Pinto Car Club of America

I have a 73 Pinto Vintage Roadrace car that I use for auto cross. It still has the original fuel tank, but I think it may have been modified for road racing with a bladder insert or foam because I have some sort of plastic honeycomb looking stuff collecting at the top of my fuel filler neck just behind the cap.  I am assuming this is some 30 year old plastic of foam breaking down and somehow floating up the filler neck. So I am going to replace it with an updated fuel cell. I would like to get a fuel cell with a built in fuel sender so I can tell of I am going to run out of gas. Will a 90 ohm fuel sender unit that you get with a fuel cell work with the factory Pinto guage?

Stock Pinto fuel circuit is 10 ohms = full, 73 ohms = empty.  So, something like this: http://www.summitracing.com/parts/CIN-SN39/ (http://www.summitracing.com/parts/CIN-SN39/) should work.

Mike

Well EP.
I know for a fact that a stock Pinto Sender & Tank worked fairly good with my AutoMeter gauge in my Modified dash. Never ran out of gas.

Should be an easy fix , BTW which cell are you going to use?

Pintosopher

Sender on an autocross car?  I have an eight (8) gal cell in my Pinto and never use over two (2) gal in a single days worth of autocrossing.  Jegs has street rod cell's with a sender.

I will be going with a plastic Jaz 8 gallon with remote fill and foam and I am going to use the sending unit that Mike suggested. I am trying to use the factory guage to try to cut the cost of a new guage. I'm on a pretty tight budget.
I wanted to convert the cat to e85 ethinol. It cheeper than 110 leaded, and it is legal to drive on the street. I have the car licenesed to drive on the street, so that's why I'm putting in the sender. I have already ran out of gas twice. I don't drive it on he street a lot, just to and from the autocross, but I find it more comfortable to have a guage to look at.