A little more work getting done on the junk in my trunk. As I stated before I wanted a flapper valve in the fill neck which would close in the event of a rollover. I needed one with a neck angle of about 30 degrees and an approx OD of 1 7/8" to get from the stock gas cap opening to the top of the tank.
After looking over what was available I was pretty disappointed. There was the extreme high end ($$$) and the somewhat extreme middle ground. My opinion is if I have to pay several hundred dollars for every nickle and dime part on the car then I might as well get out of the hobby. I just don't have that kind of disposable income to blow on such a narrowly focused toy. Out of necessity I do a lot of improvised fabrication and sometimes the result is not what/where I wanted to go. This is one of those cases.
Narrowing the search to the range of affordability I found Jaz had two 45 degree offerings, in the $90 range from most vendors, but were only available in 2.25" or 2.5" necks. Damn, talk about over kill for a gas station nozzle! I placed some low ball bids on a few Ebag listings then sat back and waited. Seems I was the only bidder on a new, no box, unit for $12.50! I can make that work!
Yeah, now I had to make that work...
I quickly found that large diameter fuel hose is expensive and difficult to find. After a lot of fiddle-dinking around this is what I cobbled together from the remnants of several attempts with several material combinations. If I do it over I'll spend the $ on a longer length of 2.5" gas hose and shorten the metal adapter considerably.
Recipe:
6" section 1.875" fuel hose - parts store (sold by the foot)
1.875" to 2.5" exhaust adapter - parts store
2' section 2.5" exhaust pipe - parts store
1' section 2.5" ID high flex fuel hose - McMaster Carr
4 high quality hose clamps - Fastenal
This is how it sits today. Still playing with supply & return line routing, venting, mount straps and cell padding.
