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Originally Posted by AAnton
My main questions on this are :
1. do you think this would work ?
2. how the heck do you get this in the tank ? (seems like a tight fit just for the OEM fuel pump assembly)
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1: I am sure it would work pretty well. But they really could have made this much nicer without any more work. Its build is lacking in features. I worry about it in higher HP cars, where it looks like it will block fuel from getting to the pump equally as well as it keeps fuel around the pump. It needs to have one way valves all around it so that fuel can get in easier. You could probably modify it though, to make it far better than it is in these pictures, quite easily. I have one-way doors and valves that would be pretty simple to attach to that sheet metal. You will want my billet top hat for that 100%, the extra weight of that stainless and all the fuel it can hold inside will no doubt break the stock plastic hat in short order.
2: This would definitely be placed into the tank in pieces, and assembled there. I have 3-4 prototypes of extremely similar ideas I played with over the years but never released (such as misc scrap left over that I just pulled out of my desk and attached in photo). My end conclusion with this type of product, was that I wound up feeling like it was silly to make this a flimsy drop-in unit; I would rather just drop the fuel tank from the car, cut the floor off the right side of the tank, weld in the proper baffles and one-way doors, then weld the floor back into the tank, and paint it black. Then all problems are solved at the root, and you can just run normal stock fuel pump assembly.