Hmmm... Your Land Cruiser wasn't made in America...
Spare fuel bladders in the doors?
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Hmmm... Your Land Cruiser wasn't made in America...
Why? Oxygen doesn't burn.
Despite what is shown in the movies (Dead Pool comes to mind), oxygen will NOT "explode" when exposed to a flame. It will make whatever is burning burn MUCH faster, but it will not explode.
I should win an award or something for making it this far. I wasted all my MUD time on this.
How about custom fuel cells? You may want to rethink not having nozzles in the doors. You may need to jettison excess fuel at any moment.
Because zombies and Soviet made nuclear submarines with heat seeker missiles.
Because zombies and Soviet made nuclear submarines with heat seeker missiles.
You make a good point.
I think he's gonna need ejection flares as well like the Angel Fire flares from the planes so that they cannot target him as closely, because someone's gonna want to.
I think the build is in need of much more than ejection flares :-(
I think @nukegoat may be a bot created by the forum to incite violence and drum up web traffic in the 80 series section 
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Fantastic idea!
As proof of concept I went into the shed and grabbed all the old camelbacks I don't use and duct tape them to the back of the passenger front seat and used tygon tubing to the filler neck. I'll just squeeze the fuel into the tank as needed.
On my way to the gas station to test this all out my head gasket blew. I can't say definitativey that the new fuel bladders and blown head gasket are connected, but @nukegoat I would abandon this idea unless you are feeling really confident with your JB Weld head gasket.
As proof of concept I went into the shed and grabbed all the old camelbacks I don't use and duct tape them to the back of the passenger front seat and used tygon tubing to the filler neck. I'll just squeeze the fuel into the tank as needed.
On my way to the gas station to test this all out my head gasket blew. I can't say definitativey that the new fuel bladders and blown head gasket are connected, but @nukegoat I would abandon this idea unless you are feeling really confident with your JB Weld head gasket.
Have to admit - it's taken me a while to warm up to @nukegoat's idea here, and to get past all the Negative Nates on this forum...
But I'm liking it more and more.
Think of the possibilities for collision safety enhancement.
If you put pressure valved damping orifices in the door tanks, something like what's in shock absorbers, but facing upwards above the car.
Then, in a side impact, all that damaging collision energy from the incoming vehicle would be converted into a controlled upward geyser, against the force of gravity, and damped.
This replaces side impact air bags, and uses the otherwise useless door volume for, not only one, but two benefits.
I call that a win-win.
But I'm liking it more and more.
Think of the possibilities for collision safety enhancement.
If you put pressure valved damping orifices in the door tanks, something like what's in shock absorbers, but facing upwards above the car.
Then, in a side impact, all that damaging collision energy from the incoming vehicle would be converted into a controlled upward geyser, against the force of gravity, and damped.
This replaces side impact air bags, and uses the otherwise useless door volume for, not only one, but two benefits.
I call that a win-win.
Can you make sure you design some for the mid-late 70s Chevy/GMC pickups with gas tanks outside of the frame?
Wow..... this escalated quickly
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Not really. We're at 9 pages and not really any serious sodomy.Wow..... this escalated quickly
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At the rate you're denting doors, it'll be more like 2-3... or was that @richardlillard1 ?
If you pack your sliders with tannerite, or any type of binary explosive (ANFO, Ammonal, those little paper popper things) then you may be able to achieve a simple but effective reactive armor.
So any side impact would have no chance to ignite the gasoline in each door due to the explosion destroying any incoming vehicle.
So any side impact would have no chance to ignite the gasoline in each door due to the explosion destroying any incoming vehicle.
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I think tannerite requires <2000fps impact for detonation, so you'll likely need to piss off that other driver enough that they start shooting.
I didn't read the rest of the thread, but you are welcome anytime experiencing riding as passenger in a 40 with the tank under right under the passenger seat 
Why in the world would you bring physics into this discussion?