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  • #17942
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    Dam fuel pump started to play up so I got a walbro gss342 pump that was great fun fitting it into factory basket anyway it’s all done and back together was a little bit tricky but luckily I pulled out my best wand and managed to get it done

    Pity you didn’t take a couple of pics, good for reference if anyone else does it :good: Nice work btw, so other than that its reliable so far?

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    Or bin the factory tank and get/build a drop tank with it all incorporated. (thats to Cava btw)

     

    nah I like the standard look. Works out much cheaper also

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    Yea not 100% sure about that.  If you add up everything etc I reckon there isn’t that much in it. And if you are talking about labor/ease.  Remove tank, bolt up new drop tank, 3L inbuilt surge, 80L capacity, job done.  And there is nothing not to like about the look of an ally drop tank stuffed under one of these imo.  To each their own though, but there are always options, not picking a bloody fight :good:

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    What did your tank set you back.

    Surge and 3x walbros owes me under $1000.

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    #17951
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    My tank cost me $000 and $200 or so for walbro 460 pump

     

    its all about who you know

     

    serge tank was $1200

    #17952
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    My tank was $1500.  So I get 80L capacity, no need for surge, nice area to mount pumps etc, and there is a lot of smarts built inside the tank as well.  And all in a beautiful, legal, self contained single piece unit.  Not much in it $$ wise imo.  And if you are like Pete and can fabricate and weld aluminum, well its even better.  Sorry for the thread hijack btw Pete!!

     

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    That’s good price Gary

     

    honestly thought that that would of been more like $3k for yours

     

    don’t worrie about thread hack

     

    if I had it my way I would of just hacked my manta build with this one lol

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    Was only able to get about 73 L with dual exhaust

     

    myn goes all the way up to chassis rail at back of diff and all the way to back rail

     

    to to remove harrop diff cover would be either a diff removal or tank removal

     

    tank removal in myn is very easy

    #17955
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    Yea I remember watching you build yours Pete, having to have room for pipes each side makes it a compromise of course, 73L is still pretty good.  I do think its a great value, as I say he won’t say exactly what but there is some smarts with baffles, zones etc in mine, he calls it a “pre surge”.  They builds stuff for massive hp guys, like 1500/2000 hp drag cars.  he knows his stuff.  Then of course you could just sit and look at the welds all day long ha ha.  Anyhow, got my regulator off and cleaned up, about to pull the injectors.  really need to get a laptop back out in the shed like before so I can keep up with the posts etc while spinning some spanners.

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    Chucked the Monaro on the rollers just to see what it’s making

     

    242.7 rwkw

     

    not bud for a stock LS1 engine with exhaust extractors and OTR

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    WOW what a colour! Any progress?

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    Hi there buddy

     

    haven’t been on here for a while, progress is that Iv done 9000km in it and with in the first 3 weeks of having it all painted I drove into a drive way with a gate track and slit a small section of the front end on it  :cry: then about 2 weeks after that my drive way has a low part of dirt to side and when I was moving it so I could get my manta out also chipped a small section on side skirt lol

     

    its is ok was only minor but  last week I pulled front end and side skirt off and fixed them up and hopefully paint them tomorrow or with in the next few days lol

     

    have lifted the car 20 mm now so hopefully I won’t go scraping anything anymore lol

     

    as in progress im doin front door trims and stereo system when ever I get time to

    #20206
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    One step forward, two steps back….

    #20221
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    Got to do that every now and then just so I know what it’s like lol

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    Well here was the minor damage I did to it

     

    fixed it all up and back together again now, raised the car about 20mm to solve the problem lol

     

     

     

     

     

    #20298
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    I was talking to Jason Waye (tuff mounts) at the last show I was at and he was telling me about this new air bag thing they do now.  You use the normal springs but there is a small (say 50mm high) airbag donut at the top, and its designed to be pretty much solid, ie no give.  The idea is the real springs do all the work of the suspension, but the airbag you just use to raise and lower it the 50mm to say drop it or if you need to get into a driveway if that makes sense? Because its so small you don’t need a huge air tank and the pump running a lot.  I thought it sounded like a very good way of quickly raising and lowering a car.

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    Same concept as drop in bags

    #20329
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    I actually supprised a suspension company hasn’t created a hydrolic lift on front like most Supercars have

    #20342
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    ^would be awesome, I would go for it.

    #24549
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    Did some work on the Monaro and now it makes 303rwkw from the LS1

     

    not a bad effort at all

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