As AshG says pinto production ended well before '98. 1989 for cars and 1992 for transit vans I believe. As for unleaded it's a popular myth that late pinto's were all unleaded. The only pinto's fitted with hardened valve seats were for gas conversions and this was very short lived as valve seats had a tendancy to drop out - a problem that it would seem has not been solved by the aftermarket conversions especially if big valves or high lift cams are used!
HTH BV.
PS even the 205 block is only good to 2.1 unless you go for a stroker crank and a zetec would be much cheaper! some racers do bore to 2.3 but this bore is bigger than the bore needed when sleeving the block and such a block would have a very short life - may be 100hrs at the most....
Last edited by Big Vern : 16th October 2009 at 09:37 PM.
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