Big Vern,
I'm persuaded by your cycnism. From what I've read, getting a 2.0 litre Pinto up to 150 bhp isn't too tricky, but getting it up in to the high one hundreds is difficult/expensive (see Burton's brochure/web site which has brief tuning guides for each Ford engine type), and before reading that article (in Classic Ford) I'd never read of a Pinto producing over 200 bhp.
My humble 1.6 Pinto (70 bhp?) straight from my Saphire will be adedequate for me, at the moment
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