[DeTomaso] Fuel vapor canister/charcoal canister.

[Larry - Ohio Time Corp]

Chris,

MD would say 175 mph is "very conservative"...

Larry (no game tonight) - Cleveland



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From: detomaso-bounces at realbig.com [mailto:detomaso-bounces at realbig.com] On
Behalf Of Christopher Kimball
Sent: Wednesday, October 17, 2007 6:20 PM
To: JDeRyke at aol.com; Pantera007 at sbcglobal.net; MikeLDrew at aol.com;
rimov at charter.net; detomaso at realbig.com
Subject: Re: [DeTomaso] Fuel vapor canister/charcoal canister.

FWIW:

I ran my vent hose around the back of the tank, making a short dip on the 
tank side of the heat shield so I could put the little, in-line overflow 
valve in a vertical position (on the "upside" of the dip) so it would work 
properly if the car ever flipped, but when right-side up allow proper 
venting.  I then continued to run the hose under the back window, but 
because I like to be very conservative, I also added an in-line fuel filter 
so dust and junk couldn't migrate into the gas tank, then the hose, still 
running along the bottom of the back window, comes past the distributor and 
carb and then around toward the back of the car, terminating into the bottom

of the air cleaner.  And, because I like to be very conservative, I bought a

little foam flame-retardant item which is located inside the air cleaner.  I

had to modify an adaptor or two to get the hose to connect to the foam 
flame-retardant attachment, but it seems to work just fine.

And, because I like to be very conservative, I'm going to wait until I can 
resolve the oil-burning problem my engine has before I try and take the car 
up to 175 mph...

Sincerely,

Chris
#2813


>From: JDeRyke at aol.com
>To: Pantera007 at sbcglobal.net, MikeLDrew at aol.com, 
>rimov at charter.net,detomaso at realbig.com
>Subject: Re: [DeTomaso] Fuel vapor canister/charcoal canister.
>Date: Wed, 17 Oct 2007 14:36:30 EDT
>
>OEM charcoal cannisters saturate with fuel and oil residue after 10 ir so
>years (by smog-law, they have to last 10 years!) and the assembly becomes
>worthless. Thats why we remove them on smog-exempt performance cars (25 or 
>more years
>old) that don't need such 2-lb decorations only along for the ride. Soaking
>such a cannister for a month or so in paint solvent may remove most of the 
>oily
>slop but the charcoal granules inside are supposed to be "activated"- 
>dried-
>so likely you'd then have to bake it at maybe 180 degrees for an hour or so

>to
>restore some amount of function. This baking will likely be best done by
>batchelors or those that are nose-dead....
>But I suspect that modern cars under smog laws still use such smog
>fume-collectors so it should be simply a matter of walking around a 
>junkyard with a tape
>measue and finding one off something no older than 5 years that fits the
>Panteras' clamp. Or (oh horrors!) walk into your local Ford dealer and ask 
>the
>counterman what he's got.
>As I've said many times, if the tank-vent function is all you want, simply
>run the vent line directly into the air cleaner base, bypassing the 
>cannister. A
>flame arresting foam filter from Fram can be added if the possibility of
>backfires causing a tank fire bothers you. Note- in both of my past Weber
>air-cleaner fires, both were rigged with a vent hose directly from the fuel

>tank, with
>no foam filter, and neither fire caused a tank explosion or expanded the
>fires. I do not recommend this system to Mike Drew nor any cars he's 
>touched
>though, in respect of his talents.... Cheers- J Deryke
>
>
>
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