since this low fuel level starvation seems to be such an issue with stock and aftermarket tanks and efi, I figured I'd mention the solution (other than keeping your tank full). Run a separate surge tank, 1 to 1.5 gallons would be fine. You could mount it in the trunk or under the car if you had room. Run a simple Holley red, Mallory, Walbro, etc. pump from the main tank to this tank. Feed your main fuel pump (A1000 or whatever) off of the surge tank, bypassing to the surge tank. Then there is a separate overflow/bypass line from the surge tank back to the main fuel tank so when it's full the gas has somewhere to go.
This way, even if the main tank gets a "hiccup" at the pickup you still have the surge tank full to cover it up. These work fantastic in road race cars. This would benefit carb'd cars also, but because of the fuel bowls they don't have the immediate stutter of an efi car if the pickup sucks air.
We should have Ricks or someone similar build a couple universal surge tanks with a simple universal mount on them. Wouldn't require anything special, no baffling needed really, just and inlet and outlet bung, plus two additional bungs (one for return line out to main tank, and the second for return line off the main pump).
Jody
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