Anybody Ever Cut A Fuel Pump Access Panel?

eighty5fox · Feb 22, 2018

Ive seen it done before curious if anyone else has done it. Im planning on doing it and making a nice panel with a seal on it. Heres a video of one being done. View: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Xy2iqo3ivtY

srtthis · Feb 22, 2018

nah... i can have a tank down in like 20 minutes so no real need

a91what · Feb 22, 2018

I believe @CarMichael Angelo has done one before.

MFE92 · Feb 22, 2018

I did it years ago and I'd do it again in a heartbeat. You'd think I desecrated a church for all the I got for it, which always makes me chuckle when I have the fuel pump in my hand in about 3 minutes.

Mustang5L5 · Feb 22, 2018

It does look like a great idea when you pump dies and your tank is completely full.

I just don't think I could do it

BlakeusMaximus · Feb 22, 2018

Dropping the tank doesn't take that long to do. I wouldn't cut a hole in my floor just to access the fuel pump. Whats the point? Are you changing your fuels pumps out a couple times a year? Probably not, I see no need to do that.

General karthief · Feb 22, 2018

Changed my fp 14 years ago, only 50k miles and still flowing but still at the national average of 15k a year thats 3 1/2 years, I'd rethink it.

CarMichael Angelo · Feb 22, 2018

Pffftt. Dropping the tank just to get to a fuel pump?

One of the single best things I've done is cut a hole in the trunk floor to allow access to the pump. If the car is stock, it's one thing,...the pump rarely needs attention, but add some power, and a 190 lph pump gives way to a 255, that gets replaced for a 340 unit once a turbo and big injectors start entering the pic.

Who in the hell wants to drain the tank, and fight it off of the filler neck, when you can remove ten screws and be done?

And once I carpet this trunk,...whose gonna know what's under that?

Boostedpimp · Feb 22, 2018

When I think of people doing this, I think of the people who also cut a whole in there firewall to change out there heater core..

General karthief · Feb 22, 2018

If you have the mindset to do the job, making it seal to the trunk floor, look like you actually put some thought into it, not a hack job with a coffee can cover I'd say it's not a bad Idea, like mike said, makes future mods easier.

Noobz347 · Feb 22, 2018

Might as well get it out of the way now. That's where you're going to have to put the Protoculture cells in each morning you leave for work.

CarMichael Angelo · Feb 22, 2018

Boostedpimp said:
When I think of people doing this, I think of the people who also cut a whole in there firewall to change out there heater core..

And if there was a way to make an access panel look good, I'd do that.
For the same reasons, and maybe even more, if I had a stock heater core and was faced with having to replace it, and have to remove the whole damn dash to to it, there'd be a plated cover on that side of the firewall too.

Oh wait,.........I just remembered,....I've already done that before too.

Mustang5L5 · Feb 22, 2018

You make it look good, and well thought out. I'd have no problem with a nicely trimmed access hole like the one you posted.

But typically when I hear "cut hole in floor for fuel pump access" my mind immediately goes to something like this.

Boostedpimp · Feb 22, 2018

CarMichael Angelo said:
Oh wait,.........I just remembered,....I've already done that before too.

Your the exception, typically this idea ends up looking like a complete hack job which is a major turnoff in the shorts

Steel1 · Feb 22, 2018

Did that video scare the crap out anyone else or was it just me? Sparks and fuel vapor always make me nervous.
I'm not adverse to it though, I thought about doing it years ago when I upgraded the stock pump
but went the drain and drop route.

85ragtop · Feb 22, 2018

Did it in two different 240sx's and in my 90. Never understood why people think it's so bad. If done correctly you can't even tell.

Davedacarpainter · Feb 22, 2018

Boostedpimp said:
When I think of people doing this, I think of the people who also cut a whole in there firewall to change out there heater core..

I hadn’t thought of doing that!

eighty5fox · Feb 22, 2018

I will be doing this in a few weeks. and posting some pictures. I dont think its a very bad idea at all especially while running aftermarket pumps and ive already pulled my tank 2 times to replace tank and pump over the years.

Boostedpimp · Feb 22, 2018

eighty5fox said:
I will be doing this in a few weeks. and posting some pictures. I dont think its a very bad idea at all especially while running aftermarket pumps and ive already pulled my tank 2 times to replace tank and pump over the years.

Foxbody tank is simple to drop and r&r a pump, there should really be no need to cut up your hatch area for that but it's your car. If you want to pull year hair out own a s10 or in my case a gmc syclone. You have to pull the bed completely off the frame in order to get to the top of the tank and pump etc.

eighty5fox · Feb 22, 2018

Boostedpimp said:
Foxbody tank is simple to drop and r&r a pump, there should really be no need to cut up your hatch area for that but it's your car. If you want to pull year hair out own a s10 or in my case a gmc syclone. You have to pull the bed completely off the frame in order to get to the top of the tank and pump etc.

I know what you mean on that ive actually done one on my fathers s10 a few years ago.

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the guy doing it does every local racers rear end

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That is…until I whipped out my Bissell

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my rearend will smell so minty fresh,

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