into the tip of each injector. (Back-flushing will not damage the injectors; it simply removes all fuel.)
- Spray a petroleum-based lubricant (we recommend PB Blaster) into the top of each injector.
- Install the provided dust caps to seal the injectors and create a moisture barrier.
With these steps, your injectors can be safely stored for years without fear of corrosion.
Initial Start-Up: Using Our Injectors for the First Time
To ensure a successful first start:
- Prepare new fuel lines to replace your fuel rails.
- Run 5 gallons of fuel through the system with the return line disconnected and directed into a jug. Use a paint strainer to filter the fuel.
- Clean the fuel rails thoroughly.
- Reinstall the fuel rails and injectors.
- Add clean fuel to your fuel cell.
- Remove spark plugs and roll the engine over with ignition off to ensure no fuel is coming out of the spark plug holes.
- Reinstall spark plugs and start the engine.
Additional Tips and Important Notes
- Use lightweight ATF (automatic transmission fluid) on injector O-rings during installation.
- Do not use WD-40; it is not petroleum-based and will not protect your injectors from corrosion.
- Never pulse the injectors by adding voltage to clear them of fuel.
- Check your 10-micron fuel filter after every race and replace it after every four races.
Proper fuel system maintenance is key to long-term performance and reliability. If you have any questions, our team is always here to help.
Drop us a line:
757-250-3773 or sales@atomizerfuelcomponents.com