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.

Fuel Cell Are A Consummable!

 We're servicing a race Elise and noticed a strong smell of fuel.  Turns out the car had a fuel cell and it was leaking.  

This particular tank was made way back in 2009!  Generally they will have a 5 year life so inspect yours.

This client wisely chose to have us install one of our baffled 111tanks so this would no longer be a headache.  We also upgraded his stock pump to our DW65c Fuel Pump.

Of couse, his car was missing some key bits but we were able to source the parts and plumb up our tank so it would be effective and safe.