Pinto Car Club of America

A few questions regarding plumbing in the fuel system on my Turbo Pinto project:

1. I've got the Ford pick up truck electric fuel pump.  Before I re-invent the wheel, I thought I'd ask were most of you mount it?

2. Ford used those slip fit and plastic clip fuel connectors.  It seems irrelevant  what one uses prior to the pump, but what do others use to get from the pump to the fuel lines that hang off the fuel rail?
  The T/C had those plastic fuel lines and I don't thing they are short enough or follow the contours of the Pinto underside to be of any use.  Has anyone used "fuel injection" spec-ed hose and tight hose clamps (therefore bypassing the Ford connectors and clips), or is the pressure too high?

3. The T/C basically had three lines to the gas tank. There was the fuel feed, the fuel return and the tank vent.  The Pinto (1973) has only two lines.  How have others dealt with this? I think the vent should remain the vent.  The way it is structured it seems it would aerate the fuel too much to use for a return (and then I'd have no vent).
   I was thinking about pulling one of the removable items (sender, fill pipe and adding a tubing for the fuel return. Any comments?

  Not knowing how picky the California smog rules may get (1973  has none - for now) I want to make sure that if the dreaded day came.... I was ready. Thus my reason for making sure the smog items are in place.

Thanks for any input, Tom

i did use the plastic lines from a 84 tc. works fine and i also used the tank vent for the return but had to remove the vent and drill out the nipple cause its just a pinhole. i then drilled a vent hole in the gascap under the fingerhandle.  works fine for the last 1.5 years. i used the factory duckbill flexlines from the intake to the spot where i used metal repair line for ford cars. and double clamped the plastic lines to those.

Thanks for the tip about the repair piece for the plastic line. I didn't know they existed.

As it is, I had to (ever so carefully) straighten out the whole steel piece from the fuel rail hose to its full length (the steel part).  I then re-bent it (again, ever so carefully) to follow the contours of the original Pinto line. It reaches to the point of about 3" back along the outer edge of the Pinto.
I left about 4" of plastic on the steel line to connect to the remaining plastic line that goes from there to the filter and pump.

So, as it works out it is about 50-50, steel in the front and plastic in the rear.

Tom