Gas on Empty?

You car draw gas from the lowest point, so there would be no freaking settiments

Incorrect sir, read my previous post, most fuel pick ups are held slightly of the bottom of the fuel tank.

Oh, by the way, it's sediments.

 

[Eli]

Originally posted by: MercenaryForHire
Roger >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> Riceboy > Munchies

- M4H

Ouch.. lol

 

[hevnsnt]

I always heard that you wanted to fill your tank at 1/2 because you never know when you are going to get into a high-speed chase.

 

[Quixfire]

Originally posted by: Munchies

Originally posted by: Roger
I normally fill up when it drops below the quarter full mark on the gas gauge, for a vehicle driven seldomly, having it filled all the time will decrease the chances of water condensation.
On long trips with multiple fill ups, waiting until it hits the red zone will not hurt anything, leaving the vehicle parked in a wet climate with the tank empty will cause condensation.

WHo the hell is ever heard of roger the auto guy?
I am cutting it, building hopped 392's that seem to just never fail, and while I am an ENGINE guy, I do restore cars outside of my career as an performance mechanic. Asshat Youl probably whip out with something about how you were working on eninges before I was a drip on my mommas leg. Spare me, I do a good job, and btw I am not an auto tech. I am an IHC performance engineeer.

Who still races tired iron like 392's anymore?

The last Top Fuel engine I built was a 500+ ci Keith Black Hemi.

Edit: I'm sorry, when I read 392 I though of the early 392 Chrysler Hemis, now I know you meant the 392 V8 International Harvester engine, which is even funnier.

Edit #2: I just remembered I have a couple of 392 cores you can use. I just need to go pull them up from the bottom of Lake Erie.

 

Hey Quix, this is copied off that horrible website he posted ;

Respecki Customs is a two man engine building service,that is on one foot, trying to get its second up. Run by Dennis Respecki with his son Joshua Respecki. Although Joshua does not have years of experience with engines, as his father does, he is learning fast. As they are just starting they have limited room, and experience with running a business, give them time and they will be very successful.

I am going to assume that Munchies is Joshua.

 

[MercenaryForHire]

Originally posted by: Roger
Hey Quix, this is copied off that horrible website he poasted ;

Respecki Customs is a two man engine building service,that is on one foot, trying to get its second up. Run by Dennis Respecki with his son Joshua Respecki. Although Joshua does not have years of experience with engines, as his father does, he is learning fast. As they are just starting they have limited room, and experience with running a business, give them time and they will be very successful.

I am going to assume that Munchies is Joshua.

But ... but ... the Keyboard Racer said that he builds "hopped 392s" and does "15 rebuilds a week!"

PWN3D

- M4H

 

[jagec]

Originally posted by: Papagayo
I was always told to never have it below half full in WINTER..

If the fuel level is low, it more likely to freeze in cold temp..

yeah, it's much more important in winter than summer...but the reason is to prevent condensation.

As long as your pump is pumping LIQUID gas (you're not running on vapors), there is no chance of damage. This point varies from car to car but it's far below 1/2 tank. My car has about a 450 mile range before the gas light comes on, and due to a slightly b0rked fuel gauge it hits Empty at about the 300 mile mark. If I filled up at every halfway point I'd be losing a lot of money because as it stands I can "wait out" most sudden surges in gas prices

Not this summer though

 

[Quixfire]

Originally posted by: Roger
Hey Quix, this is copied off that horrible website he posted ;

Respecki Customs is a two man engine building service,that is on one foot, trying to get its second up. Run by Dennis Respecki with his son Joshua Respecki. Although Joshua does not have years of experience with engines, as his father does, he is learning fast. As they are just starting they have limited room, and experience with running a business, give them time and they will be very successful.

I am going to assume that Munchies is Joshua.

You know Roger I was a lot like Joshua 20+ years ago working for my grandfather in his custom auto shop. I though I knew everything too, but after a couple of years of being smacked in the head with a cane and cursed at in French, my grandfather was French-Canadian, I learned to keep my mouth shut and my eyes open.

Sounds like it is the kind of show they put on TLC now.

<-- Tears up over fond memories.

 

[Quixfire]

Originally posted by: oldsmoboat
Whoa! Everbody slow down.
Back to the OP. Why would you put a gas in your car?

Because it doesn't run on diesel.

 

[Quixfire]

Originally posted by: MercenaryForHire
BTW, I can't help but ph34r Munchies' l33t HTML coding on New Page 2, the massive ORDER QUEUE FOR MARCH 0 / 2, and of course the sidebar ... UNREGISTERED Elevator by Cool Focus [www.coolfocus.com]

I'd trust my ten-year-old Karelian with a socket wrench to build an engine before I'd let you near anything bigger than a lawnmower.

- M4H

My son just got his first socket set and changed a spark plug in a 94 Dodge B350 this weekend. In fact he took the valve cover off a 84 Escort 1.6L for me when he was two and a half.

 

[MercenaryForHire]

Originally posted by: Quixfire
My son just got his first socket set and changed a spark plug in a 94 Dodge B350 this weekend. In fact he took the valve cover off a 84 Escort 1.6L for me when he was two and a half.

Cool. Does he do imports too, or only domestics?

- M4H

 

[Quixfire]

Originally posted by: MercenaryForHire

Originally posted by: Quixfire
My son just got his first socket set and changed a spark plug in a 94 Dodge B350 this weekend. In fact he took the valve cover off a 84 Escort 1.6L for me when he was two and a half.

Cool. Does he do imports too, or only domestics?

- M4H

As long as your money is green he doesn't care what you drive.

