GrabberGT Ev. 5

I know your car is pretty well sorted-out .... I was speaking in general terms about Mavs.

I agree with your thinking on the motor too. A torquey motor with a lot of stuff "under the curve" is a lot more fun and useful than a peaky, finicky motor that might make more power at the upper limits that you only see if you are wide open at the track.

Right now, my combo might be 300 horse on a good day, but it is very torquey. My buddy's critique the first time he drove it ... " not the quickest car I've ever been in, but probably the most responsive ..."

Torque,baby!...

 

"and the driver"

That pretty much sums it up.

Chris remember you said it.

Happy Thanksgiving

 

Looks like it will be a while longer before I start working on the "driver". I just ordered a new fuel tank which should be here in about 3 weeks. I've gone high end with a Ricks stainless tank for a 68 Mustang with an internal fuel pump good for up to 600hp, pump sump to keep the pump submerged under all conditions, and full tank baffling to keep 22 gallons of fuel weight from wagging the rear end of my car when hitting the twisties. It should be nice. I've heard nothing but great things about their products. Hopefully this will come in as scheduled and I can begin cutting up the trunk to make it fit soon.

http://www.rickstanks.com/

My next event is the weekend of Feb 17 in San Antonio. Its a Pro-Touring event called Run To The Alamo. It consists of a car show, Autocross, Road Course hot laps, and a Speed-Stop Challenge. If you watch Horsepower TV on the Power Block, you saw one of there events, Run To Music City, covered on the show a few weeks ago. This should be a blast with some very high end builds showing up and being thrashed.

My to-do list:

Fuel Tank
Rebuild Steering rack
adjust driveline angle
test
tune
test some more
tune again

 

I have been concidering a Ricks tank for sometime. I saw one on the show gearz it looked great. Its to bad we need to cut the trunk to fit it in our cars, but its probably worth it if you like taking corners hard. I sure do.

 

I think an early camaro tank might be a close enough bolt in solution. They offered to do a custom tank but i was getting a good deal on this mustang tank. I have been wanting to center the tank and flatten the trunk out anyway. He did mention that they built one for a maverick from Canada last year.

 

Thats interesting I'll check out the camaro tank option if it will work in my 1970. Did Rick's shop say what a custom tank would cost you?

 

I've got a template from where I done my mustang tank for the front drop down

 

The floor is completely different in a 70 isn't it? I'm still not sure yet if I want to cut the floor. My tank is actually in good shape but I'm going to be running a fuel injected engine and I'm not sure what to do. It might be easy enough to modify mine. I'm not to sure what's involed in doing that. I want to be able to take hard corners since I'm building the car to handle well. It might be worth buying a Ricks tank for the extra baffling and it will fit perfect if I do totally custom. But its not cheap.

 

They just said that it would be more and for a smaller tank.

Thanks but they are sending me a template already. Do you have any additional photos from your conversion. I think there were only 2 I found on your build thread. It would be helpful to see how you built in enough support for it. Should I use square tube to build a frame for it to drop into or will the sheet-metal hold it. The tank full of fuel will likely weigh close to 160 lbs.

 

It would be nice to have a larger tank

 

Tank finally came in. Now I just need a plan on how to install it.

 

That looks nice! Not cheap though.

 

Yeah.. Cheap abandoned ship a long time ago. :16suspect

 

I like!!!!

Will they make more, if anyone ever wanted one?

 

Its a standard 68 Mustang 22 gallon drop-in tank. It has internal baffling and fuel pump sump. It came with Walbro 600 hp fuel pump and fuel sending unit installed. Its made to order. I had them alter the filler neck location to be centered.