Rick, What you are referring to with the mounting plate is what I had in mind. I'm picturing that you would maybe cut out an area just slightly larger than the mounting plate from the donor, and then have the old mounting plate on the Chevelle/Elky tank cut out, and the donor one welded in. What car is your new sending unit from? 3rd-gen F-body? Is the Chevelle/Elky tank 'deep' enough?
-Dave -----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of rick schaefer Sent: Sunday, July 04, 2004 10:50 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [Chevelle-list] wanted: fuel tank sending unit, EFI help dave I went with a frame mounted pump. 2 actually. One low pressure at the tank & the Hi pressure pump on the rail. I have a sending unit (ebay) from an EFI car. The mounting plate is quite a bit larger than the chevelle plate. The larger opening allows for the pump. You'll have a heck of a time getting an in tank pump thru the chevelle mount hole. "Someday" I'm gonna have the EFI mount plate assembly installed on my elky tank. And then I'll use the EFI sending unit & pump. rick schaefer 72 El camino http://www.chevelles.com/showroom/rick/elcamino17.jpg ACES #00140 Team Chevelle #00038 -- "Dave Studly" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Does anyone have a spare fuel tank pickup/sending unit they'd like to get rid of? I'm looking for one so I can mock up an in-tank fuel pump for my upcoming EFI conversion. It's for my '70. I know there are folks here (or used to be, anyway) that have converted to EFI. What did you guys do for your fuel pumps? I really want an in-tank pump to keep the noise down, unless someone can suggest tips for running a semi-quiet external pump. Project update: I bought and assembled my MegaSquirt controller. I'm still gathering TPI parts from eBay, etc. From all the reading I've been doing on thirdgen.org, it seems TPI plenums and bases require a fair amount of porting work if you want to run past 5000 RPM (which I do). I'd probably be smart to just get a Holley Stealth Ram, but I'm being cheap, for now. :-) -Dave
