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Subject: Re: Fuel tanks for wagon turbo or fuel injection swaps


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MattW
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Date Posted: 19:31:59 08/25/02 Sun
In reply to: Ron Cavanagh ( buickron ) 's message, "Fuel tanks for wagon turbo or fuel injection swaps" on 08:00:37 08/25/02 Sun

Thx for the details and email addresses, Ron. I'll shoot them a note tomorrow and see what happens. I'm still hoping this will work.

> The wagon tank is totally different from other A & G
>body tanks. A regal car or Monte carlo tank is not
>going to work. They are the wrong shape, & filler goes
>in the rear instead of side. The El camino tank would
>be closer, but you would still need to cut out the
>wagon's rear floor & spare tire well. The only real
>good solution is a new wagon tank with a baffle added
>inside before it is welded together.
> Most of the new aftermarket tanks are made by
>spectra industries in Quebec, Canada. They do make new
>tanks to fit our wagons. Since I live in Canada, I was
>Emailing them, talking to someone named Mark Church,
>discussing having them make a run of tanks for us with
>baffles inside, & he was willing to do it, but then
>somebody at Spectra changed their mind & decided they
>were too busy to bother with this project. We need to
>convince them its worth their time to do this! My
>latest move was to talk to the manager at our local
>warehouse, who are one of spectra's biggest single
>customers, & they are going to try to get their
>spectra sales rep to get the shop to build some.
> We need anyone who is interested in a fuel injected
>swap into a 78-83 wagon to Email Spectra & tell them
>there are buyers for these tanks!. Try
>www.spectrapremium.com OR
>calagourer@spectrapremium.com. I had talked to Mark
>Church, & someone else named Rick. Automotive
>Warehouse, in NOTL, Ontario is my local dealer who is
>trying to get spectra involved again. If this project
>does happen we would likely buy them through
>Automotive warehouse, so spectra wouldn't have to ship
>to a bunch of seperate addresses. Thanks, Ron
>Cavanagh, buickron@aol.com

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Re: Fuel tanks for wagon turbo or fuel injection swapsBrian Lee18:31:07 09/10/02 Tue
    Re: Fuel tanks for wagon turbo or fuel injection swapsMattW09:24:47 09/11/02 Wed


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