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Re[2]: Metric and SAE Gas tank sizes

To: toby@wolfenet.com, datsun-roadsters@autox.team.net, DemonTSi@aol.com
Subject: Re[2]: Metric and SAE Gas tank sizes
From: Fred_Katz@ci.sf.ca.us
Date: Fri, 4 Jun 1999 08:59:01 -0700
Hey Van,

Remember that yellow rotary roadster at Doheny last year? I think they 
modified/cut the trunk floor for the fuel cells. That's what you ought to 
do, since you're going the modified route.

Fred

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>Subject: Re: Metric and SAE Gas tank sizes
>Author:  DemonTSi@aol.com
>Date:    6/4/99 4:39 AM
>
>In a message dated 6/3/99 10:40:00 PM Pacific Daylight Time, 
>toby@wolfenet.com writes:
>
><< > The roadster gas tank is 24"x19 1/4''x6 5/8"  Hope this helps Van.e.
> > Bill  66&67spls
> > in N.M.
> 
> Oh, stop the bus!
>        The 67.5 tank is that size- the 68 is ever so slightly different!  (I
> don't suppose it would matter for fitting a fuel cell- they're REALLY
> close).  But it sure made getting the 67.5 tank into the 68 a royal
> pain!  As did fitting the return line...  so add this to your list of
> "went metric" parts...   >>
>
>The roadster tank sure is a little on the shallow side! Most of the fuel 
>cells I've been looking at are at least 8"...going up to abotu 10-11" in 
>depth. Figure in the sump, and things won't look too good back there. (My 
>back up light actually just dragged on the ground as my car was pulled up on 
>a flat-bed tow truck...so I can't imagine what would happen with a fuel cell 
>that hung below it!) 
>
>Van
>

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