[DeTomaso] Anybody have a spare pressure tank?

[Garth Rodericks]

Hey Mike,
Sorry to hear about the tank failure, especially after the cost of powder coating.  Mine had rotted at the top and I patched it with Bondo, but that failed after a few years. So I bit the bullet and bought a set of stainless tanks, sand blasted them to get rid of the polished look and powder-coated them black in my own garage.  Hall lists powder coated stainless tanks on their website, but they were out of stock when I ordered mine a couple years ago, which is why I did the powder coating myself.http://hallpantera.com/cgi-bin/p/awtp-product.cgi?d=hallpantera-inc&item=49680

Good luck in the hunt for good used tanks.
Cheers!Garth

-------------- original message --------------
   Hi guys,
   Just got Lori's new engine installed in her car yesterday, and got the
   exhaust etc. hooked up today and fired it up for the first time at
   about 8:00 p.m. and ran it, off and on, for the next hour.
   (A neighbor from a block away walked around the corner to notify us
   that he could hear her car from his house.  I asked him, in innocence,
   "Doesn't it sound great!?"  He did not agree with my assessment and he
   informed me that it was approaching 9:00 p.m.  I took the hint and we
   shut it off and put it away...)
   Anyway, during the course of this whole operation, we removed her water
   bottles, cleaned them up thoroughly inside and out, and after passing
   visual inspection, had them powdercoated.  During the course of the
   warmup, suddenly there was a jet of water coming out of the pressure
   bottle, about two inches from the top.  A pinhole had formed and been
   covered with the powdercoating, but under the influence of the water
   and pressure, it blew out.  While perhaps it could be repaired,
   presumably the rest of the tank around the same longitude is equally
   precarious--it's new water bottle time.
   While the obvious solution is to just buy a new stainless tank, she
   likes the original look of the stock tanks, particularly after they
   have been powdercoated and look so nice.  Thus, I'm wondering if any of
   the legions of you who have fitted new SS tanks have a genuinely good
   stock tank they would be willing to sell?
   Having powdercoated a tank that was on the verge of failure already,
   I'm not interested in doing that again, so looking for a really good
   tank, preferably from a known low-mileage car to give us a fighting
   chance of getting it right this time.
   THANKS!
   Mike
-------------- next part --------------
   Hey Mike,
   Sorry to hear about the tank failure, especially after the cost of
   powder coating.  Mine had rotted at the top and I patched it with
   Bondo, but that failed after a few years. So I bit the bullet and
   bought a set of stainless tanks, sand blasted them to get rid of the
   polished look and powder-coated them black in my own garage.  Hall
   lists powder coated stainless tanks on their website, but they were out
   of stock when I ordered mine a couple years ago, which is why I did the
   powder coating myself.
   [1]http://hallpantera.com/cgi-bin/p/awtp-product.cgi?d=hallpantera-inc&
   item=49680
   Good luck in the hunt for good used tanks.
   Cheers!
   Garth
-------------- original message --------------
   Hi guys,
   Just got Lori's new engine installed in her car yesterday, and got the
   exhaust etc. hooked up today and fired it up for the first time at
   about 8:00 p.m. and ran it, off and on, for the next hour.
   (A neighbor from a block away walked around the corner to notify us
   that he could hear her car from his house.  I asked him, in innocence,
   "Doesn't it sound great!?"  He did not agree with my assessment and he
   informed me that it was approaching 9:00 p.m.  I took the hint and we
   shut it off and put it away...)
   Anyway, during the course of this whole operation, we removed her water
   bottles, cleaned them up thoroughly inside and out, and after passing
   visual inspection, had them powdercoated.  During the course of the
   warmup, suddenly there was a jet of water coming out of the pressure
   bottle, about two inches from the top.  A pinhole had formed and been
   covered with the powdercoating, but under the influence of the water
   and pressure, it blew out.  While perhaps it could be repaired,
   presumably the rest of the tank around the same longitude is equally
   precarious--it's new water bottle time.
   While the obvious solution is to just buy a new stainless tank, she
   likes the original look of the stock tanks, particularly after they
   have been powdercoated and look so nice.  Thus, I'm wondering if any of
   the legions of you who have fitted new SS tanks have a genuinely good
   stock tank they would be willing to sell?
   Having powdercoated a tank that was on the verge of failure already,
   I'm not interested in doing that again, so looking for a really good
   tank, preferably from a known low-mileage car to give us a fighting
   chance of getting it right this time.
   THANKS!
   Mike

References

   1. http://hallpantera.com/cgi-bin/p/awtp-product.cgi?d=hallpantera-inc&item=49680