240zdan Posted December 13, 2015 Share Posted December 13, 2015 (edited) 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! Trimmed the rest of the floor Original fuel door which I deleted long time ago is welded back in. This is the mount I came up with for the pumps and tank. Here it is mocked up with the new floor in place. Strap mount which replaces the original one Here is the floor welded in with an aluminum access panel. This will allow quick easy access to the pumps, wiring, and filter. Here what it looks like complete from the side. I had to fabricate some tank straps, used stainless steel. 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. Heres what the floor looks like with the panel removed. Very easy to maintain this setup. Edited December 13, 2015 by 240zdan Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
NCchris Posted December 14, 2015 Share Posted December 14, 2015 Nice job! Always seems to take more time and money to do things right! chris Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
LLave Posted December 14, 2015 Share Posted December 14, 2015 What is the fuel tank out of? Any pics of your surge tank and where you mounted it? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
wrcbonk Posted December 15, 2015 Share Posted December 15, 2015 That SS strap is very nice, cool fuel delivery setup. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
240zdan Posted December 21, 2015 Author Share Posted December 21, 2015 What is the fuel tank out of? Any pics of your surge tank and where you mounted it? LOL. sigh. Refer to the pics I posted. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
LLave Posted December 22, 2015 Share Posted December 22, 2015 LOL. sigh. Refer to the pics I posted. 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? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
240zdan Posted December 23, 2015 Author Share Posted December 23, 2015 (edited) 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 Edited December 23, 2015 by 240zdan Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
74_5.0L_Z Posted December 24, 2015 Share Posted December 24, 2015 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. 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. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
240zdan Posted December 26, 2015 Author Share Posted December 26, 2015 (edited) 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. CellAccessPanel2.jpeg Cell Rear.jpeg CellAccessPanel.jpeg Cell Side.jpeg CellAccessPanel1.jpeg Whitehouse2.jpg 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. Edited December 26, 2015 by 240zdan Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
74_5.0L_Z Posted December 26, 2015 Share Posted December 26, 2015 Yeah, If mine was a street driven car, the fuel cell would not be fun. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
240zdan Posted April 15, 2016 Author Share Posted April 15, 2016 some updates. ev14s going in next. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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