Am I stuck with this tank

[myrcbud]

My car which is a FG Sportsline late model and it comes with this tank.
http://www.davesmotors.com/s.nl/it.A/id.2139/.f

Can I replace it with this?
http://www.davesmotors.com/fg8384

Hope any of of my onroad friends out there can help me here. I know it's just a tank, but I'll be doing a restoration and I'd like to modernize the car a little.

 

[Sharkey]

as long as you don't have a short wheelbase car it shouldnt be much of an issue to swap. at worst you have to drill a couple new holes in the chassis

 

[myrcbud]

The chassis looks similar to this one.
http://rc-car-online.de/shop/en/pro...5-wheelbase-fg-mini-and-porsche-gt3-rsr-.html

It's a 535 wheel base though. I believe it's dicontinued. I picked it up on flea bay for an upgrade.

 

[renbar]

ive just fitted one of these tanks to mine mate I had to fit it sideways due to me not wanting to move hydros but it will fit the right way all I had to do to fit was make a plate from plastic that fits the chassis same shape as the chassis tank cutout as theres no way of drilling the chassis its holes are right where you need to drill and that chassis has 2 holes for tank but that tank has 3

 

[myrcbud]

ive just fitted one of these tanks to mine mate I had to fit it sideways due to me not wanting to move hydros but it will fit the right way all I had to do to fit was make a plate from plastic that fits the chassis same shape as the chassis tank cutout as theres no way of drilling the chassis its holes are right where you need to drill and that chassis has 2 holes for tank but that tank has 3

Could you have drilled a new hole?
Do you have a picture?

 

[renbar]

not really cause the cut outs in the chassis a slap bang where you need to drill you might be able to get 1 hole drilled but its not really enough

ill get a couple of pics taken ive not got any at the mo only just got the tank fitted I had the old old tank the hardest part for me was working around the hydros as I didn't want to move them give me 10 mins and I will sort some pics mate

 

[renbar]

ok here goes



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how I went about fitting the tank I used the black bottom tank bracket as a template and cut out some bin lid plastic the same shape with 2 holes for original fixing then worked out where tank would fit the drill the 3 holes for the new tank and used 2 screws with nuts to mount the tank with bracket

 

[myrcbud]

ok. i think i got it. i'll let you know how it turns out when I start. thanks a million for the help and info.

 

[myrcbud]

renbar, I've got that same chassis plate. Thanks a million for your help.