My son's north american Merkur XR4Ti came with a turbo 2.3 Lima bolted to a T9. It's my understanding that the pinto 4 speed is basically a T9 without 5th gear.
**The following information is for his C4 automatic transmission swap for a different project but may be helpful to someone**
We fitted a C4 **automatic** transmission that came from a 1972 2.0L pinto to the 2.3L Lima. The 2L bellhousing bolts on but the dowels on the Lima are too big for the transmission but can be rectified with stepped dowels or simply (not recommended) drilling the trans holes out . The flexplate to crank bolt pattern is different between the 2 & 2.3L (smaller bolt circle on 2L) and a 1975 2.3 (C4)Pinto flexplate was required for his combination as I didn't feel there was enough material to safely redrill. Both were 135 tooth. 2L or 2.3 starter worked with this combo. 2L converter (4 bolt mounting) was retained.
Jeff
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