A fuel
system for delivering
liquid fuel to a
combustion chamber of an
internal combustion engine includes a port fuel
injector in an air intake communicating with the
combustion chamber, a first fuel rail containing pressurized
liquid fuel in communication with the port fuel
injector, a direct fuel
injector arranged to inject fuel directly into the
combustion chamber, second fuel rail containing pressurized
liquid fuel in communication with the direct injector, a high-pressure
fuel pump having a high-pressure outlet in communication with the second fuel rail, a
regulator valve in communication with the high-pressure outlet and the first fuel rail, the
regulator valve controllable to reduce a fuel pressure of fuel delivered to the first fuel rail relative to a fuel pressure at said high-pressure outlet; and a
control system configured with computer-readable instructions
executable to monitor fuel pressure in the first fuel rail, and control the
regulator valve to deliver fuel to the first fuel rail to maintain a predetermined quantity of fuel at said predetermined pressure in the first fuel rail.