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Felt the need to post of some pictures better than the crappy cell phone ones from earlier. I have some minor rust repair and welding to do, then I can clean everything down and get to spraying. Should have bedliner on it by next weekend I hope.

 

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Welded in my battery tray tonight.




My BBRC fuel tank also showed up today. This thing is freaking nice. Rick 91GT gets great pricing on BBRC stuff. I'm very impressed with the tank. Chris at BBRC does an awesome job.






The tank will be powdercoated the same metalllic silver as the intake and valve covers. Straps will be coated gloss black for contrast. I'm still tossing around pump mounting locations. Rick showed me some pictures of a nice setup he did, and I may wind up going that route. I'm still tempted to have brackets welded to the front of the tank to keep the pump and filters completely out of sight.

 

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you have gigantic balls to use that wooden rotisserie

 

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That tank is gorgeous!

 

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bcam347 said:

you have gigantic balls to use that wooden rotisserie

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It's stronger than it looks, but yes, my balls ARE gigantic!

 

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RacEoHolic330 said:

It's stronger than it looks, but yes, my balls ARE gigantic!

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You may want to have that checked.:ferry:

 

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So tell me about the tank... Is it specific to a Fox? Does the pump mount to the front the rear? Is there any sort of pickup or is it sumped?

 

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The tank is fox specific. BBRC makes tanks for all Mustangs from 85-04. The tank itself does not have any formal pump mounting provisions. It's meant for an external pump, so there is no pickup. There is just the -12 feed out the sump and the -8 return and vent on the top. It accepts the stock filler neck and stock fuel level sending unit.

I'm still debating on how/where I want to mount the pump and filters. Rick has mounted his on a custom bracket that sits between the rear bumber and tank, which I really like. I'm just concerned with how much of the pump will be seen behind my Cobra bumper. The other alternative is to have brackets welded to the front of the tank and hide the pump between the tank and rear end. The pump and filters are all black and I'll be using black fittings and black braided line to hide everything as much as possible.

 

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That's what I was getting at... with the tank mounted, the AN fittings will come out toward the rear of the car?

I've always wondered why they didn't face them forward.

 

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I think the best place to sump the tank is at the rear of the vehicle because of fuel movement during acceleration. The tank can be ran down to almost empty according to BBRC. You would probably have to keep it at least half full with a front sump.

A guy on Corral mounted his pump directly to the tank like this:


I like this because it keeps the pump and filters completely out of sight.

 

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RacEoHolic330 said:

It's stronger than it looks, but yes, my balls ARE gigantic!

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hahahhahahahaha......I'm taking a 'beating' in the tech section today - but this made me crack up..... laugh out loud...

 

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The rest of my Fuelab stuff showed up today.


Consists of a pre-pump filter, 1300hp pump, and post-pump filter with a built-in check valve. The damn filters are longer than I thought.

I also got an electronic fuel pressure regulator from Fuelab.


The regulator also doubles as a pump controller. It controls voltage to the pump based on engine demand. These big pumps must run at reduced voltage when just cruising around or else they will burn up. The regulator does the job that an external controller would. I'm pretty sure Fuelab is the only company with technology like this. Pretty cool stuff.

 

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That tank is freaking nice! Are you going to paint it?

 

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Yessir. Going to have it powdercoated metallic silver. Straps will be black for contrast.

 

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Underside is just about all ready for paint. Just need hit it with compressed air and then wash everything down with solvent and prep chemicals. Should be able to get the primer coat on tomorrow. I still have a little bit of welding to do on the front end but I ran out of gas again, so I just won't paint those areas for now. I was hoping to get the bedliner on this weekend, but because of drying times for the primer and paint, I won't be able to until during the week.



Now I just need to find Ding Pao and get him to clean up this mess. I think he got stuck in the sump pump again.

 

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Finally got this car to look like an actual restoration today.

Scuffed, washed, and prepped. Already ready for some black primer. Because I was going the bedliner route, I didn't bother to get the underside 100% flawless. The bedliner will be very forgiving and will cover up my laziness.




And finally, one coat of primer. Hopefully shooting the satin topcoat tomorrow as well.

 

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Looks great Scott, you sure you don't want to mini tub while its apart? Foam is for the straps, I also put a piece to keep the tank from hitting the body, if you need some let me know.

 

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Thanks Rick. I thought about a mini-tub, but realized that the IRS subframe would still limit wheel/tire size anyway, so I ditched that idea. It apparently takes some serious modification/fabrication to make a mini tub worth it on an IRS car. I'll just deal with having skinny tires in the back for now.

 

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ah...damn IRS those 3 letters always mean nothing good. Ill shoot you all the photos on a disc, maybe before winter Ill plan a trip up your way

 

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I guess with every good modification comes some drawbacks!

Sounds good Rick. I appreciate that. Car will be away for a few weeks at the paint shop around the middle of October, so there won't be much to look at if the car isn't here!

Painting progress is halted for now thanks to the remnants of Isaac and the 90% humidity he is bringing with him to the area. The primer coat I shot Saturday is actually tacky because of the humidity. Sucks.