Pinto - rebuild or not?!?!?!

[robo]

Well my mate has an old westfield with a live axle and a 1600 crossflow in it. Its on dcoe 40`s and dizzy with points.That engine was made up out of two he had and he stuck a kent cam kit in it. It owes him nothing and its been in there for 15+ years , its good on fuel, bloody reliable, sounds good and I reckon you would kill youself trying to get past it round here on our roads. Old yes ,crap no way. And a pinto is better than that !!

Bob

[AshG]

haven driven my car with a pinto in it for a whole year and several others i can safely say they are crap.

last year i took it to Exeter show 160mile from my house. it used double the fuel of the people with zetecs and had no chance of keeping up even with bike carbs nice exhaust and a proper setup at ATSPEED. when i got home it was ripped out and replaced for the saab turbo engine. it has almost 4 times the power and easily does 30mpg regardless of my driving style.

all i can say is been there done it got the t shirt.

if you just want a nice little car to poodle about in then fine fit a pinto. if you want a serious tool that will do everything then fit something better.

a 2.0 zetec with bike carbs and a mejajolt is a very very simple setup and will cost you under £500 all done and dusted.

my saab turbo engine cost me under a grand to do the only reason for the added cost was all the silicon hose i need to plumb up the turbo and inter cooler and the ecu

[TheArf]

Hows the back end these days Ash is it straght now. Amazing what can happen with loads of power