 

[olds]

Originally posted by: Quixfire

Originally posted by: oldsmoboat
Whoa! Everbody slow down.
Back to the OP. Why would you put a gas in your car?

Because it doesn't run on diesel.

Diesel is a liquid, not a gas.

 

[Quixfire]

Originally posted by: oldsmoboat

Originally posted by: Quixfire

Originally posted by: oldsmoboat
Whoa! Everbody slow down.
Back to the OP. Why would you put a gas in your car?

Because it doesn't run on diesel.

Diesel is a liquid, not a gas.

Oh, I get it now. Silly me...

 

[Kaieye]

Yesterday, I ran out of gas and had to hold up 15 people for about an half hr. I am such a klutz...

 

[alkemyst]

Originally posted by: Pacfanweb
Regardless, you still can't do 15 a week. It'd have to be you and quite a few others to do 15 a week.

huh for just a ring and bearing job like you said previously??? How long do you think an engine takes to rebuild? Usually the long time frames a shop gives is one that outsources machining.

Another reason you don't want to run out of gas is some fuel injection systems will need to be primed to restart once ran dry.

 

[Crucial]

Originally posted by: CFster
We see it all the time in my business (wholesale auction).

Cars run low on gas (to the point of running out) - with burned up fuel pumps. Happens ALL THE TIME. You think a person turning in a lease car is going to bring it back with a full tank? No, they leave a gallon in it - then it gets moved around the dealership a few times, then it gets moved to an auction like ours. By the time it gets to us it's on empty with a burned up pump. I'm talking cars with 30k - 40k on them. We change several a week. Some makes are more succeptible than others. GM and Chrysler products seem to be the prime offenders. The least they could do is provide an access panel on the bottom of the trunk or under the back seat (like foreign cars do) to make things easier - I'm sick of dropping tanks.

The pump on my 1995 Trans Am went bad after a few times running it out of gas. I made my own access panel. There's no way I was dropping the tank by myself on jackstands.

The V shaped gas tank makes the gauge worthless after 1/2 tank. I just filled it up today at the 1/4 full mark and it only had 1.5 gallons in it. When full it stays above the full mark for at least 100 miles.

 

[Hans5849]

im to lazy to read thru all the posts, but i will reply to the first one.

If you live some where where it freezes, like alaska or its winter time, you want to fill up before half way because the water in your tank MAY freeze at night when it gets really cold

 

[BadNewsBears]

Originally posted by: MercenaryForHire

Originally posted by: Roger
Hey Quix, this is copied off that horrible website he poasted ;

Respecki Customs is a two man engine building service,that is on one foot, trying to get its second up. Run by Dennis Respecki with his son Joshua Respecki. Although Joshua does not have years of experience with engines, as his father does, he is learning fast. As they are just starting they have limited room, and experience with running a business, give them time and they will be very successful.

I am going to assume that Munchies is Joshua.

But ... but ... the Keyboard Racer said that he builds "hopped 392s" and does "15 rebuilds a week!"

PWN3D

- M4H

Hey keyboard racer, the CUSTOM SHOP is me and my dad. Not the engine shop. Now STFU.

 

[TechnoKid]

To:Munchies

How are you an "IHC engineer" if you haven't even been to college yet? If you think you are en engineer because you fix engines, you misunderstand the meaning of an engineer.




To: the rest of you.
I was watching topgear a while back where they went 800 miles on a single tank in an Audi A8L 4.0 TDi. He mentioned that you cannot run out of fuel in a diesel (maybe it was speciafically the TDi series of diesels) because if air gets in the system, the whole thing has to be purged at the dealer. What this flush entails, I do not know. I know that diesel is injected at very high pressures, so I'm guess air woul be bad to go through the system?

 

[BadNewsBears]

Originally posted by: TechnoKid
To:Munchies

How are you an "IHC engineer" if you haven't even been to college yet? If you think you are en engineer because you fix engines, you misunderstand the meaning of an engineer.




To: the rest of you.
I was watching topgear a while back where they went 800 miles on a single tank in an Audi A8L 4.0 TDi. He mentioned that you cannot run out of fuel in a diesel (maybe it was speciafically the TDi series of diesels) because if air gets in the system, the whole thing has to be purged at the dealer. What this flush entails, I do not know. I know that diesel is injected at very high pressures, so I'm guess air woul be bad to go through the system?

Because I have designed high performace build of engines. I DESIGNED THEM. Engineer. Your done.

 

[Gerbil333]

Originally posted by: Atomicus
1) keep trying to accelerate like a jack-ass and POSSIBLY mess up your engine(try it for yourself or take advice from my dad who is a technician/mechanic who has kept his 1986 Oldsmobile stationwagon going for almost 140k miles)
.

HAHAHAHAHAHA, 140K? I run my car till the gas light comes on, and it's at 211,000 miles.

 

YOU DESIGNED THEM, YOU.


You absolutely crack me up.

YOU designed the block, heads, valve train and then custom fabricated them.

HAAHAHAHAHAHA

You don't even have the slightest idea what "design" means.

 

[melly]

This thread is actually informative and I enjoyed reading it. I was wondering the same thing, as I myself developed a bad habit of running on the reserve gas for a couple of days. I think I should stop doing it, but at least I know it's not hurting my car.

Kthanks

 

[BadNewsBears]

Originally posted by: Roger
YOU DESIGNED THEM, YOU.


You absolutely crack me up.

YOU designed the block, heads, valve train and then custom fabricated them.

HAAHAHAHAHAHA

You don't even have the slightest idea what "design" means.

I purposely wrote the post the way I did to avoid this.
I added the word BUILD. I deigned the high performace build of the engine.
Roger your done