The pinnacle of cool! (IMHO)

Excellent mod Mikael! I like it.
Did you get rid of the blinking light too? I mean; when the tank is close to empty.

Hi Espen
The blinking light is now in the gauge itself, just like in a Pantera. So I have two unsused warning lights on the dash now

That is cool. There must have been something in the air this past week. I was talking to my aunt about this very topic. I remember her constantly switching back and forth between the two tanks to keep them even. We talked about the fact that she would try to note the difference in the weight side to side. Then play with the gas tanks. She mentioned that one of her cars had a complex setup to try out. It gave the driver the ability to transfer from tank to tank. She said she left it on once and gas poured from the side filler cap.
She noted that the car would not sell without the clock so the one gauge was the only option. Funny she said they could never get Vega to make the clock look closer to the other gushes. "Always looked off and no better with the digital"

No auto balancing? What?!

Lol

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Originally posted by No Quarter:
The blinking light is now in the gauge itself..

Yeah, I got that Mikael.
What I meant was the light coming on and off constantly, while the fuel sloshes around in an almost empty tank.
My Deauville does that. Planned on using a relay to keep it on at the first blink, but still on the list.

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That is cool. There must have been something in the air this past week. I was talking to my aunt about this very topic. I remember her constantly switching back and forth between the two tanks to keep them even. We talked about the fact that she would try to note the difference in the weight side to side. Then play with the gas tanks. She mentioned that one of her cars had a complex setup to try out. It gave the driver the ability to transfer from tank to tank. She said she left it on once and gas poured from the side filler cap.
She noted that the car would not sell without the clock so the one gauge was the only option. Funny she said they could never get Vega to make the clock look closer to the other gushes. "Always looked off and no better with the digital"

I've looked for a second gauge for some time, it had to be exactly like the one I had already. I actually bought the second gauge from rscorse in February. The green is not as faded as the other gauges in my Longchamp for natural reasons, so I had this unused gauge in my house window on the sunny side to try to fade it a bit before installing, so this has been a long time project :-)

I now have the clock, which I'll install later in the center console, may have to move the radio a bit to get it to look not cramped, which involves cutting and welding, so had no time today. I think it looks pretty close to the others gauges in font etc, as opposed to many other clocks I've seen. And strangely, it works!

About the weight, I always empty the left tank first, so my own weight cancels out the right tank. BTW, often wondered why the Pantera tank wasn't on the right, for weight balance.

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What I meant was the light coming on and off constantly, while the fuel sloshes around in an almost empty tank.

Ah ok, yes I understand. Normally when it comes on it stays on, but hard cornering or braking (or accelerating ;-)) can make it blink for a while.
A good conversation piece BTW, my wife and others almost screaming when driving and seeing that bright red warning light on the dash: "What's wrong?!". "Don't worry, it's a DeTomaso". I actually years ago bought blue replacements from a UK source, but when they lit up, the blue turned white, trashed that idea.

My clock

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I was talking to my aunt about this very topic.

Wellis, I think you have far more interesting conversations with your aunt than most of us have...

She was in a good mood until her horses lost this weekend. When she is happy I hear all kinds of things, but when she is un-happy....well the car business is not something that she recalls being "happy" in the end. You would never have thought it would end that way when I was a kid.

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You would never have thought it would end that way when I was a kid.

Must have been a grueling experience to see it all slowly dissolve.

Write a book, the inside story, with details about why the factory did this and that and not something else. I'll buy the first copy, signed please

Wouldn't a balance tube from the bottom of one tank to the other work? Then all you would need would be one gauge, sender and pickup?

It would, but you'd lose the double safety of being able to drive even with one tank leaking, one fuel pump faulty, one filter clogged, one fuel hose faulty etc. Built to cross the European continent in style, speed and luxury...

That would be boring.

It would be an adventure. Aren't all Detomaso vehicles an adventure?

Look at all the new people and friends that you make when you break down on the road?

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Originally posted by No Quarter:
It would, but you'd lose the double safety of being able to drive even with one tank leaking, one fuel pump faulty, one filter clogged, one fuel hose faulty etc.

Isn't that like driving a Pantera?

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Isn't that like driving a Pantera?

Yes and any other "normal" car...

Yup. Dual tanks are the only way to fly! With almost 40 gallons I can make it to the store and back with my six pack. Sometimes a detour is mandatory. (before beer of course).
Cross over tube and single gauge and pump. Plenty of time to talk while filling up.

Cross over tubing and associated transfer pumps airplane style would be even cooler. If you are concerned about leaking tanks and clogged filters you can just do a little "fuel management" and then keep rolling.

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Originally posted by tyler5:
Yup. Dual tanks are the only way to fly! With almost 40 gallons I can make it to the store and back with my six pack. Sometimes a detour is mandatory. (before beer of course).
Cross over tube and single gauge and pump. Plenty of time to talk while filling up.

That is quite the EFI setup, who is the manufacturer or is it a custom build?

Finally got hold of a hole drill in the right size, and installed the clock. I had considered lowering the radio and have the clock in the center above the radio, but then the radio would touch the heater/AC sliders at the back, so I chose the easier solution to the right of the radio. Drilling in the leather was nerving