Where from, I need a quick fix to stop it surging on fast cornering. It surges at anything from half a tank of petrol or below


Is it just a case of stuffing the tank with foam, and can it be done in situ?


Thankenyou

 

i do believe you need to buy the tanks with the foam already in, its not like expanding faom that you use to insulate holes in brick work with...

 

........no man......shut up and tell him to go to b&q..........................the car will float soon.........

 

It's here, so it should be available in the U.K:

http://store.summitracing.com/egnsea...115+4294849078

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http://www.wickes.co.uk/invt/156667


sorry rads...


but this is the kinda thing that you mean i assume?
http://www.sm-engineering.co.uk/alloy_fuel_tank.php

 

I am the only serious one?

http://www.demon-tweeks.co.uk/produc...code=ATLSF103Y

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aint that for when you are making a fuel tank? also, if you put that in, it would just slosh about anyway, wouldnt it?? you would need to get the foam a little bigger than the largest area of the tank? i am being seriaous about it, i just havent heard of it where you can just throw it in your old tank...

 

So you cant just fill your old tank



Thanks

 

The foam has a limited life and has to be replaced even in filled cells, so it must be flexible enough to squeeze in through a small opening.

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the foam does not stop fuel surge at all, if you are suffering surge then it needs to be sorted properly, all the foam does is abosrbs the fuel to prevent masses of fuel loss all at once in accidents if the tank splits

 

And how do you sort fuel surge? a proper regulator?

 

a fuel swirl pot is needed to stop fuel starvation

 

i tried the lot years ago, a pukka foam mil spec tank, differant pickup points, differant pumps and non sorted it, in fact the foam actually fooked two brand new fuel pumps up in no time, swirl pot resolved the lot

 

and so easy and cheap to make too

 

very very true

 

Damn, wanted a quick fix...

What kinda price am I looking at to get a swirl pot/new pump fitted?

minus aeroquip, jubilee clips will do for now

 

Fuel tank foam isnt the solution, but it will be better than nothing.

I got a TON of it here if you wanted it.

 

foam didnt help the surge on mine but if you want to try it i pushed cubes down the filler neck...
http://www.merlinmotorsport.co.uk/FUEL-SYSTEMS-Tank-Foam/c26_27/p737/56-CUBES-TANK-FOAM-(CUBIC-FOOT)/product_info.html

if not i have a 4l proalloy swirl pot i had made for my cos that is not of any use to me now(brand new).

 

better link

http://www.merlinmotorsport.co.uk/FU..._27/index.html

 

Spot on! I read the post earlier an meant to say the same

 

try putting more than a fiver in it.



what car is it on??

 

Erm... I had a FULL tank, and through the day it ran out funny enough.... When it gets to half a tank it surges!


Nissan GTiR

 

there is a fuel swirl pot on ebay the now cheap get a bid in rads

 

dont suppose you can find the link , im watching a film lol

 

a just typed in fuel swirl pot and there was two of them.ps dont know how to put link up

 

Oh ok

 

most tanks have an internal collector maybe this has came away
should never surge with half a tank

 

It was a high speed corner I was doing at a track/activity day,around 80mph.. so maybe it wont be as bad on track?

 

Just use a separate swirl pot mounted under the car, I can do this if needed

 

it is quite possible i reckon

on track at ford fair last year (silverstone) i was in a group n fiesta st and done a few sessions, when it got to half a tank it surged like fook on the corner that leads onto the start/finish straight

but i broke the car later anyway so it didnt matter

 

Hoping to win a pot off fleabay in the morning

 

GTiR's seem to be common for this. My mates one did this on left hand bends under 1/3 of a tank....

 

you will need a low pressure high flow fuel pump like one of facets offerings. obviously check its capable of flowing enough fuel for the engine at full chat.

need to replumb the system slightly to mate, chuck in new wiring (relay/inertia switch etc) and you'll be away.

 

the low lift pump doesnt need to be and wont be enough to fuel a large turbocharged engine as all its doing is keeping the pot topped up

 

Agreed. Heard of this before too.......

 

Missed it by a fucking quid!

 

cheap skate

 

It wasnt me bidding I dont have an account

 

of course it needs to be able to flow as much as the high pressure pump. otherwise when the engines consuming more fuel that the poxy lift pump can supply, the pot will run dry and rad will end up with 3 and a 1/2 pistons instead of 4.

think before you type.

 

to be fair rad the other bidder could have bid £100 more than you, but the bids only go up by a quid at a time!