the ecu

Just fit a bike engine and be done with it, car engines are toooo heavy and saves all that farting about malarky with wires

[les g]

if i was gonna run a pinto on carbs
i would give a lot of consideration to a Bestek (PLEASE GOOGLE)
IGNITION/DIZZY SETUP
for years and years all the f2 stockcar and rally boys have been using
carbs and a bestek ignition approx £200 and they do loads of different advance curves to suit your aplication
hth
cheers les g

[aerosam]

Personally I's stick with the ford EFi system to get you going and on the road. You can always change the setup later.

From experience, i can echo TT in telling you that wiring an EFI pinto lump up is a piece of p1ss.

[twinturbo]

I ran my 24V V6 on the garage floor with just 4 wires for power and earths. Pinto is no different.

TT

[jasongray5]

Originally Posted by twinturbo

Not so, all sierras have at the very very minimum had transistorized ignition amplification. Most carb models run a variation on ESC ( electronic spark control ) which makes things a little more controled.

No such thing as Points on a sierra unless you go and fit a capri or tina dizzy to a pinto.

CVH and DOHC just have HT distributors with no spark timing control built in. They do need either their correct ESC or EDIS control. or third party spark control

The wiring is easy if you keep the engine loom.

TT

I wasnt exclusively talking about seirra's

[monsterob]

bloody hell you lot want to chuck a honda vtec into a mini clubman and make your own loom.

minis use ford edis to make them run in the wet with a bit of megajolt !!

im mocking as ive still got a full omega wiring loom in the loft and the haynes diagram is pants as usual at least with the honda i had the manufacturers manual pdf. still ill leave that bridge untill i try to swim under it !!!!