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Reply to "Too much YouTube? I'm about to order a Holley Sniper EFI system"

Lots of speed shops list pipe-to-AN fittings in all sorts of sizes. The tank plug is straight thread Metric which only adds to the complexity of hooking things up. So I suggest it may be simpler to tap the tank to SAE pipe. And as I said, a dangly christmas tree of fittings hanging down towards the road and the thin-ness of the tank bottom causes me some longevity concerns. Even simpler, one owner drilled a hole in the bolt-on filler elbow (below the gas cap) on top of the tank and added his return EFI fuel line to that easily removable part, rather than dealing with running an extra line directly into the actual fuel tank.

Don't remember if you said what your future intentions were with the Pantera, but your '73 fuel sending unit line ID can only suck enough gasoline for about 450 bhp. I and others have cut the fuel feed line off a new '73 fuel sending unit and replaced it with the next size larger line, without much problem. That size will flow about 600 bhp worth of fuel.  Both numbers are assuming suction feed to a carb. But a 50 psi EFI pump inside the stock fuel tank will flow lots more fuel thru stock sized lines than 450 bhp worth. How fast d'you wanna go?

One more thought: the Pantera is a SMALL 2-seat car with a BIG engine and a robust 5-speed tranny shoehorned into it. The 'little' 2 seat Pontiac Fiero is an inch wider, an inch longer and an inch taller than a Pantera, and weighs close to the same. Yet people often think of the Pantera as a 'big' sports car. Park yours next to a late model Ford GT sometime, and you'll  see what I mean. Good luck.

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