Well, buddy was buying some exhaust for his AE86, and the guy selling him the exhaust system was also selling a 20gal aluminum fuel cell, foam filled, and even has a sending unit. $100.

Good deal.

So, aluminum fuel cell, and a L28ET in a week. Life is getting better. When I get some pictres uploaded, I will start a build thread.

 

thats a huge cell....

 

so i guess it was used? what's the time on those before the foam starts falling apart and clogging your filter?

 

Nice dude. Just a gallon less than the stock gas tank.

 

less? i thought the Z tanks were like 15 gallons.

 

Not in the S130's bro. They were 21 gallon tanks. I never got 21 gallons in it but that's what my FSM, and Hayne's tells me. The earlier one's did though.

 

well.... this is going in a 260Z so... technically im right. lol. the S130 he has is a donor car

 

Lol ok. noted

 

Tank was never used. Little dust on the top was all.
Not worried about the foam, I could change it out if I wanted to in the future pretty easy.

It's bigger than I was wanting, but still really light, and will work good on road trips. I have been working on 4 gallons because of the current condition of my fuel tank. Been driving me nuts since I got the 260Z.

 

Fuel Cell installed!!!

Not the way I want. I don't have access to the materials needed to build the cage yet. No money. But, I have to have it installed with an inline pump for the turbo engine.

I have fought that friggen OEM tank and the lining in it for a year now. No more. This is my single favorite mod to date.

It's bolted in the rear of the car, and I drilled a hole through the spare wheel well for the fuel line and used grommets for the time being.

 

hmmm..... GHETTO!!!! :P

 

Tell me... What is more ghetto?
Using the screwed up factory tank that holds 15 gallons, but uses 4 before sucking air and constantly introducing dirty fuel and clogging the system due to a cheap lining installed by the P.O., or using a new fuel cell that works perfect the way it is temporarily set up?

I go with option 2. I will get to see what it is like to drive more than 80 miles and not be running our of gas even though it's in the tank.

 

lol you couldnt drill out the spot welds and just make U brackets to hold it up? then fab a sheet to fit cover the hole? but to each is it own. throw some pics up

 

This is a 20gal cell. Not sure you guys are getting the mental picture. I will get pictures up when I can. Maybe e-mail some with my phone to myself. I don't have personal internet.

The cell will not fit where the original tank did. Nor do I want it to. It will look good when I finish it, and give me the clearance I want to have a center exit rear exhaust. You guys need not to worry about it being ghetto. It's installed in a way that it will not fail me now. I don't have a garage, welder, and square stock to build the cage for the fuel cell with.

Look into the recent thread with johnZboy
https://www.zdriver.com/forums/showt...ight=Roll+Cage

That is what I will do when I can. Until then, it's soul purpose is to work better than what I had, and it has been a 100% success.

Just happy to not have fuel problems now.

 

Haha I'm just ducking with you

 

Hard to tell sometimes. You have a lot of opinions. lol

 

I put in 20.5 gallons in when I had just bought the car and had no idea about the size of the tank. Had the pump going on auto and walked away, when I saw how much went in I fully expected there to be huge pool of gas underneath

 

Dude, for about $100 you could have just had your factory tank cleaned and resealed professionally...

Don't get me wrong, that was a great deal on a 20 gallon cell, but you shouldn't have had to suffer all this time...

 

There are places around me that would do it. But, I didn't want the down time while they did it. And, the way I want my car setup I would rather have a nice cell. I will also shave the outside fuel door for an even better looking Z.

 

where dem pics be boy? I's be gettin mighty angry wif out my pics...

 

this.

holy hell. lol

I've been doing hho research for like two years. that stuff rocks.

 

ummm... what?

 

that cell size would be freaking huge?

 

you know he was talking about a fuel cell right?

and btw hho fails majorly ftl...

ima put me some wires and lunch treys and some whattar in dis cup and add elektroicity and make sum hydrogens to put in my engine!!!! yayyy!!!!

 

**** nvm lol wow that was embarassing fuel cell...as in giant aluminum box to hold gasoline... wow ... lol


I referred to hho fuel cells.

theres a lot of progress with them under a vacuum, but we will never get to the point of hho cars.

I've been practicing my hypermiling technique in my Z