Hello from Germany
 

Hello,

my name is Guenter Hufnagel from Rothenburg o.d.T..
I am just in the process to improve my SS100.
The big problems the petrol tank and I try to learn something here to build a new one.

Cheers

Guenter

Hi Guenter and welcome! :)

Hello Guenter and welcome.

Jere

Hello Guenter, welcome to the forum. I think you may be familiar with a customer of mine. (I won't say his name on here) I built a petrol tank for his SS100 as well as wings and body. I have worked on many SS100s in the last twenty five years or so. I can tell you that the petrol tank is not something to be tackled by the inexperienced. It is a hell of a thing to make.

I made one off tooling to form the correct shape of bead in the outer case, many do not have the correct bead. I made the radius at the top rear of the tank the correct shape throughout its length, many are totally out of shape in this area, this looks awful on many 'restored' cars I have seen. I put all the rivets in exactly the same possitions as they were in the original tank.

http://i792.photobucket.com/albums/y...psd8927a62.jpg

Above- this is the tank prior to having the outer side panels fitted.

http://i792.photobucket.com/albums/y...ps41498570.jpg

http://i792.photobucket.com/albums/y...ps4cff0865.jpg

You can see how well the tank fits the body. Being riveted and soldered construction every part has to be done in the right order so that you don't 'snooker' yourself. There are many brackets, flanges pipes and baffles to be put in place inside the tank.

David

Here it is fitted to the car along with all the other panel work I did.

SS100 body, wings and petrol tank made here at Classic Metal Shaping.

http://i792.photobucket.com/albums/y...psd493e07f.jpg

David