Fordheads - 2.0 Pinto

[JAHetfield]

Just picked myself up a 1994 Transit. The body is beyond economical repair but there's a real cracker engine in it and I'm thinking of ripping it out and holding onto it for a project next summer. What I'd like to know is if this is the same engine that was in the Sierra and RS2000.

[Trustmeimadoctor]

erm the pinto was in lots of stuff and the block was used in the cossie lumps (well certain versions of the block) its a nasty bit of iron fit to use only as a boat anchor these days

[exgtt]

I **think** the standard petrol engine in old trannys is lower compression than the equivelent car motor. A fiend had an ex police one and it went pretty well as it had the car derived Pinto. No idea if they lowered the compression using the heads or not sorry!

[falkster]

They were really popular in their day because there were loads of them, easy to modify and put a 2ltr pinto in a 1.3 mk2 escort and it's going to feel like a supercars by comparison.
The only out of the transit will more than likely have a different head to anything remotely powerful and obviously won't be running on twin 45s/48s. To realistically extract a decent amount of power from that and make it worthwhile it would need some serious money spending on it. I had an RS2000 with 176bhp which isn't a massive amount these days and the only way I made it quicker (other than the extra bhp) was to put a really short diff in it. Top speed about 110 and terrible to drive anything longer than 5 mins unless you were out to thrash.
My advice would be to stick it on eBay and someone needing some internals might snap it up.

[JAHetfield]

Yes, the 205 Pinto block was used as the base for the YB. From what I've heard, it's a better block than the standard 2.0 as it will stand a bigger overbore.

I'm not overly worried about compression ratios as it will be a full rebuild job anyway. I just need to know if the van version will mate up to a type 9.

[aeropilot]

JAHetfield said:

What I'd like to know is if this is the same engine that was in the Sierra and RS2000.

Pretty much so..... and the Capri, Cortina, and Granada as well

[sticks090460]

Vulcan Engineering are your friend. Or Burton.

[anonymous-user]

exgtt said:

I A fiend had an ex police one and it went pretty well

I wish the Police would be a bit more careful about who they sold their ex fleet stuff on to ......

[aeropilot]

sticks090460 said:

Vulcan Engineering are your friend. Or Burton.

Neither firms used to be....... but I am going back a bit.

There are much better firms to use, but as ever, it depends on what you want and how much you want to pay for it.

[wolf1]

JAHetfield said:

I just need to know if the van version will mate up to a type 9.

Yes it will. I took the engine out of my RS2000 which ended up with a cosworth lump in it. The engine from the RS went straigh into my Mk2 transit.

[J4CKO]

These are heavy engines, watch your penis !


Seriously, I lifted one onto my workmate and managed to get mine in the way, funny how they are so heave when resting on your foreskin

[NHK244V]

wolf1 said:

Yes it will. I took the engine out of my RS2000 which ended up with a cosworth lump in it. The engine from the RS went straigh into my Mk2 transit.

Yep it's just a low comp version of the car engine (piston change will sort that)
Unless it's a 202 block (92 on transit) which is differant to the car block but still the same bellhousing pattern.
check see what's cast into the side of the block

Edited by NHK244V on Tuesday 13th December 21:39

[stevenr]

NHK244V said:

Yep it's just a low comp version of the car engine (piston change will sort that)
Unless it's a 202 block (92 on transit) which is differant to the car block but still the same bellhousing pattern.
check see what's cast into the side of the block

Edited by NHK244V on Tuesday 13th December 21:39

Often wondered what ford your username came from.Found this pic on another forum just now

http://img173.imageshack.us/img173/5206/cortina1ix...

[Wacky Racer]

aeropilot said:

Pretty much so..... and the Capri, Cortina, and Granada as well

I'm a big fan of the Pinto engine.

Since 1976 over the years I have had many cars powered by them, Capris (4), Granadas (2) Sierra (1) Westfield (1), covered well over 200,000 miles never had a single issue, breakdown etc, just made sure oil and filters were changed every 6,000 miles, as the spraybar can become blocked, causing premature camshaft wear....(an easy fix). A great engine, if not latest tech.