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Old 01-31-2018 | 03:33 AM
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I am building a BVM F16 and will use a Cheeta 160 SE. I will use 1 smoke tank as extra fuel and plumb the system to run in series. Is the supplied pickup and tubing large enough to do this or should I upgrade to larger ID fuel system?
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I removed the smoke tanks on mine, never looked at the internals. You will want to check the pickups on the mains, mine were way too short.
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Never mind. Drilled everything our and upgraded to 3/16 pickups and tubing.
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Originally Posted by tp777fo
Never mind. Drilled everything our and upgraded to 3/16 pickups and tubing.
That's what I plan to do when my F-18 shows up. I have 3/16 ID clunks and fittings on my Jet Tech tanks in my Flashe's, I cant ever see myself going smaller. That 3/16 ID Tygon looked HUGE the first time I saw it! Fueling is so much nicer with that big line when you have multiple tanks. On the Flashes, my only choke points are the few spots I needed to use 3/16 tubing since that is 3/16 OD while all the other fittings are 3/16ID.

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