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    1. #1
      Join Date
      Mar 2009
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      Under Lake Michigan
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      Budget fuel tank ideas

      Hey everyone-
      I have a 79 TA that I've been auto crossing the last two or three years. It has a hopped up 350 SBC and a 350 auto trans. I made the switch to a used Holley commander 950 TBI kit. It uses an external pump. I have it mounted outside the tank (in front of it) and it feeds the efi through the stock line up to near the engine compartment where it has steel braided line to the TBI unit. Pretty basic and fairly staightforward.
      My problem is I've upgrade the suspension, tires, wheels and shocks enough that I can do pretty well. I've now burned up the first Walbro pump and put the hurting on a second one. I put a pressure guage on the car and confirmed its zero fuel pressure in hard corners with as much as 1/3 of a tank left in it. The easy answer is to run it with a full tank.
      But I'd like to see if anyone has put together a budget baffled tank that can still maintain adaquate fuel flow for my external fuel pump. I'm thinking of buying a new stock tank and adding a fuel sump to the rear and a couple of baffles inside when its opened up for the sump install. I am a competent welder so the biggest issue is a proven design that works and doesnt cost $500 for just a tank. I have another fuel pump that I plan on using for a future upgrade (possible turbo 5.3 LM4) and need to have good fuel flow anyway so a sump with large fittings is probably a must.



      So with that- what ideas work best?

      Thanks !

      Mike
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