Well I got some time to pull off the tank and make a sump for the tank. Here are a couple of pics.








Modified by onefstek at 4:10 PM 5/20/2006

 

Nice work. Looks good

 

I wish I would have taken a few pics before I welded the sump on.

What I did, is drilled three 2.5" holes in the oem tank, so I have some kind of baffeling between the sump and the oem tank.

 

looks good.

stupid question... Why do you have to baffle it?

 

Good work, looks nice!

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stupid question... Why do you have to baffle it?</TD></TR></TABLE>

So the fuel doesn't "jump" out of the sump between shifts.

 

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So the fuel doesn't "jump" out of the sump between shifts.</TD></TR></TABLE>

Yes thats why you want to have some kind of baffles, that way the fuel dosent run all the way forward when shifting, or cornering.

 

cool. thanks for clearing that up, I kinda figured it had something to do with the movement of the gas.

 

no problem.

I also have to say, that the project was easyer than I thought it was going to be.

 

is your gas tank gauge going to read inaccurately now?

 

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I guess its going to read a bit different, im going to have a bit more gas than what the gauge shows.

 

Today, I got the fuel pump and filter installed, and routed the fuel line to the eng. bay.

 

good work

 

looking good man! BTW what kinda of car is this? looks kinda like a EK maybe

 

yes this is for my Ek.

 

why not a fuel cell, i mean it looks great man but youd be able to shave some weight taking out the tank.

 

^^^ I would have done a fuel cell, but the car is still a daly driver and when I race, I am not allowed a fuel cell in my class.

 

Nice work man

 

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You need to have the pump at the same height or lower than the sump.... This is the purpose if sumping the tank because it is not a puller type pump that you are using. You will see that you will have fuel feed problems.

With the way you have it setup now (about the halfway mark up the tank is about where the pump is mounted) you will have to maintain more that a half tank of fuel to have a positive pressure at the pump inlet.

All in all just lower the pump and you will be straight.

I will be doing this next week with the same setup as you, but in a DC2.

 

and a quick update on the pics.

 

are you running a K series? or did you keep the return line at the top where the original pump goes?

 

^^^ im going to run the oem feed line as a return.

 

ahh ok. i see

 

what do you think about the pumps location as stated above? is this going to be a problem for you?

 

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I dont' think its going to be a problem. I tested the pump to see if it works, when I had the car's rear end on jacks. I put it about 3 gallons of gas in the tank and it pumped out allmost all of it. But I will have to see how it works in the real world.

I also seen many drag cars that have the pump higher than the fuel cell, and never created a problem for them. So I really think im going to be ok. I really want to keep the pump as high off the goround as I can.

When I do go race, I usually keep about half of tank of gas. That way I have enough for the whole afternoon. So I don't have to pay the real expensive gas prices at the track.

 

nice work.