Aside from the stock tank location?
Has anyone relocated the fuel tank somewhere else to increase trunk space?

When you get the RPI or Solo street race there is a ton of room where the muffler used to be
but I suspect you would change the handling if you moved the tank back. RPI does a cut out to make the area behind the trunk deeper.

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That actually is exactly what I want. Too bad they don't sell it as a kit!

You run into safety concerns with a gas tank behind the rear axle.

Hey it worked in the Pinto NOT

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I mainly wanted to look into moving the tank to gain trunk space. The suggested approach with that exhaust system achieves that without moving the tank so it satisfies my needs.

I was also hoping to hear there was a cavity between the passanger compartment and trunk that might be useful, but not moving the tank is even better.

In any case, if I did a relocation of the fuel tank, wherever it went, it would be a foam-filled bladder fuel cell to prevent leaks and fires in case of a collision.

For the sake of humor, there's always the passenger compartment, or at least the passenger seat--mitigating the obvious change to a front-end weight bias, there's the undoubted cachet of being able to quip (when at a fuel stop, smelling like benzene, wrapped in ancient leather and fighter-pilot goggles, to a pretty counter-maid): "Fuel Is My Co-pilot!"


And, then, too, there's always the driver's seat itself, of course...

But what's a convertible--or an aeroplane, for that matter, if not impraticable, wot?

Lucas may have "invented darkeness," as the old saying goes, but Pontiac has done no sin other than merely reinventing "creative luggage transport."

As an aside, when my parents married, the strapped everything they owned, somewhow, onto and into an Austin-Healy Sprite (TV-set included)...and roared off from the Mid-Appalachians back to Harvard--which says as much about their poverty-with-panache sensibilities as it does the limited luggage-hauling abilities of that venerable auto... Many an MG and Jag and Fiat X-19 later: wow, does the Sol act like a civilized machine with few (er, relatively few) compromises! Dry, too, eh? And the lights work? The parts don't have to come from overseas? A powertrain WARRANTY?! Ah, true blessings!

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Keep in mind that the top rests on the gas tank in its current configuration. Creating trunk space by moving the gas tank will leave nothing for it to rest on.

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If I had relocated the tank to make more trunk space, I was planning on leaving the "top" of the hump in place to keep the top in position. Instead, the RPI cutout should do the job!