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chris-stockton
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v8 kit car expansion tank

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hello, anyone with a rv8 in a type 7?

im wondering what you have used for the expansion tank?


93 tvr chimaera 430
91 westfield 430

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Hi,
I'm using the standard one supplied by Westfield like the one on this guy's page:

http://westiebuild.blogspot.co.uk/2009/ ... -tank.html

On a Westfield it sits on the scuttle and needs a small bracket to make it level. Seems to suit my car fine and I can just get it high enough to work properly.

Mike

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cheers, do you know what car its off?
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MK 1 or 2 Fiesta I think.

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seight wrote:MK 1 or 2 Fiesta I think.
I have used Volvo 240 in the past - nice round compact unit - but recently used one of these on another project.

http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/221631382108? ... EBIDX%3AIT

Compact and very good quality.
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I'm using the standard TVR Griffiths one off my donor ... left one (and I removed the rad swirl tank on the right although in hindsight I need not have - longish storey with cooling problems).

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Post by Seight-V8 »

mines definitely a ford, but was supplied in 1997, thought at the time it was from a ford sierra.

But doing a google search mine is definitely the same as this one.

http://www.retrofordinternational.com/f ... 5635-p.asp

So yep...looks like a mk2 fiesta one.

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scott

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