New Fuel Tank

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Well I spent the morning at Proalloy having one of their long range anti surge fuel tanks fitted.
As with all of the items they make it looked really good, almost to good to hide away where it will never see the light of day again.
It was a job that would be possible on the floor but I wouldn’t suggest it.
Remove the O/S rear wheel and arch liner to take off the pipes running to the filler neck, these are one use jubilee clip so make sure you have new ones.

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When you have dropped the tank it was very awkward to remove the pump harness and pipes, obviously we could have first removed the interior to use the access panel in the tub we chose not too as time was limited.

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After removing the old tank there are a pair of black foam blocks you need to pull off the car. Once removed peal off the white pieces of foam from them and stick them to the tub of the car where the black foam blocks came from (sorry forgot to take a photo) remove the sender and pump and install in the new tank. You now no longer need the white spacer below the pump as it is built into the new tank.

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There was a good weight saving of over 4kg to.

The guage now reads a bit strange as the first 2 or 3 gallons used don’t register any fuel used but then it reads like normal, main bonus is no more fuel starvation on left hand corners when you have less than half a tank. I will have to test for definite but I think the tank now holds about 54 litres.

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Very nice, bet you cant find any fuel to put in it now

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Hi Ade, so is the new tank road legal? or is it techincally a “race tank”?

Very tempting upgrade… rough idea of cost?

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That looks too nice to hide away- can’t they roof or spoiler mount it?!!

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Not sure of the legalities of the tank best ask the guys that make it Nobody will ever see it anyway so how would they know
AFAIK they are �540+VAT

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Bl**y hell Ade, just when I think there is nothing left to do…it’s getting very close to the D-vorce stage in my house mate…4kg hey…oh it’s a toughie!

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Bl**y hell Ade, just when I think there is nothing left to do…it’s getting very close to the D-vorce stag in my house mate…4kg hey…oh it’s a toughie!

Here is the link to their site Linky

I have more stuff planned for my car and I thought I had finished as well