| Author | Message | ||
     Ratbuell |
OK. My project car - bought it in '92, it's been a grocery getter, a hi-12/lo-13 second street car, a cruiser, and is currently undergoing a carbureted-smallblock-to-EFI-genIII-hemi-swap - is a 1972 Plymouth Satellite Custom station wagon. Yeah. A wagon. I also have a factory turbo minivan. You gotta problem with that?  Anyway. One "feature" of the 71-74 B-body wagons was the fuel tank placement. Not under the trunk. Not under the rear seat. It's...IN the drivers quarter panel, upright, like a suitcase. Which is fine...except they didn't put any sort of skidplate or debris shield under it, so anything the tire kicks up (and with 500hp and a suregrip rear, the tires kick up a LOT) pings off the bottom of the tank. And puts pinholes in it. Which makes it fairly ineffective as a liquid vessel. I have an un-bent tank that can be used as a template. Anyone up for burning together a fresh tank, with a modified (i.e. rear bottom corner) pickup point for an external fuel pump? Suitcase box, direct-mount filler spout, one hole for the gauge sender which would include the return line, and a new rear-bottom hole for pickup (push the fluid to the back under acceleration, pick up from there to prevent starvation). | ||
| Etennuly |
I'll be your huckle berry if no one closer can help you. I know these tanks in the ol wagons. Used to patch rust pitted bottoms in them in Northern Pa body shops. Had to use the old bumper air jacks to get the ass of the car high enough to get them out. Yep, like a vertical suitcase! I would like to cut the bottom off, make a new bottom with a slope to that rear corner, with a few liquid control baffles, and insert some fuel cell foam. Finish the inlet with fuel cell plate, fittings, and filler. Or we could just get a racing fuel cell to mount in the under floor tire or seat well. | ||
| Tootal |
Or just rub the bottom of it with a bar of soap and call it done! | ||
| Etennuly |
I have a line on a real good high pressure high volume fuel pump. Can't recall the name right now. Ill get that to you later. Are you going to AN fittings? Pricy but good stuff. | ||
| 86129squids |
Where in the HEYULL is that popcorn emoticon?? | ||
| Ourdee |
I got a popcorn for you too Brad.   | ||
| 1313 |
And, exactly just what is 'wrong' with a wagon? | ||
| Orman1649 |
just fill it all the way to the top with gas and let it rip. | ||
| Ratbuell |
Nothing's wrong with a wagon. People look at me funny though (of course, they do that regardless of what I'm driving...) Vern - might take you up on that, I'll keep you posted! Not sure about going -AN; I have good hardlines from back to front - the car is amazingly rust-free for the age - but in the name of future expansion I may have one put on the tank when its built. Can't really fill it to the top - it's swiss-cheese on the bottom. And I like the stock trunk - this is a 2 row seat car; they made 3 row cars, but the 2 rows still have a flip-up trunk floor and a HUGE storage cavern underneath that I want to keep as a HUGE storage cavern. Easy way out would be to drop a cell in there and be done, but what fun is it to take the easy way out? | ||
| Etennuly |
I got ya. Still to be the stock looking street/show wagon that can make fast passes. I don't know if you know, but AN fittings are available that have adaptable fittings to fit to steel lines and braided hoses. | ||
| Greg_e |
How big of a cell could you fit in the stock location? | ||
| Doz |
"back in the day" used to remove-flush- dry and then fill them with exhaust gas from another car, Then weld em up. no boom! | ||
| Ourdee |
I believe this one has become too thin for welding to be an option unless you lay down a pad over the whole lower half. Ratbuell, As much as you love the beast, have an aluminum fuel cell made that matches the old steel tank. I would guess that your first volunteer could do that. Best of both worlds. (Saves the third row hidey hole for a couple of turbos plumbed back to the front. Or scuba tanks for air boost. Just dreaming for you now) | ||
| Bandm |
https://www.summitracing.com/parts/rci-2171a/overv iew/ Summit has 57 different sizes, for the price modifying one of these will be way cheaper than starting from scratch. https://www.summitracing.com/search/brand/rci-raci ng/product-line/rci-aluminum-fuel-cells?SortBy=Def ault&SortOrder=Ascending | ||
| Ratbuell |
Oh, I'm not against a new cell....I just want it in the quarter panel, not under the trunk. That's the beer cooler. I think we had eight or nine cases back there in college, iced and chilled. Thank God for Gabriel air shocks! | ||
| Blake |
Joe, You never cease to engage, entertain, and amaze. Need photos though, starting with high school!  | ||
| Ratbuell |
Nah, high school was a hand-me-down Cutlass until I bought my '91 Daytona turbo. The wagon came along during my second (ahem) freshman year of college. As she sits now - original F7 Sherwood Green Metallic paint on the hood, roof, and tailgate; primer on the sides to cover some ding patchwork and trim removal holes:  | ||
| Pwnzor |
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