Flush mount Marine/Aircraft/Motorcycle fuel cap

Is no one doing this mod anymore? Surely there is someone that can shed some more light on this one. What have you done?

Steve

First I have seen it, thinking it is a must have for my build

I incorporated one into mine. The nicer one's were quite pricy:

http://www.rc-tech.net/pantera1/sidevent/sidevent.htm

Beautiful!

i used my original gill but hinged it and install this beneath.
cheers cj

with gill closed.

Chris,

That is really a neat idea. How does is stay shut? Is it latched or just spring loaded?

Devin

That thing is bitchen Chris!!!!! In other words, I like it ALOT!!!

i'll get a couple of more photos and post, but 3 strong magnets are panel bonded to the gill and the hold her shut, also have a thin wire cable to hold it from openng too far and scratching the paint, have had it up to 100mph and still remained closed , have only had car on road for the past couple of weeks, will get more completed pics up soon.

cheers guys cj

Chris I'd really like to see how you did this. I think its a great idea!

Chris that is a great fix/idea. Really well done.

Look forward to more pics and maybe parts list.

Very nice. Never would've thought about doing it that way.

The first of those type fuel doors were from surplus or home-built aircraft (WWW.aircraft-spruce.com) in the L.A. area, but a few were ex-motorcycle gas tank caps. As for options, I left the stock L outside filler door on the left and duplicated the entire thing as a mirror image on the right side. The new right side door covers the radaitor cap attached to a larger aluminum surge tank. Just in case I didn't like its looks, I didn't cut the stock die-cast gill but made a silicone rubber mold of it, then cast a new gill out of fiberglas & resin, and cut that up. But since it's been on there since 2002, I think its there to stay....
Now thinking about routing the oil dipstick under that door too, so I can check all engine needs without opening the decklid. I moved the stock dipstick to the rear of a 10-qt Aviaid oil pan sump, so it's pretty much right there anyway, but the 3-1/2" door is kind of cramped for space. Needs more thought this winter.

Wow, I love that!

My fuel cap is fairly basic.
I went for the race look & installed the Aston Martin 60’s type race cap similar to what the GR4 had.
I took a mould off of the original louver panel so I did not have to cut up the original aluminium part.
Made a new louver panel in Fibreglass.

I really like Chris’s installation, very stealth !

Regards,
Tony.

This is the internal spout I made to go between the cap & tank.
Has an alloy cover panel inside.

Regards,
Tony.

And here you can see the new aluminium fuel tank insulation panel with fuel filter mounted external.
The top of the fuel tank is also covered with an alloy panel.
Regards,
Tony.

right will try and show what i did.
found an existing gas flap hinge of correct shape. believe this was from a subaru impreza.
cut hole to fit. turns out could have been a little smaller. also all this should have been done when car was in bare metal not back from paint shop.

showing hinge in place

another

we had good fabricators in the shop and made a recessed panel to fit the aero cap into. ( if not recessed cap would make gill sit out from car.), so had to cut hole in car panel and panel bond new panel in place used the cap and some alloi strips to hold in place to set panel bond.
angain if we had thought of this sooner could have spot welded into place and would have seemed factor.
also would have prefered a large hole saw as cutting freehand was ok but not perfect.

note that this is a double hinge system if the gill is hing directly to the impreza hinge the angel is wrong and the gill will not be able to open very far and will chip car paint work.
we just welded a comerical hinge from hardware store to the car hinge. and then panel bonded the hardware store hinge to the the gill. sorry photos not great was thinking about making hte thing work not taking step by step pics. so am doing this in arears.

have added a wire cabel to the car and the gill so that gill will not drop back too far and chip car paint.
I am using three strong about ¾ inch by 1/4 round magnets used for keeping cabinet doors closed to secure the whole system closed, seems to be working hit 120 mph yesterday and still not blowen off.
i didn't have a filler tube to go to the new cap so i bought a 2 in bend and faricated the thing to fit and its conected to the aero with fuel rated hose and SS hose clamp. the bend came out very well so we chromed it.

photo of the pipe from tank to aero cap. you may have noticed another small black cap under the gill also. while i was doing this mod we decided to move the window washer tank from in the front to under the wheel arch also and have plumbed a new pump under there also. this just cleaned up the front trunk alittle more.
looking at this pic i need to do some dusting.
hope this is of interest, if any more question plez ask. cheers all cj

Hi, Pantera Performance Center in Castle Rock can machine your side panel and they have a complete setup also available. I initially purchased one similar to the one you talked about, but the round key lock is kinda cheap, but the fit is better with the 45 degree angle than the straight one everybody uses. At least for my 71 it was.

JOEB,

Just checked this. Thanks for responding. I sent PPC an email to ask about it. My car is a 74 and it is nearly impossible to fill the tank I think due to the modern (I'm in California) gas pump nozzles.

Steve