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Old 6th July 2012, 06:04 PM
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Is the DOHC significantly better on fuel than a Pinto ?
The wheel has not been reinvented here but has been refined. The pinto is a cracking unit as are most ford lumps but things have moved on. The pinto with all the right bits on would knock out some serious power but in standard road form with a carb the later stuff has to be better. Someone wrote somewhere that a carb is just an organised fuel leak and its true really.

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