[Nacs Fab]

I am currently thinking about the safety concerns with having a 1 gallon fuel tank under the hood of the car, specifically at the radiator support in front of headers, etc...

Fuel cell is a 1 Gallon with 4 ports - I have removed the Rollover Check Ball from the rollover valve to use it as a return to rear tank. Car has a 17 Gallon fuel tank in the rear that feeds this front tank with a 140 GPH Booster Pump electric Aeromotive.

I have a Belt Driven C&S Fuel Pump ran off a mandrel that produces over 850 PPH to feed this beast, so I need a fuel source that is steady and never out of fuel. My thought is, I don't want a heat producing LARGE electric fuel pump out back handling all of the duty - or do i?

Fuel cell has the following Ports:

12AN Outlet - This gravity feeds the C&S Belt Driven 60psi capable Pump

10AN Inlet - Return from Aeromotive Boost Referenced regulator - could see 28 psi

10AN Inlet - Supply from Booster Pump - Aeromotive 140 GPH at 10 Psi

10AN Outlet - Return to Rear Tank - this is placed high on the top so it can push the overflow of the fuel cell and keeping the pressure inside what I condsider stable.

Is this factory lid capable of seeing some pressure or should I change it out for a 12-bolt O-Ring style screw on lid. Other option is to weld top completely shut. As a minimum, i plan to gorilla tape the top shut so nobody messes with this lid and leaves it unsecure.

Right now, I hear fuel slosh from the Booster pump and if it sat there and run, it would eventually fill the Surge tank, and start returning to rear tank via the 10AN return. This keeps that pump from being dead-headed and heating up. This system in my mind also requires less of a fancy pump and it could be a holley Blue or something like that if I was ever on a trip and pump failed.

I've had the car running for 10 minutes or so at a time as its a brand new engine, I just don't want to jump in and go cruising without having some sort of piece of mind I guess. I am not needing opinions on how dumb I am for running this on a street car, the engine has Aluminum Rods for Christs Sakes! LOL