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Subject:Re: Reason for Saddle-shaped gas tank
From:Sudhir Desai
Date:Sun, 24 Sep 2006 13:00:49 -0400

ATL makes amazing custom fuel bladders/cells (what Skip Barber Racing
School uses on their cars). They might be a bit expensive though.

Sudhir

On 9/23/06, Jake de Villiers <crescentbeachguitar@gmail.com> wrote:
> Well if you wanted to get serious, you'd get a race car type fuel cell and
> be done with it.  No rusting, no leaks, no problem.  We had a custom bladder
> made for our car but it was so long ago I don't remember where. Tilton might
> be a good start, or Google.
>
> On 9/23/06, Robert Fisher <refisher@mchsi.com> wrote:
> >
> > You would think that out of all of the gas tanks manufactured in this
> > world
> > there would be one that had a larger capacity (i.e. no valley) and the
> > (approximate) appropriate dimensions...
> > I was looking at my stepdad's Cadillac... the filler is on the rear
> > driver's
> > side, and the outlets of course go towards the front of the car, so if you
> > flipped it around you'd have the various holes near the general required
> > locations.
> > I spent a little time looking online some time ago but I didn't have the
> > measurements and I wasn't real motivated about it at that point but I'm
> > eventually going to have to deal with the condition of the tank and its
> > extremities just as so many others have done. There has to be an adaptable
> > near-bolt in solution out there and unless I'm missing something it
> > shouldn't be that complicated. What would be the main pros and cons to
> > consider?
> >
> > Robert
> >
>
>
>
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> Jake
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