Bill,
I would never advocate spending $500 for a tank, when there appear to be
ample numbers of used ones available for far less. (That's what I
originally paid for my Spit). However, The baffles are there for good
reasons (one of which is the aforementioned Joe syndrome). Others are:
Support, and the fact that 10 gallons of unrestricted fuel represents quite
bit of potential for inertial imbalance. The baffles restrict such rapid
displacement of the fuel and keep the car's center of gravity relatively
intact in turns. Surely I'm not the only one who is prone to putting his
LBC through fast or hard turns. Otherwise why have a "Sports Car".
I expect the tern "fuel Cell" was an unfortunate mis statement of the same
"bladder" that was previously mentioned. But I may be wrong. Wasn't it a
Fuel Cell that blew up on Apollo 13?
Joe
Bill Kelly wrote:
> Chris, Joe, Malcolm, list -
>
> I understand bladders. The tradeoff between removing the baffles and
> stalling out in a hard left turn (shall we name this Joe's Syndrome?
> :-), or keeping them and losing 40% of the capacity of the tank, is not
> very appealing.
>
> Neither is the price of a brand new tank, whether steel or aluminum,
> "universal" or one built especially for the car.
>
> What's this Fuel Cell? I understood the term as a hydrogen - oxygen
> reactor for generating electricity, but I don't think that's what Chris
> meant.
>
> If anyone is interested, I'm going to neutralize the tank with lotsa
> detergent water, lose the fibreglass, and start repairing. If that gets
> to not look promising, there seem to be a number of spare tanks out
> there.
>
> Bill Kelly
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