Pinto Car Club of America
Shiny is Good! => General Pinto Talk => Topic started by: fairmont on July 28, 2004, 07:41:43 PM
hi pinto fans
i am new to the site and i have had alot of pintos in the past i am currently looking at a 74 pinto wagon can any one tell me what kind of milage thay get and how much gas thay hold
thank you
todd <fairmont> :)
My 78 wagon has a 13?14? gallon tank and got rougly 17mpg.
My '74 runabout has a 12.5 gal tank & gets around 25MPG (mine's a 2.3L auto)
Once I managed to put something like 13.2 gallons in my Pinto. I was driving on fumes. Now that the car has fuel injection, I don't let the tank get much lower than 1/8 tank or it will $uck air on a left hand corner. If I drive conservatively and stay at the local 55mph limit, I can get 33-34 mpg in the summer on my 18 mile commute.
Hi Strawboss,
I'm a newbie here but have enjoyed reading the posts. I have this week off so I'm looking a little closer.
I've been considering an upgrade to EFI this winter as a project for my '76 runabout. Any advice would be appreciated. Did you pull your EFI off a Ranger or other? I'm also wondering what electronics need to be salavaged at the same time.
I really don't know what my intake came off of. I found it in a junkyard in the back of a Chevy truck about 12 years ago. My guess is it came off a Ranger, since part of the EGR valve was higher than the throttle body. I don't think it would fit under a Mustang or Thunderbird hood. I removed the valve and mounting boss and welded up the hole in the manifold.
In addition to that, I cut about 1/2 inch out of the upper intake, so the throttle body sits closer to the valve cover. My hood clearance is still near zero. I have a small outward dent in the hood from the intake to prove it. New motor mounts seem to have kept the intake from contacting the hood since then.
If I were to do it again, I would look for an intake and valve cover from a '87-'88 Thunderbird turbo coupe. The intake is lower, and the valve cover has a recessed area for throttle body clearance.
I did not use the stock Ford wiring or electronics, but that would be a good way to go. I used an aftermarket ECU from Electromotive.