Monday, January 26, 2026

111tank2 - Track Testing Results


 We had great results on track this past weekend after two days of track testing.  Our new baffled fuel tank for the S2 Lotus Elise/Exige now features a ball check valve. ProAlloy have been successfully using this design on their tanks for years.  We've installed several of their tanks onto Cup cars and 211s with excellent results.

We ran the car on two days on two different track configurations at SMMR.  Mansell C is shown below.  

We ran the exact corner where the car fuel starved with half a tank in Dec.  See above.  This is Pahrump 2 - which is a fast left hand sweeper that starts right after the equivalent right hander.  The picture of Nick's Elise is at the spot shown on the track map.

Now it runs perfectly down to about 1.5gallons remaining BEFORE it starts to sputter.  We experienced that twice and in both cases, the car took 8.5 gallons of fuel when we went to fill it up.  I am happy that this solution will be a good one for most of you running on the street and track.  It retains the factory safety and emissions plumbing and fixes the starvation at the source of the problem.

We will go into production on this latest design.  It will now be called the 111tank2.


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