The car seemed to be stalling on hard right turns like we were running out of gas. As the problem was getting worse each lap, I brought the car in the check.
We thought we had 10 gallons in the car and might have burned 3-4. With a 16 gallon tank, we should definitely be able to add 5 gallons, maybe a little more.
We threw 5 gallons in the car and seemed to have plenty of room for more. So we started on the second 5 gallon jug. Amazingly all 5 gallons went in. So we though maybe it has less gas than we think and started on the 3rd five gallon jug. All of it went into the tank.
After a bit of head scratching, Torch looked under the car and saw a puddle…
So we pulled the access panel and realized the fuel tank was not closed up after the last of the fuel pump work. We were probably losing some on the track on hard turns as well as the rest just overflowed the tank when we were filling. At least the problem was obvious and happy to have it happen on Friday instead of Saturday.
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