Dave
The sending unit is from a TPI Camaro, I cut the mount plate from a Fiero Tank
(just because it was available). I measured the elky tank (rough estimate) and it
seems to be 7-8 inches deep. The camaro sending unit was about the same. There is a
picture here:
http://www.chevelles.com/showroom/rick/ Check picture "garage1042" The white
plastic piece is the baffling from the fiero. I'm keeping it around in case I can use
it too. Hope this helps.
rick schaefer
72 El camino
http://www.chevelles.com/showroom/rick/elcamino17.jpg
ACES #00140
Team Chevelle #00038
-- "Dave Studly" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
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
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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
