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My custom fuel setup


240zdan

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Decided I had enough of the fuel cell I installed and came up with this.

 

Specs:

Walbro 255 inline with 12awg wire

Carter 4594 gold lift pump

Edelbrock pre filter

2l ebay surge tank

 

Here is the original fuel cell. Fumes, fuel starvation when braking, lack of fuel guage, no trunk space. Out it goes!

 

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Trimmed the rest of the floor

 

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Original fuel door which I deleted long time ago is welded back in.

 

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This is the mount I came up with for the pumps and tank.

 

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Here it is mocked up with the new floor in place.

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Strap mount which replaces the original one

 

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Here is the floor welded in with an aluminum access panel. This will allow quick easy access to the pumps, wiring, and filter.

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Here what it looks like complete from the side. I had to fabricate some tank straps, used stainless steel.

 

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Heres a pic of the custom lenth tank straps. I has a piece of 16 gauge stainless sheared by a metal shop and measured up and fabricated the rest. Easy as pie.

 

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Heres what the floor looks like with the panel removed. Very easy to maintain this setup.

 

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Sigh. Now now, I just missed them on my phone.

 

I really like this idea, I think I may do something similar. What are you using for vapor control? 

 

The top most 3/8 fitting on the tank is used for fuel return. I found the 1/4" oem one was a bit small for my liking so I just capped it off and used the top one instead.

On the side of the tank near the exhaust, I capped off the fitting.

From the rear of the tank there is a 5/8 fitting that runs to the filler neck, from there I installed a 3 way tee and a 3/8 hose runs to a bulkhead fitting through the floor and exits out the bottom of the floor, venting any vapours to the atmosphere ;)

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The type of fuel cell that you removed are terrible for fuel delivery.  What you have created should work much better, but you could have achieved similar results with off the shelf parts.

 

A real fuel cell (ATL or Fuel Safe) can provide consistent fuel pressure under all conditions even when the fuel level gets really low.  I have an ATL SP112 cell with the ATL Black Box fuel pump and sump installed.  The cell is 12 gallons and is mounted below the rear deck.  

 

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The only real downside is that without a fuel sender, you do not know when you are low on fuel.

I ran an event last weekend and made five full autocross runs with out starvation.  Today I started the car in the garage and ran out of gas at idle.

The only use of gas from the last run until today was loading and unloading from the trailer.

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The type of fuel cell that you removed are terrible for fuel delivery.  What you have created should work much better, but you could have achieved similar results with off the shelf parts.

 

A real fuel cell (ATL or Fuel Safe) can provide consistent fuel pressure under all conditions even when the fuel level gets really low.  I have an ATL SP112 cell with the ATL Black Box fuel pump and sump installed.  The cell is 12 gallons and is mounted below the rear deck.  

 

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The only real downside is that without a fuel sender, you do not know when you are low on fuel.

I ran an event last weekend and made five full autocross runs with out starvation.  Today I started the car in the garage and ran out of gas at idle.

The only use of gas from the last run until today was loading and unloading from the trailer.

 

 

No doubt about, an ATL fuel cell with internal baffling would do the trick. The reason I didnt go this route:

I wanted my OEM fuel guage to work perfectly

Filling the car from the trunk is ridiculous for a street car, the fumes were making me a bit nauseous after leaving the pump.

I wanted to maintain the oem look and reclaim all my trunk space

 

Clean setup though! Works on a track car that's for sure, but not for me as my car is a daily driven street car.

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