Jump to content
SAU Community

Drop Tanks For Skylines

jetpilot

By jetpilot,
in General Maintenance

 Share

Recommended Posts

jetpilot Enthusiast

jetpilot

Posted
Posted

I was wondering if it is possible to custom make a drop tank for a Skyline R33 GTST.

Like capacity maybe I am only guessing about 90 litres. Made out of Stainless Steel=$$ or Aluminium.

Your thoughts and ideas.

I guess this scenario is for the daily work horses. Going to work and coming home. Yes I understand all the weight issues on the sat or friday night when we are in town wanting to make a spectacle of ourselves.....but this is mainly for like I said for the work horses.

I am going to come up with some designs and see how it goes. Has anyone done it before?

Link to comment
https://www.sau.com.au/forums/topic/126265-drop-tanks-for-skylines/
Share on other sites
Al Grand Master

Al

Posted
Posted

'cuz it lookz fully sik bro! :P

*sorry couldn't help myself :P*

Have you looked under your car? R33's have a very weirdly shaped tank, unlike the commonwhores. If you ARE only after the look, best get an aliminum cover made up with red or blue fake bracing. If that is the case i retract my appology :D

png godzilla Enthusiast

png godzilla

Posted
Posted

jetpilot,

A W E S O M E ! ! ! !

what a sensational idea, being an old V8 LX Hatch Back Torana man from way back, i reckon you are really onto something here!!

the Skyline already looks awesome from the rear end, but an Alloy or SS Drop Tank swingin between a set of 255's.........................man i just picture it.

i gonna search & see if it;s been done before. maybe someone with grafics experience could muster us up an imiage!!

keep in touch on this one. :wave:

png godzilla Enthusiast

png godzilla

Posted
Posted

HDT_SS06-03-2006, 06:58 PM

for those who are interested.......

http://image-cache.skylinesaustralia.com/p...line3_small.jpg

not sure but from a google search looks like there might be a pic on this forum, anyone more learned than me know how to find it the link doesn't seem to work?

Craved Grand Master

Craved

Posted
Posted

32s have teh fuel tank under the boot, R33's ones are infront and over the rear Axle ..

good luck getting one engineered, and more than likely you would lose your spare wheel well in this process too ..

png godzilla Enthusiast

png godzilla

Posted
Posted
32s have teh fuel tank under the boot, R33's ones are infront and over the rear Axle ..

good luck getting one engineered, and more than likely you would lose your spare wheel well in this process too ..

i got 2 x 12" Subs, 2 x Amps & a Battery in my Boot, my spare tyre is 2 cans of Shhhhht that white stuff, 12 bottles of compressed CO2 & some tryre plugs.

so a spare has never been an issue :ban:;)

still gotta work out where i'm gonna put the surge tank, maybe i can cut the tire well out & put a drop tank that incorporates a surge tank where the spare used to be...................... :cheers:

Craved Grand Master

Craved

Posted
Posted
i got 2 x 12" Subs, 2 x Amps & a Battery in my Boot, my spare tyre is 2 cans of Shhhhht that white stuff, 12 bottles of compressed CO2 & some tryre plugs.

so a spare has never been an issue :D:)

still gotta work out where i'm gonna put the surge tank, maybe i can cut the tire well out & put a drop tank that incorporates a surge tank where the spare used to be...................... :blink:

you would be able to mount the surge tank under the car if you replace the wheel well...

if you are putting a drop tank in, you wont need the std tank, so remove that, plenty of room then for all fuel systems.

making it legal is the hard/costly part ..

and yeah, i dont have a spare in my car either, havent for 3 years.

png godzilla Enthusiast

png godzilla

Posted
Posted
you would be able to mount the surge tank under the car if you replace the wheel well...

if you are putting a drop tank in, you wont need the std tank, so remove that, plenty of room then for all fuel systems.

making it legal is the hard/costly part ..

and yeah, i dont have a spare in my car either, havent for 3 years.

Craved, definately food for thought!! i'm happy jetpilot bought the subject up.

PS: legality won't be a problem here, that's the good part!

Create an account or sign in to comment

You need to be a member in order to leave a comment

Create an account

Sign up for a new account in our community. It's easy!

Register a new account

Sign in

Already have an account? Sign in here.

Sign In Now
 Share
Go to topic listing


  • Similar Content

  • Latest Posts

    • Komdotkom
      High temp brake fluid?

      By Komdotkom · Posted

      Reasonably hard, although I haven't run it with the new Endless setup yet. The old brakes were F50's on 335mm rotors and the car did a 1:40.6 at Phillip Island which is a reasonable time, I'm seeing high 600s on the temperature paint. A guy I know ran the Endless fluid at WTAC without issues and he was doing 1:33's I think (Evo) with a 355/332 setup. I don't get out to the track as much as I'd like but we put the car on the hoist and spanner check every bolt and re-paint mark everything, bleed the brakes, change the fuel, check the coolant system and re-bleed blah blah blah before every event. Motorsport is expensive, RB's are expensive so a couple of hours before an event is time well spent. It's also a net time saving because if you can keep your RB from self destructing it saves you time in the long term!
    • Duncan
      First/Second Post

      By Duncan · Posted

      Welcome Alice......hope you have a bit more luck from here on! What was done in the build?  
    • svenskalice
      First/Second Post

      By svenskalice · Posted

      Hello! I'm new here, I have an R33 GTST that is currently being finished up! Last year was pretty rough, blew two stock turbos so I decided to build the car. Has been down since November, but I get it back next weekend!
    • svenskalice
      Kaizo Industries

      By svenskalice · Posted

      Hello, I believe my car was imported to America in the 2000s by Kaizo Industries. Would anyone be able to help me find more info on them? I've only found all the basic stuff like that paul walker bnr34, them being shutdown by feds, just stuff like that. Any help would be much appreciated, thanks!
    • believer
      HKS Vcam Step Pro Issues

      By believer · Posted

      I am using Motec M150.  I am not working on the car myself actually.  My workshop is giving all these info, they are quite reputable in the industry and are very familiar with Motec and RBs and have done a few big setups with VCam and single turbo on RBs.  In fact, they built and tuned my engine from day one.  But they are stumped with my engine at the moment and cannot work out how come the compression is so low with the VCam. They told me that they have now swapped in some Kelford cams (without the VCam) and can achieve around 130psi compression and the low end torque is better, but now the engine is doughy as.  It boosts and peaks at more than 1000rpm slower, with twin HKS GTIII RS, it doesn't get full boost until over 5000rpm. I have always thought the VCam was a bit disappointing at the low rpm. To a point I had to ride the clutch a fair bit to get up a small hill from stand still.  That was when I had a clutch.  Now changing to a 8HP, I don't have that luxury and this problem has become a major issue. I am beginning to think the VCam never work since the day it was installed.  Maybe it was just sitting at the most advanced point, that is why it went good at top end but very ordinary at the bottom.  Therefore, with the help of the Holinger 6 speed and paddle shift, as long as it was moving, it drove pretty good.
×
×
  • Create New...