350 chev gemini coupe

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BAD 44u
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dont run methanol in an aluminium fuel tank. it will get eaten away
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sounds tough , please use it from something more purposeful than JUST burnouts , could make it a drag/track/drift car.. soooooo many different types of events other than burnout comps that these V8 gems should be used in..

Hopefully it all goes to plan ,
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BAD 44u wrote:dont run methanol in an aluminium fuel tank. it will get eaten away
no if you clean it out with unleaded after each time you start it. if it starts to get eaten out i will just replace it with a plastic one with polished steal be ok with a surge tank. just might have to run fuel througt the motor after. or as my dad did in this super sedan run it on thinners.
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GEMWRC wrote:sounds tough , please use it from something more purposeful than JUST burnouts , could make it a drag/track/drift car.. soooooo many different types of events other than burnout comps that these V8 gems should be used in..

Hopefully it all goes to plan ,
it should be tough it is a motor out of an sprintcar. I want to do some drag runs and stuff like that is will be s*#t for drifting but i will give it a go.
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yeah i have 2 tunes on my ecu one for alcphol and a basic tune for petrol to clean it all out and i have the fuel pump hooked up to a switch with an extra screw on hose for pumping the ofuel out of the tank.
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BAD 44u wrote:yeah i have 2 tunes on my ecu one for alcphol and a basic tune for petrol to clean it all out and i have the fuel pump hooked up to a switch with an extra screw on hose for pumping the ofuel out of the tank.
it will be having mechanical injection so i dont have an ecu. it just runs off of the fuel pump.
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when you flush the system put some crapping plugs in it otherwise if you run the same fuel pressure on pump fuel it will run so rich it will destroy the plugs.
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car is being a bitch i am just sick of it everything has to be modified in some way or the other. so i am going to take a few months off of it.

here is the last update for a while

it has steering now. had to cut down the cloum and the shaft and weld it in the firewall. i still have to fill in around the steering cloum and weld it up and grind back the welds

here are the pictures

http://img830.imageshack.us/g/691591706 ... 31100.jpg/
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new motor is 90% change of going ahead. it made 690hp on the dyno with 640 ft of toque. not bad for a small 360 stroked motor. now i just need some money for a good auto gearbox. i hope the gemini diff is good to do the job. but it will have upgraded axles lol
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some pictures of my fuel tank will upload some more work i have done on the firewall after

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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RsohZxseeGc

not mine but it is the same set up.
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1800 for my new block as the second hand one had problems to weak for what i want to do or something
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today i got back into my gemini after a short break. i have finished all of the welding in the enigne bay now all the wholes and the rust has been removed.

here are some pictures i will get some more off my phone when i have more time but you get the idea.

http://img842.imageshack.us/g/162645183 ... 34110.jpg/

next on the list is finish welding the back of the chassic support in. and after that brakes and wheels. which i have to save up for abit as i want to do something different and after the motor i am short on funds
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i am sick of the s*#t
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Post by WOPISH »

Don't try and finish it by tomorrow, take your time, there are always going to be all types of events available.

Maybe reach out to fellow Radelaideians to give you a hand.....

Don't give up mate, i have a couple of times and i have regretted it heaps.
TG Sedan.
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