On 7/21/14 8:23 PM, Pete Lundquist wrote: > All, > > Am looking to do a little wheel tubbing on my '88 spider and need to move the gas tank. Is there a preferred fuel cell vendor for Spiders? While I don't plan on racing the car, in case I change my mind it would be nice to have the fuel cell done "right." > > Next question, any one in the Bay Area that can weld the sucker in? > since you might race it, here are fuel cell basics (i'm chief of tech for the Mohawk-Hudson and New York regions of the SCCA, been doing this for 20 years):
fuel cell bladders should be to FIA FT-3 specs. ATL and Fuel Safe are two longstanding reliable vendors who prepare fuel cells to these standards. fuel cells should generally be enclosed in steel cans. again, they come from Fuel Safe and ATL with appropriate cans. the steel cans should _NOT_ be welded into the car's structure. build a framework of 1" steel box section for the fuel cell to sit in, and weld that to the car. cutting out the trunk floor and lowering the cell is reasonable, but the minimum distance from the road to the cell should be 6" static height. use steel straps over the top to hold the cell in the frame. the frame doesn't need to be very complicated but it should keep the cell from moving around. richard -- [email protected] Averill Park Networking - GIS & IT Consulting OpenStreetMap - PostgreSQL - Linux Java - Web Applications - Search [demime 1.01d removed an attachment of type application/pgp-signature which had a name of signature.asc] -- to be removed from alfa, see http://www.digest.net/bin/digest-subs.cgi or email "unsubscribe alfa" to [email protected]
