Hmmm,
I've had a long association with this engine and 230bhp from a Pinto sounds like an optomistic rolling road to me
and a lot of them that do these RR shoot outs are reading high! After all no one wants to pay £50/hour to be told there pride and joy was 30hp less than expected.....
A few years back Ron Harris was the daddy for quick Pintos and he was struggling to get past 200 flywheel HP and that was costing well over £5000
For that you can get a fully sorted cossie duratec.
I was witness to just such a duratec being tested on a proper test bed to industry standards and that made a genuine 224bhp@8000rpm.
So on a rolling road shootout that should make 300bhp easy.......
BV.