Aluminum Fuel Tank Project / EFI Fuel Cooling

I have driven the car on one trip since installing the tank.

The trip was about 35 miles to town and back.

The trip to town in the cool of the morning went well with no problems and little or no heat build up in the fuel tank.

The return trip home went well until 2 miles from home. The engine started to miss and want to die.
I managed to get the car home and into the shop.
There was some heat build up in the tank, but it was not HOT to the touch as in the past. Only slightly warm.

I let the car set overnight so that things would be "cold".

On start-up and after warming to operating temp the next morning, the car still had the miss and wanted to die.

The fuel pump did not sound right, so I dropped the tank and removed it to bench test.

The pump was not running or pumping the way it should.

The pump is a Aeromotive A1000 that was installed new in 2005 along with a Aeromotive Fuel Pump Speed Controller.

I called Aeromotive Tech Support and talked with the Tech manager.
He remembered talking to me in 2005 and still had notes and records of those calls.
He determined that the pump was toast and gave me a RMA for return. He also had me return the Fuel Pump Speed Controller.

Four days later he called and told me that not only the A1000 was toast, the Fuel Pump Speed Controller was also toast.

Aeromotive replaced the A1000 for $200.

Now the GOOD part, the Tech manager replace the 9 year old Fuel Pump Speed Controller with latest Aeromotive billet Fuel Pump Speed Controller for NO CHARGE.

That is Customer Service......

He had me remove the optional Aeromotive check valve from the pump on the reinstal.

Since re-installing the pump and tank, I have not driven the car any distance to check the fuel heating issue.

The car now runs Fine with no miss and does not want to die.

Without the check valve it is hard to start, so when I get a chance I will drop the tank and reinstall it.

Herb