What the .... did i just see

[jessedevery]

was driving through robina in the gold coast this mornin and i saw a vn v8 with a hsv paintjob bodykit etc but on the back it looked like it had two really big oil filters close together hanging down from the rear drivers side bumper....was strange. does anyone know why


ps keep off the gold coast roads they are absolutely shocking over indy weekend, ever wanka and his lancer is out on the road trying to prove they an indy driver.

[starkeyholden]

Possibly a couple of aftermarket (such as holley) external fuel pumps, bloody noisy things they are (or one fuel pump and a swirlpot made to look the same)

[immortality]

i'd say it's some sort of aftermarket fuel filter setup also

[jessedevery]

was a noisy ***er, was missing the rear bumper so yeh maybe, whats a swirl pot

[calais_cruzin]

yeah talk about traffic jams on the coast, sat on the goldie hway in traffic near Q1 for ages, n it was still the same at 10pm, 2hrs later.

[azkwazere]

was missing the rear bumper so yeh maybe, whats a swirl pot

you proably just saw the mouting brackets, they look like filters....

aZk.

[jessedevery]

two white objects about the size of a lawn bowl (all i cud think of lol) about an inch apart just on one side.......bracket......???? my first thoughts was some elaborate nos setup.

[azkwazere]

what shape were they?

aZk.

[greenfoam]

Be aftermarket fuel pumps for sure

[Reaper]

was driving through robina in the gold coast this mornin and i saw a vn v8 with a hsv paintjob bodykit etc but on the back it looked like it had two really big oil filters close together hanging down from the rear drivers side bumper....was strange. does anyone know why

Wanker fuel pump/filters. Totally un-necessary on any street driven car.

Reaper

[AirStrike]

Wanker fuel pump/filters. Totally un-necessary on any street driven car.

Reaper

Not that it see's much street use, but my uncles HQ has a boot mounted fuel cell with twin holley black (from memory) fuel pumps. The stainless lines then run to twin filters mounted under the car, which as jessedevery has found out, are visable from the back of the car.

[Reaper]

Not that it see's much street use, but my uncles HQ has a boot mounted fuel cell with twin holley black (from memory) fuel pumps. The stainless lines then run to twin filters mounted under the car, which as jessedevery has found out, are visable from the back of the car.

I suspect the car does the vast majority of it's driving down a straight road with a ****load of green/red lights at the entry

Reaper

[AirStrike]

I suspect the car does the vast majority of it's driving down a straight road with a ****load of green/red lights at the entry

Reaper

See's most of its time driven at 5mph.................with the rears at 120mph

[V85000i]

sound like your car Airstrike! going by your new avtar anyway.

[jessedevery]

just looked like over size oil filters

[308vkcalais]

It mite be the oil filters.I've seen this sort of thing b4 aswell.V8 supercars run a dry sump set-up whereas the oil is pumped thru rails in the chasis & into filters located unda the drivers side rear.They normally have a oil cooler tucked in the front air dam sumwhere.Inside the boot is a tiny sump.That's why during races if they need to put oil in the engine they open the boot.It prevents the engine from running out of oil during hi speed conering.It maybe a real, but retired V8 racer, or simply just sumbody being a wannabe...

[immortality]

.Inside the boot is a tiny sump.

i don't think a 10ltr dry sump setup would be considered tiny. dry sump setups normally have lots more oil in em then a standard wet sump setup we have in our street weapons.

but to go back on topic, fuel filters i'd put my money on. there spin on/spin off type filters just like the oil filters you spin onto the block

[308vkcalais]

Go & look inside a proper v8 race car, then u'll see wat i'm talking about....

[MILD]

Wanker fuel pump/filters. Totally un-necessary on any street driven car.

Reaper

Thats a fairly big call given some of the cars that 'somehow' get registered... Could be necessary.