Can you say ‘honey do’?
Sometimes life gets in the way. That’s not terrible, it’s only a delay.
Sometimes life gets in the way. That’s not terrible, it’s only a delay.
A Fabricobbler's Guide to the Turbo Buick Galaxy- Cutlass Rehash
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Haha, yep, the "if you give a mouse some cheese" scenario. Tub installation turned into a total bathroom remodel. I don't feel too bad about it, I still got stuff done, just slightly different stuff than I originally planned.
Glad to be in the garage again though!
You did a nice job on that bathroom. You undoubtedly increased the value of your home.
Built stub hoses to go from the tank to the filter and a splice for the return
Put on the vent hose and installed the tank.
Got the power harness built and connected in to the ground, power, and level signal wire.
Hopefully my filter mount shows up tomorrow and I can finish the fuel feed and return hoses to the engine.
Put on the vent hose and installed the tank.
Got the power harness built and connected in to the ground, power, and level signal wire.
Hopefully my filter mount shows up tomorrow and I can finish the fuel feed and return hoses to the engine.
Forward progress is glad to be seen.
But……..you damn kids and your in tank fuel pumps.
😉
But……..you damn kids and your in tank fuel pumps.
😉
There's plusses and minuses.
I like keeping the in tank pumps quiet and cool
But changing them when they die and getting really big flow is obviously tough
I'll agree anything faster than 10.50ish gets an external, at least for race duty. Street duty might warrant a second in tank 🙂
I have twin 450s in-tank, worked mint with the baffled T-type tank in my Cutlass. Staged with the Holley, nice and quite when driving to get groceries...
And hella fuel for the track <3
My brain has been doing its thing...
Brushless motors are nice since they can be slowed down for street driving and are just more efficient
Aeromotive gets almost $1300 for their brushless small pump (yikes)
You can get a new similar size cable/belt drive for almost 1/3 the price
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Buying an off the shelf brushless DC motor and controller isn't THAT expensive
I just need to dust off my pump HP calculations and size a motor that can run that pump.
I have a dream to build a split 18 gallon cell with 12 gallons for street and 6 gallons for race gas, Walbro 255 or so in the street size and a brushless DC on the race side, few ball valves to transfer fuel between the two as needed. Maybe one day when I get something that runs faster than 10's.....
Brushless motors are nice since they can be slowed down for street driving and are just more efficient
Aeromotive gets almost $1300 for their brushless small pump (yikes)
You can get a new similar size cable/belt drive for almost 1/3 the price
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Buying an off the shelf brushless DC motor and controller isn't THAT expensive
I just need to dust off my pump HP calculations and size a motor that can run that pump.
I have a dream to build a split 18 gallon cell with 12 gallons for street and 6 gallons for race gas, Walbro 255 or so in the street size and a brushless DC on the race side, few ball valves to transfer fuel between the two as needed. Maybe one day when I get something that runs faster than 10's.....
I admit, in hindsight of course, if and when I get into designing another system, this is going to be the way I go. The only duplication is in a couple of lines and a second pre-filter requirement for the external pump. The cool part about this is in the event of an in tank pump issue, the ability to swap pump control to change/swap the secondary to primary status with a butt connector and set of dikes in the trunk. Another cool function is to put a giant secondary pump to handle most everything.
I do like the dual fuel setup. A bunch of DW guys do this with a series of ball valves on the supply and return lines. Scott Brown runs this. It would make for an easy way to run C16 without wasting it on the street. But wasting C16 on the street is beginning to look better with current gas prices lol.
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