Stupid says: 2.0litre Ford engine potential??

I am going to be breaking a MkV RS2000 in the next few weeks - tweaked 170bhp engine less than 12 months since full rebuild. If you're interested.

Yup. The Naderites caught Ford out in court, when an internal memo was "produced" via skulduggery that showed management had done a cost-benefit analysis of x amount of steel protection versus x amount of injuries to passengers.

Ford settled after losing in trial court.

This horrorific equation-making of how much money to spend to avoid x amount of injury has led to a robust trade by lawyers in products liability. To the point that this week, the sole remaining new manufacturer of aero carbs has announced cessation of business due to lawsuits, where they are always named after a crash, but never held at fault, still costing them huge insurance premiums.

Meanwhile, the Chicoms.........

A £1500 YB will need a rebuild if you want to trust it, it has more tuning potential than the other 2 litre for lumps but if your not gonna use that potential its an expensive and heavy lump of cast iron.




Its worth registering on turbosport, theres a lot of old school fords, but its an all cars forum, and not just turbos, LOTS of expertise on there and the are a friendly bunch that are happy to answer questions.

Yeah sorry that wasnt aimed at you, just the rest of the poor deprived souls who havent signed up yet.

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I think 1500cc and 55BHP will do the Job very well..........!
Pinto is great but not in your new Car Grizz!

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Greet Thorsten

have a word with the likes of Vulcan, HPE, WPE, JEM, etc about a 2.1 pinto build, i know roughly the Harris' used to charge £1800 for a 185 spec engine thats using V6 pistons other odds and sods tuned head gave 180horses for a bit more you got purpose built pistons few other bits and got nearer the 200 mark

if you want more than that they can be taken to 2.4 and around 240bhp......serious money though

eventually i want a 185 spec in my anglia don't care what anyone says about what they weigh i will be quicker in a straight line PERIOD


and i know alot of the big powered pinto's last the time being hammered up the strip not sure what they would be like daily or round a track, obviously need to invest in dry sump or whatever

and super unleaded + octane is not strictly needed, pretty sure Andy Harris has been running on straight unleaded this season



of course theres Zetecs you can buy the bits and bolt together a 180bhp engine but I'm no fan of the modern stuff purely because ive never seen them 'perform' down the strip

also some have mentioned the Vauxhall XE there not all that expensive to get hold of lots of RWD conversions and give a reliable 150bhp


its really a question of how deep are your pockets

lots of people on loads of forums are always going on about big power pintos being the ultimate up the strip, possibly they are (they have had 40 odd years of development after all) but the newer duratecs are far better road engines, they use less juice, are lighter, have mucho better manners and last far longer between rebuilds.

best decide what you wanna do with the engine first i think.

The Pinto OHC is more grunty than the Zetec down low. Runs out of huff topside, but then most cars aren't needing wound out to 8K rpm anyhow. I have an Escort Mk2 mate who took his EFI Zetec back out and stuck his YB back in. Hands down.

The ARCA shop from whom we bought that inventory built massaged and towered Pintos that regularly beat crate YBs at the roundy tracks. The SOHC can be made to haul azz too.

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