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Anyone find a fix for fuel sloshing and starvation?

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Just need to get around to fitting it but the side walls are a good 50% plus higher than the stock factory bucket so i'm guessing it will allow me to run a lower fuel load. Otherwise its just a pretty piece hidden under the carpet. I have another type in the 944 and they look to have a sound engineered concepts.
 
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Just need to get around to fitting it but the side walls are a good 50% plus higher than the stock factory bucket so i'm guessing it will allow me to run a lower fuel load. Otherwise its just a pretty piece hidden under the carpet. I have another type in the 944 and they look to have a sound engineered concepts.
What pump option did you go with? 1 or 2 pumps? are you upgrading the wiring?
 
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I got the same setup.. went with the 274 walbro pump.. i make 490 to the wheels with E85 and thats about 550 crank.. that 274 pump is good for 600 hp on e85. oh and its also got a built in check valve.. the Radium guys steered me to it.
I'm on Lund tune with intake and headers and exaust and on high pump gas, don't want to run E85.
Mainly do circuit track work and want to prevent fuel starvation so was looking into that option rather than going fuel cell.
 

Boone

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My fuel pumps are actually triple fused. Starts with an inline block under the hood after exiting the fuse box, inline again before the Fore FC3 controller in the spare tire well (I cut out the quick connectors), and again in the FC3 controller for each individual pump (using two of a possible three). The power is routed through a dash switch with even more fuses to turn the pumps on and act as a kill switch, and I'm still a street car. I really don't want to have to use the tool posted above.
 
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Moving this to project superbeater

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Haha, I broke the clip on the siphon hose inside the tank. Thankfully the two halves seemed to stay secure when I put it back together. The thought of pulling the cage again to use a cable tie like yours is giving me chills. Fingers crossed it holds.
 

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These clips have been around a long time, The clips aren't meant to be removed and reused, just cut them with a side cutter and use a new clip. Motorcraft fuel filters came with two of these clips.
 
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These clips have been around a long time, The clips aren't meant to be removed and reused, just cut them with a side cutter and use a new clip. Motorcraft fuel filters came with two of these clips.
Where I'm at Genuine ford parts are hard to come bye, I have to make due with Delphis in most cases, brand X in others or mail order Ford parts and hope they ge there.
 
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one thing i did notice.. there are two of the mini inlets on the bottom of this s197 radium hat tank assembly vs one on the factory setup. Also the factory plastic hat tank contained a huge 10 micron filter that reduced its volume even more.. takes up almost all of the volume!
 

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