{"id":244,"date":"2017-09-12T11:34:49","date_gmt":"2017-09-12T11:34:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/fastdruid.co.uk\/gt40\/?p=244"},"modified":"2017-09-12T11:34:49","modified_gmt":"2017-09-12T11:34:49","slug":"tanks","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/fastdruid.co.uk\/gt40\/2017\/09\/12\/tanks\/","title":{"rendered":"Tanks"},"content":{"rendered":"

The original GT40 had bladder type tanks inside the sills. These are an absolute fortune to buy and need regular replacement. The space frame replicas both don’t have this area and\u00a0I’m not going to be racing this there is no need so it’s normal tanks.<\/p>\n

Myself and a few like-minded GT40 builders decided that the very best way was to get someone to make up a batch of tanks. That way we could just pay fabrication + material costs and get a bulk discount.<\/p>\n

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A shot while later we each got two tanks, one for each side.<\/p>\n

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As these are very long they’re baffled inside<\/p>\n

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plus (although you can’t see it) there is a trap door at the end to try and keep all the fuel running away under braking\/descents. There will also be a decent sized swirl pot with lift pumps as well so it should be ok.<\/p>\n

The tanks have the obvious fill port, two vents (one each end), one feed and one return.\u00a0Fittings are all AN.<\/p>\n

There was only one issue now. How to mount them. In the end I went for stainless straps, 4 per tank. These are utter overkill. Consisting of 2 parts each with 5 different types. Two front ends, two rear ends (mirrors of each) and the middle straps.<\/p>\n

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These pivot at the bottom on mounts welded to the frame<\/p>\n

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At the top they bolt into top hat adaptors which are fitted through the chassis and tacked onto the back.<\/p>\n

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The original GT40 had bladder type tanks inside the sills. These are an absolute fortune to buy and need regular replacement. The space frame replicas both don’t have this area and\u00a0I’m not going to be racing this there is no need so it’s normal tanks. Myself and a few like-minded GT40 builders decided that the … Continue reading Tanks<\/span> →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12,3],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/fastdruid.co.uk\/gt40\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/244"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/fastdruid.co.uk\/gt40\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/fastdruid.co.uk\/gt40\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/fastdruid.co.uk\/gt40\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/fastdruid.co.uk\/gt40\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=244"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/fastdruid.co.uk\/gt40\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/244\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":246,"href":"http:\/\/fastdruid.co.uk\/gt40\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/244\/revisions\/246"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/fastdruid.co.uk\/gt40\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=244"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/fastdruid.co.uk\/gt40\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=244"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/fastdruid.co.uk\/gt40\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=244"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}