jcghia69 Learner Dubber
5 posts · joined Mar 2010 ·
Sides Veteran Volks Folk
2,220 posts · joined May 2007 ·
1303Steve Scirocco Rare
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essex Officially Full-On Dubber
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bigtrev Learner Dubber
2 posts · joined Feb 2010 ·
Sides wrote:Are you planning on racing it ???
Not tried it on a Ghia, but had trouble fitting a decent sized fuel cell in the front of a bug... the standard tank shape meant needed odd shaped/sized cells, and plumbing supply and return lines was a pain. Also possibly an issue if you want to keep it legal for rego... at least in Qld there's a rule that says that you can't change how the tank is filled, so if it has an external fuel filler (pretty sure a 69 KG does ?) then you'd need an externally filled fuel cell too...so yeah, that pretty much put paid to my thinking of having a fuel cell in the bug.
Something I did find out though (but haven't done yet) is that you can just buy the foam filling in block form from places like Revolution RaceGear... idea being shove it down through the fuel sender opening or filler neck, and gradually fill as much of the tank up as possible... nice simple way of getting most of the benefit !!!
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bigtrev Learner Dubber
2 posts · joined Feb 2010 ·
You are right Sides, in qld you must have the filler externally if it was originally external. ( This is my first attempt at a post, so I hpoe I did it right)Sides wrote:Are you planning on racing it ???
Not tried it on a Ghia, but had trouble fitting a decent sized fuel cell in the front of a bug... the standard tank shape meant needed odd shaped/sized cells, and plumbing supply and return lines was a pain. Also possibly an issue if you want to keep it legal for rego... at least in Qld there's a rule that says that you can't change how the tank is filled, so if it has an external fuel filler (pretty sure a 69 KG does ?) then you'd need an externally filled fuel cell too...so yeah, that pretty much put paid to my thinking of having a fuel cell in the bug.
Something I did find out though (but haven't done yet) is that you can just buy the foam filling in block form from places like Revolution RaceGear... idea being shove it down through the fuel sender opening or filler neck, and gradually fill as much of the tank up as possible... nice simple way of getting most of the benefit !!!
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Sides Veteran Volks Folk
2,220 posts · joined May 2007 ·
Ouch !!!1303Steve wrote:The foam breaks down after a while, the tank in my sons bug was out of my car and it was foam filled. When it broke down it actually made the inlet valves stick open.
Steve
