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Old 10-25-2004, 07:41 PM
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Weekend before last I had a driveshaft come out from under my truck . It beat up on the tank and lots of other stuff pretty bad. The heat shield on the tank is beat up and looks like it cut on the plastic a little bit when it smashed into the tank.

Anyways, I'm thinking of putting a fuel cell in the bed, maybe a 20 gallon cell. I was wondering if I can get some AN fitting on the stock lines about where they go from the tank into the frame rail.

I've got a Walbro GS390 I think it is in front of the in tank pump. What kind of HP would this setup support? Currently I'd say I'm running ~425 to the wheels but eventually plan on a nice 408.

Any insight would be helpful.
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Funny, my driveshaft let go about a week ago, beat the **** out of my heat shield and tank as well, I think my tank looks ok though. I'm gonna roll with it that way though. I only get about 10 miles to the gallon, so I need every bit of space.
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I got a 20 gal. RCI cell from Summit for a little under $300. Sumped, baffled, sending unit,vent and return fittings, etc. It shouldn't be too hard to adapt your stock lines to the 8AN fittings.
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How did you hook it up to the fuel lines?
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You can get some hard tube adapters to convert the lines to AN fittings. I got mine from Street + Performance, but Jegs and Summit have them as well. I had a '00 Silverado, but I can't remember off the top of my head how the fuel system is set up at the tank..or how the lines are composed I mean. Probably very similar to the F-body's.
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You don't have any piucs by any chance do you??




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