[Diy_efi] Re: Diy_efi Digest, Vol 30, Issue 13

[Bill Washington]

Clair,
    If you were going to get a new steel tank, could the manufacturers 
could they adjust the fittings, holes, necks etc to your specification 
at manufacture?
It would obviously cost a bit more to have it customised in this way, 
but it may be the best alternative, by the time you spend days or weeks 
trying to do it yourself ...
just a thought.
Bill
>
> Wow, this idea has got some legs, at least with respect to discussing the
> options out there.  Great stuff!
>
> To be honest, I hadn't considered welding on the plastic tank until adding a
> fitting somewhere other than the stock filler location started to seem
> reasonable.  I would like whatever changes I made to the tank to be
> abso-friggin-lutely STUCK, and stay that way in case something strange or
> unfortunate happened.  Plus, since I'll occasionally be racing this car in
> autoX competitions, I don't want anything TOO strange to upset the tech
> inspectors.  Clearly, I've got some homework ahead of me before I delve in
> to welding any plastic bits to the tank.  It DOES have some handles attached
> to it (nice idea) that appear to be the same material.  We'll see how this
> goes.
>
> With regards to the steel tank, I won't be modifying my existing tank.  It's
> 38 years old, and in decent shape for what it is, but it's not ideal for any
> EFI setup.  Just cycling the fuel through the filters on a return system
> tends to clog them after a few hours, so I know there is a rust problem in
> the tank now.  It was pretty nice 6-7 years ago, though.  SO, I'd be getting
> a brand new reproduction gas tank from Quanta or one of their resellers,
> cost is in the $160-200 range.  These are nice pieces, and are stamped from
> Ni-terne coated steel.  I'm ASSuming that this is the "tinning" that was
> mentioned earlier, with the addition of a flash-coat of nickel to improve
> the terne coating adhesion.  If soldering/tinning will do the trick, that
> sounds better to me than welding - plastic OR steel.
>
> I'll try to get my photos of the tanks uploaded to my web pages so y'all can
> see what the two tanks look like.  That should help to see what I've got to
> work with.
>
> Clair
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