the roll cage thread got me thinking. This was something I had been thinking about. As JVL so candidly pointed out, the accumilator on the mud bunny is in a rather precarious position. Thinking of replacing the well and repositioning the accumilator and spare tire mount similar to in-bed mounts on 4x4 rigs.

replacing with plate steel? pretty integral to structure?

stupid idea? somewhat plausible?

Max, that spare tire well is the ideal place to mount your 2 fuel pumps and the big Bosch filter. Its low so fuel spills can drain, and its a snap to close up, and seal for rules and stink.
Note: 2 pumps.

Tom Burress was just a few miles from winning Doo-Wops overall a couple of years ago when his single pump puked. he had 2 spares in the truck. Didn't help when the car puttered to a stop on the last stage.
2 in the car, one in the truck would meant a great win for the Rare-bit.
Instead a Volvo 240---with 2 pumps in the back---won.


I'd concentrate on somewhere else.
Armor the front edge with a layer of .062 or .088 and call it good.
Put the effort into moving the pumps and line inside where they're safe.

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seal? like constructing a latching door? or just a removable panel?

I'm doing a removable panel on mine.

Bushore used part of a 55 gal. drum to seal his pump. He also mounted the pump to the drum so it's easy to pull out and work on/swap.

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seal? like constructing a latching door? or just a removable panel?

Some 1/32 aluminum sheet with some aluminum L pieces pop riveted on for strength and 3-4 Dzus or 1/4 turn fasteners. maybe a strip of cut up mouse pad glued on for fumes.

Cheap. easy.

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Yeah,,,aluminum,,,or al-youminium as they on BBC. Get Grant to cut a big circle with his Skil saw.

Better yet, get Tim to spend eight hours and fifty blades to do it with a jig saw!

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Better yet, get Tim to spend eight hours and fifty blades to do it with a jig saw!

Better plan, I'll use our plasma cutter!

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Better yet, get Tim to spend eight hours and fifty blades to do it with a jig saw!

Better plan, I'll use our plasma cutter!

(And I bet you could cut a spare tire sized circle out of 1/16 in under 1.5 hours with under 3 blades.. with a jig saw... )


(But I would use our plasma cutter with the circle cutter compass thing.)

Hum... 3 blades huh.

Well I did mine in 0 - blade still works fine :p

Beat that

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Who said the cover has to be round?

Who said it didn't ? I guess it could be a trapazoid, I'll bet Timm could cut one of those with a Swiss Army knife.

I'm not sure about the swiss army knife. It would have to be one with a nail file at least.

Maybe Al could get the swiss army wood saw to work?

my fuel pump recently died while ironically driving the car to the gas station, and after monkeying around with the stock fuel pump location, i decided it was about the worst place for it.

i built the fuel pump box into the front of the spare tire well, as the back has the battery box. i think this was much easier building two sides of a box instead of 5, if it was on top of the shell inside.

if you dont cut out the spare tire well, i think this is a pretty good use for it.







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Just what was it about your driving that made it ironic?

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