We all got together for some pit practice, and to see what our fuel system is doing. Below is the layout we decided on, mostly mirrored from what we tried at Daytona. These races are typically have 100 teams entered. We get about ~10 feet in width. More room from the wall back towards garages/paddock area. We think we finally got our fueling issues worked out, with the exception of a hiccup with the discriminator valve at the top of the pic below. One ball would hang up on the Iip on the inside of the top of the valve. It would then siphon all the fuel out of the vent and overflow lines until the fuel level dropped to the tank inlet and broke the siphon vacuum. Joe machined a part to go inside and keep that ball above the lip at all times. It shouldn't otherwise effect functionality when fueling or in a rollover crash. Other than that, we're consistently getting the tank add all the lines entirely full. The old vent setup didn't take full fuel consistently, apparently. This upcoming weekend I go back down to the shop to help change out all the springs again. Change oil, put the splitter and wing on, nut and bolt check the whole car. The next racecar. As bad as it looks, it is in much, much better condition than the mustang when it was pulled from field.
So do I. My ex had an Aero Bird when we met. I had a 1993 thunderbird for a while. Back in the early 2000s, when I was spending all my money on toot. I always wanted to swap a manual transmission into it. I was too broke, or too busy, to ever make it a priority. I can't wait to see what Joe does with that car. Just the fact it holds about 7 more gallons of fuel has us all excited.