Topic: Fuel Cell advice
The fuel tank on our barn-find Opel has one hole in it big enough to get your hand through, and other only 3 fingers, and six more smaller ones. The whole lower section is probably beyond salvaging.
I'll be pulling the tank for the barn-find parts car, but I'm not optimistic, plus that car has not been cleaned out yet and still smells like rat piss. I'm not looking forward to crawling in the back, nose first, to get it out.
I can get an aluminum replica made for about $400. So that is an option. But a fuel cell might be a better way to go and I've started shopping, but I've never looked into these before and could use some pointers on what to look for. On the Summit Racing site I see quite a range of prices, for example. Is there a particular type of fuel cell I should be looking at? Obviously not a drag racer's cell, and it has to fit. The Opel has a 13 gallon tank and it would be nice if we could get the filler hose to come out at the same place the original did.
Somewhere in the rules section, or maybe in a post here, they warned that cheap fuel cells were to be avoided, the OEM tanks were better.
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