Aircraft style capactive fuel level sender
11-21-2017, 11:07 AM
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Aircraft style capactive fuel level sender
Prepping for a the WRL COTA race next weekend! Can anyone advise on where to buy an aircraft style capactive fuel level sender? Do we also need a new gauge? Thanks!
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11-23-2017, 11:24 AM
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We ran a capacitive sensor several years ago when we won the Thunderhill 25 hours. Choose a sensor that matches the programmable inputs on your data Dash. We fed ours into a Racepak IQ3. If you are using a standalone gauge then it has to have a matching scale.
We ran a capacitive sensor several years ago when we won the Thunderhill 25 hours. Choose a sensor that matches the programmable inputs on your data Dash. We fed ours into a Racepak IQ3. If you are using a standalone gauge then it has to have a matching scale.
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11-23-2017, 02:17 PM
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We're using this to adapt the stock sender to our AiM dash.
ICM Fuel Sender
We previously used this:
https://www.summitracing.com/parts/a...AaAu3nEALw_wcB
I forget which setting we used, some ford pre-set, seemed to work. Stayed on 100% for ~10-20 minuets, and we could do ~5-10 minutes on 0. It offers a custom map if you want to pour gas in 1 gallon at a time, but we never went through the trouble. Lasted a few years before it stopped displaying anything. Figured our run of faulty alternators had fried it. Bought a new one, got it to work once, then we filled and it got stuck at 100%. Never did find out why...
ICM Fuel Sender
We previously used this:
https://www.summitracing.com/parts/a...AaAu3nEALw_wcB
I forget which setting we used, some ford pre-set, seemed to work. Stayed on 100% for ~10-20 minuets, and we could do ~5-10 minutes on 0. It offers a custom map if you want to pour gas in 1 gallon at a time, but we never went through the trouble. Lasted a few years before it stopped displaying anything. Figured our run of faulty alternators had fried it. Bought a new one, got it to work once, then we filled and it got stuck at 100%. Never did find out why...
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11-23-2017, 08:03 PM
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... or use something like this https://www.speedhut.com/gauge/G-FUE...(programmable) . Simple to program, worked well enough. I never had much luck using the USM with the Racepak, and went back to a gauge when it just became too much trouble. ICM quoted freight to here of about double the cost of that thing, and they wouldn't engage to try and improve the freight rate so big thumbs down there.
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