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tholyoak · 03-06-2009, 06:18 AM

If it is a red/black and purple wire it is for the tank venting valve or evap valve depending on what you want to call it.

Also, if I were you i'd seriously reconsider using the early 3-point motor mount. There is a reason Porsche changed the design when the motors go larger. If you want to rebuild one I have a couple 4-point mounts kicking around I'll be happy to send you one for the cost of shipping.

-Todd

JAAY · 03-06-2009, 08:59 AM

I believe that is the colors. I'm at work now. I'll look later. I still don't see anyhting to plug it in to. Am I missing something.

tholyoak · 03-06-2009, 09:19 AM

Yes, there is a hose that runs from the throttle body to a small electric valve that this connector regulates. This in turn attaches to the chassis and runs up to the evap system by the fuel filler. The valve is probably still mounted to the intake manifold on your old engine.

-Todd

JAAY · 03-06-2009, 10:44 AM

Damn it!..

You're always right. Still bolted to the bottom of my manifold. Thanks once again.

JAAY · 03-11-2009, 02:42 PM

I went to my local fittings place and had my fuel lines figured out. This is what I came up with. As it looks right now I am only going to be using the fittings on the left side of the photo.

Put together fuel feed.

Fuel feed on thee 996 rail and fuel feed hose on it.

JAAY · 03-11-2009, 02:53 PM

The little black fitting in the lower right corner of the photos is our stock fuel return connection. I was going to use this but then looking further into how I am going to make these connections I don't think that is a good choice. I stripped back the factory lines off the rails. There are barb fittings on them. I am going to run a new fuel line off the return barb straight to the factory fitting that is metal. It is a nice tight fit as it is but I am going to put a hose clamp on it. For the fuel feed you can see the photo of the fitting that I put together to run from the 996 rail over the motor to the factory fuel line. The factory fuel feed line I also took off the factory line and stripped it back to just the metal line. I am going to just run new fuel hose over to that metal line and clamp that also. Sorry for my terrible sentence structure.

The photo below if you look on the outer left side of the rail, by the way this is now the drivers side of the motor this will be on, on the outer side you will see the old welded on return rail. I am bypassing this just to save on connections. I figure the fewer the better. So now the return line is coming directly from the fuel pressure regulator side.

tholyoak · 03-11-2009, 03:01 PM

I would reconsider ditching the factory fitting for the return line on the chassis. It works just fine with aeroquip -4 socketless hose and putting a hose directly on the metal line under the car is not a good idea IMHO. It is a smooth pipe with no raised surface or barbing for the hose clamp to. Smooth hose on smooth pipe clamp or not does not make for a good solution, especially when fuel is involved. Especially when it points right at the exhaust headers.

-Todd