[DMCForum] Re: Running on 1 Gallon of Gas

["cruznmd" <racuti1@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

I recently examined the baffle in my tank. I have the factory baffle. 
It was indeed closed at the bottom. There was a round, 
plastic "plate" that was rivited to the rest of the baffle. The 
baffle was not supposed to be open on the bottom.



--- In DMCForum@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx, Jim Strickland <ihaveanaccount@xxxx> 
wrote:
> A problem more likely (in my car at least) is losing fuel pressure 
under
> boost.  A notorious killer of rotaries.  It's happened before when 
the
> in-tank hose split.  Didn't destroy the engine, but it made both of 
us
> cry.  
> 
> > On Wed, 03 Dec 2003 18:33:43 -0000 "content22207" 
<brobertson@xxxx>
> writes:
> ...
> > You also run risk of sucking air as low fuel level slides around 
our
> > flat bottom tanks. Both factory baffle and John Hervey's open on 
the
> > bottom.
> ...
> 
> funny you should say that; Grady told me that he thinks there used 
to be
> bottoms on the baffle- connected at the rivets on the bottom of the
> cylindrical plastic baffle.  He thinks that it was made out of a 
plastic
> that "didn't make it" swimming in gasoline for years.  I don't 
know, but
> when I looked in my tank, it looked like I was missing something.  
He
> makes "reproduction" baffle bottoms.  I bought one; been working 
fine for
> me.  
> 
> It makes much more sense for the return line to feed into a "bowl"; 
I can
> reasonably run at much lower fuel levels...
> 
> Jim
> 
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