vs 5lt running out of fuel

[bottleinspector]

was wondering if any others have encountered the same problem i am having,
my car has a tendancy to break traction from time to time and then starts going round and round in circles, usually steering from the rear (its ok as it mostly happens in the car park at work when its empty and sometimes on this big concrete pad at a mates farm)...but when it goes around fast on less than 1/2 a tank
of fuel it cuts out....is there a problem with the car or will it require a surge tank and external fuel pump, if so, what pump to use..its a basically standard car, k&n, zorst, and soon to be greenfoam tune...any help would be great
car is a manual 5L vs

[The1]

spend less on tires and more on fuel.

Check fuel sender unit in tank

[bottleinspector]

spend less on tires and more on fuel.

Check fuel sender unit in tank

its a bit hard when i get tites at the price i do....what do you mean about the sender unit?
check what exactly

[westbad]

you will have a broken swirl pot or possible fuel return line has come off inside the tank.
Take the sender unit and pump out the tank to make sure everything is ok.

[bottleinspector]

sweet, thanks for the info...gonna have a busy week next week

[Dinwoodie]

Maybe stop driving like a douchebag on national highway and drive the car like an adult and you wont have a problem with your fuel.

[bottleinspector]

Maybe stop driving like a douchebag on national highway and drive the car like an adult and you wont have a problem with your fuel.

obviously didnt read the post too well, did we?

[Dinwoodie]

obviously didnt read the post too well, did we?

Obviously you didnt read the post too well quote - "(its ok as it mostly happens in the car park at work when its empty and sometimes on this big concrete pad at a mates farm)"

[bottleinspector]

you know nothing about the situation dinwoodie, you dont know that this stuff goes on at my work when EVERYONE except the few of us boys who want to have some fun stay behind to do so.......who in there right mind would pump heli's on a national highway, or whatever you want to call it?, get off your horse and stop judging when you know nothing about the situation apart from 3 sentences worth of information...and how exactly are ALL car parks national or public property????, my boss owns the joint and he is right there with us, even participating.

edit - or was it the MOSTLY part you had the problem?, if so my bad, it should have read always.

[Dinwoodie]

you know nothing about the situation dinwoodie, you dont know that this stuff goes on at my work when EVERYONE except the few of us boys who want to have some fun stay behind to do so.

This is the exact reason i was told to stay in school.

Next time you do it, ring the local police station to come and watch and they can explain about national highways and fines for you.

Anyway you seem to be turning into a nasty pasty so i think it's a good idea if we don't see each other anymore.

Oh and i think it's meant to be "get off your High Horse", Peace

[bottleinspector]

i'm not here to make any enemies, the last thing i want is some bloody argument over what you and i think is right and wrong.
i dont drive like a tool on public roads.
why is it ok to have a burnout comp at summernats or powercruise but not on any old private property, is it because of permits?, if so, so be it.
nobody gets hurt when and where we do skids, the show must go on.

[VrWagz1]

Far as im aware private property is yours to rip all the skids you like. In relation to the problem it could be a problem relating to the return line inside the tank coming loose, jst follow it in from the outside, it should dump back over the top of the pump. If not the edges of the swirl pot that the pump sits in might be broken. If so a new tank is usually the easiest remedy for that. It could also jst be the style and way you are doin it.

[clubby_you]

my clubby does this when doing a fast sharp uturn when my tank is below half i have been told bye a holden mechanic that it is just a bad swirl pot design in the fuel tank .
i was going to fit a after market swirl pot and external pump after i finish rebuilding my motor
cheers doug

[strgas]

swirl pot was not designed for sustained circle work or high speed cornering , car is being driven beyond its design limits and will always happen when fuel level is below the top of the swirl pot .

[Brett_jjj]

A couple of young blokes I know got warned about a similar thing.The police told them that if you can drive straight into the carpark from a public street,in other words,no gate to open,then its classed as a
public thoroughfare.It has to be fenced off from public roads with a gate to be classed as private.This is in NSW.

[strgas]

Roadlaws apply to carparks where normal access is available . excessive noise from burnouts is about the best they will try to book you with when on private property .

[odysseyesm]

If it's not any of the above, the fuel pick up in the tank maybe blocked from crud or sumthing like that.

Or the fuel pickup design is poor - I doubt that this is the problem otherwise there'd be copmplaints about fuel starvation.
A previous car I owned (no names or I'll be disowned from here ) used to cough & splutter on sustained hard RH turns with a slight uphill when I had less than 1/4 tank.
It wouldn't worry most people but it just happened that I used a particular road with that sort of a corner almost everyday and it would happen without fail. They addressed the problem in the next model.