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Cheers mate, I'm very happy with it. So much so that I have washed and wait for it...



Yes, broke out Grandads old bottle of T-Cut ;D true love indeed.

It is a lot lighter than the Golf MK3 (funny that) and that 1six pinto feels sweet. Only gone for 5th a couple of times and loving the RWD

Here's a full pic, post wash but pre polish



200 odd miles done since picking it up and enjoyed ever one. Got chatting to a bloke who lives local and has one in the same colour plus spares also a few of the 'I used to have one of them' brigade, ah the joys of retro motoring.

I was really surprised by how modern they feel. Mine felt really big when I first got it, but now when I get in it it feels tiny compared to my golf.

cheap upgrade is to bung in a 2 litre pinto, on the 1600 gearing it will be suprisingly quick considering they only have an extra 20bhp and it will drop right in.

transits used to have a low compression version of the engine in with a crappy carb on, so they weren't any faster than the 1600 in the cortina, would run on 2 star fuel though, dunno about the later vans.

205 block is the strong one but unles your gonna be tuning it its not really going to make much difference, Efi pinto has a better cam and unleaded head as standard.

we used to make sure the weber was working ok and stick a tubular exhaust manifold and freeflow exhaust on em, the inlet side of a pinto is actually pretty good, a freeflow exhaust wakes them up nicely, i never got into spending money to tune them as it was so cheap and easy to drop a 150bhp V6 in there.

These days an injected twincam from a Sierra (125bhp) is probably the cheapest way to wake it up and still have an economical car, you'd have to make engine mounts, a gearbox mount and a propshaft and fit an electric fuel pump (we used to nick the set up off a granny or capri) wiring is pretty simple.

having said that, if your gonna change engines and fit the 5 speed MT75 its not THAT much extra work to drop the 24v in if you can find a good one cheap, mine was averaging 30mpg but i had made some alterations to it and been sensible about gettig everything working right.

Here's my EFi pinto Mk5 (next to me mums old grany)




if you fancy the EFi pinto in a cortina have a look here for a simple how too ;D

cortinacentral.bravehost.com/Efi1.html

I agree there is stuff around for bolting on, but its always cheaper to just fit a bigger engine, especially in a car with a big engine bay and a lot of easy swops, plus you end up with a much nicer driving vehicle.

Save up for a big engine is my advice and don't spend your money trying to make an 80bhp engine into a road burner.

more, please.

I found these:







from here: www.garaget.org/?car=102495

And this 2 door for luck


With hot pinto power