Project "Payback"

[Spiffav8]

Originally Posted by skatinjay27

todd i gotta come see the race look in person soon!

Aj I am of the same mind. I say we grab a few of the locals and head out to the next event with Todd. I'm sure he could use a good pit crew. lol

[Vegas69]

Project number 1,028

Venting a rear end and fuel tank on a 69 Camaro is very difficult. I should say it's very difficult if you want to vent your fuel system correctly without vapor lock or overheating the pump. I've been running K&N's for both as high as I could get them which wasn't good enough and I knew it. I know I was losing some gas at a little grease. Of course autocross and plans to road course really forced my hand. Plus at no miles per gallon it's not fun losing a few ounces here and there. So anyway, I designed a venting system for both the rear end and fuel tank.

I was very important to me that I kept my 8 an vent. Your fuel vent is supposed to be equal to your feed line and I wasn't going to compromise. I picked up a couple plan jane coolant overflow tanks and tapped them for 3/8 npt top and bottom, the rear end tank got tapped 1/4 npt since I used 6 an for it. I ran all AN fittings, bulhead through the trunk, then vented the tank at the top through grommets into a 1/2 and 3/8 K&N. This will hopefully allow me to top off the tank with no spillage and I'll have a quart capacity in the overflow tanks. The gas tank and rear end are well below these tanks so it should solve any spillage and it look pretty damn cool too. I even used the leaf spring shackle bushing hole for support. That's really a pretty tight spot between the frame rail and quarter, it looks large in the photo. Just to give you a feel those K&N filters are 4 inches across together. Probably have about 10-15 hours in design, fabrication, and assembly.

[70rs]

It looks like it turned out very nice Todd. Have you had a chance to "test" it out on the local twisties yet?
I hope it works as good as it looks.

You mention "no miles per gallon". Have you had a chance to figure out average MPG yet?

[awr68]

Looks nice Todd! Do you have any fuel smell in the garage (while parked)? That is one thing I'm needing to avoid!!

[Vegas69]

I only checked the fuel mileage once on a cruise out of town a ways and got 10mpg. That was highway. I've never really got a strong fuel smell Anthony. I did use hard line the length of the car where the fuel probably sits the most.

[Flash68]

Wow Todd that is some nice clean work. Like a professional.

[waynieZ]

That looks like a nice setup nice and neat..

[Vegas69]

Ever since I mounted up my Forgelines I've had a pull to the right. I've been meaning to add some negative camber to the car since it was set up at a conservative .5 on both sides. Somehow I now had R.375 and L.75 degrees on negative camber. Clearly the almost .5 degrees is the problem. I haven't got out and bought that swamp cooler yet, so I've been spending more time talking about cars than driving and working. I decided to head out there tonight and play with my new bubble gauges and toe plates. I had the camber set at 1 degree per side in like 10 minutes. I have 3/16 toe out currently which is a probably a little to much. I'll save that for another rodeo. Took her out for a 30 mile cruise and she drives beautiful and straight again. The extra turning radius is a bonus. I'll probably lift the front a hair when I reset the toe.

[skatinjay27]

thats a cool alignment gauge...its simple and looks to be a much better option than the spc one. i really just wanna do my own alignment since we dont really have manys options for shops out here.

[Vegas69]

I can get different hub adapters for it as well. I ended up getting it from a race shop downtown. They were nice enough to change out the adapter to fit a corvette at no charge.