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I'm presuming your stickerless car is a zetec by the exhaust coming from the left of the car? Do they still run pintos in them these days or are they just generally old hat?

 

They still use pintos, they are slightly faster on tarmac, but supposed to be limited revs this year to equal it out.

We find little difference on shale except pinto costs around £4,500, and blows up now and then.

Our Zetecs costs £650 and tend to last longer.

You do need a few conversion parts to run zetec, around £1000 in total, but once you have the kit, its cheap.

We used to use 2 pintos per season, often needed a rebuild as well.

This is our third season zetec. 

Just fitted engine no 4, No1 blew up after about 28 meetings 2 and 3 are stlll usable. 

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This is true, but things progress. 

I'll try to dig the Morris 1000 photo from the loft that I promised Squire Dawson a while ago.

Could be a young lady sat on the bonnet if I get the right one. She's 71 now!

Yes she did drive it

 

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Might have to move to another thread, It's hardly news 24.

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They still use pintos, they are slightly faster on tarmac, but supposed to be limited revs this year to equal it out.

We find little difference on shale except pinto costs around £4,500, and blows up now and then.

Our Zetecs costs £650 and tend to last longer.

You do need a few conversion parts to run zetec, around £1000 in total, but once you have the kit, its cheap.

We used to use 2 pintos per season, often needed a rebuild as well.

This is our third season zetec.

Just fitted engine no 4, No1 blew up after about 28 meetings 2 and 3 are stlll usable.

Cool I havnt really looked into it for a good while, supplied a few pintos to local lads when they were doing it, I thank you f2 and the lightning rod guys for upping the value of pintos to be fair

 

You'll have to start a thread for your f2 escapades, im sure others as well as me would be interested

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Brown car passed it's MOT today, with a couple of small advisories. In thanks I gave it a wash and spent 2.25 hours hoovering up Bassett hair.. Toyota seem to have made the the seats out of dog hair magnetic nylon. The Ebay dog guard I bought for it resisted a Basset shoulder barge for 17 minutes. It's been beefed up but it's now a war of wills. After spending 2.05 hours today hoovering, I went in for a piss,and upon returning, who was in the passengers seat.. ?

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Yep it does cost money indeed, just to do a basic freshen up of the bottom end with oversize pistons, rings, a bore, block decking, bearings etc costs a few quid in itself in just parts and machining, thats without adding any work to the head a new cam etc and a carb to the equation then there's someones labour to put it together if you can't do it yourself, then there's the cost of buying the unit to freshen up if you don't already have a serviceable one

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A built pinto is infinitely cooler than a zetec. It gets a bit yawn at car shows when you see zetec, zetec, red top. I much prefer to see something original even if it's been heavily modified.

Is 200bhp about the limit for an NA pinto?

Measured at the crank whilst pulling North of 8000 rpm and it's not going to last long. However putting boost through they can easily and cheaply exceed that till the ring lands collapse.

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A built pinto is infinitely cooler than a zetec. It gets a bit yawn at car shows when you see zetec, zetec, red top. I much prefer to see something original even if it's been heavily modified.

Is 200bhp about the limit for an NA pinto?

Im sure harris got around 240-250 bhp iirc it was 2.2 on throttle bodies, may have got more in their time but you have to have very deep pockets for one of those

 

Here's a nice mk1 escort with a boat anchor doing 10.73 quarter mile

 

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=6qO3lhHEZu4

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This afternoon I have mostly been going to Southampton to buy a boring modern.  I like to think it does have some shite credentials though.  Behold the (blurry) magnificence of the 2008 Perodua Myvi.

 

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First impressions are that it's really not a long-distance car.  It has enough poke to keep up on the motorway, but there's a lot of road noise and the seats aren't the most supportive, which means my back now hurts a bit.  It also nommed £30 worth of petrol on the 215-mile run home, which works out to just under 40mpg - so a bit shit really considering I wasn't exactly gunning it (the EML is on though which might have something to do with it).  Round town though it's brilliant - it gets off the line like a stabbed rat and turns on a sixpence, and the boxy shape makes it easy to park. 

 

I think it must be quite a posh one as it has electric windows all round and aircon.  It still has the same tacky grey plastic ignition key as the Kenari though - albeit with the addition of an equally tacky remote fob.  The engine is a 1.3 VVTi from a Yaris and seems happy to rev to 7K.  It has the usual vague gearshift and overlight steering you get from Peroduas but it seems to handle well enough, although crosswind stability isn't its strongest suit.  Also it needs wiper blades.  Why does every single bloody car I buy need wiper blades?  How can people drive around in the rain not being able to see where they're going?  I just don't get it.

 

I'm not sure what I'm going to do with the car yet - probably tidy it up, put a fresh MOT on it and sell it on.  I only bought it because it was cheap (absurdly so in fact), and hopefully an '08 plate car with 58K on the clock and a full test will be desirable enough that I might even make a drink on it.  We shall see.

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Put the steels on the back of the Volvo yesterday and I’m taking two wheels to the powdercoaters in a bit.

One of the rear brakes had a load of surface rust on it - turns out it doesn’t do anything...

 

I’m also starting to think the death knock from the rear damper is a worn top bush as Old Man putting his hand on something silenced it.

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The Aero hit the 175,000 mile mark this evening, 20,000 of those miles being mine. So far, so good ^^

 

I also took delivery of the c. late 1970s Allied Polymer "Hot Wash" thingy I acquired on eBay after Junkman linked its auction on the 'giffer trinkets' thread:

 

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As new, with a high quality feel, it will go well in The Volvo. Wait a minute...

 

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Arse! Ironically, immediately before I saw the above warning, I was joking with my work colleagues that it probably wouldn't fit Volvos :roll:

 

I wonder why it's not suitable for Volvos? As its manufacturer no longer exists, I can't get the reason why from them, so does anyone here know? I think I'll bung it on anyway, as The Volvo is not your average Volvo by any means and I have a brand new lower heater hose for it (which I found in the back of The Wentworth when I first bought it), just in case I wreck the car's existing one trying to fit it 8)

It had been on a 12 mile drive, but after that the screenwash on my Volvo came out warm.

Maybe they already have it, because Sweden.

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A built pinto is infinitely cooler than a zetec.

Cooler? They sound like shite. Compared to other mass-produced humdrum mid-capacity engines of the time they were lacking in power, sound awful and were a bit thirsty.

 

No surprise everyone goes for a later engine.

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It had been on a 12 mile drive, but after that the screenwash on my Volvo came out warm.

Maybe they already have it, because Sweden.

 

Perhaps the routing of the washer pipes allows the engine to warm them up quickly? The Volvo's washer jets certainly don't freeze up as readily as The Aero's in cold weather; the latter's are guaranteed to freeze at least partially in sub-zero conditions, even if the washer bottle contains neat screenwash.

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Cooler? They sound like shite. Compared to other mass-produced humdrum mid-capacity engines of the time they were lacking in power, sound awful and were a bit thirsty.

 

No surprise everyone goes for a later engine.

Incorrect

 

Why not fit a 1969 lancia fulvia with a 1.0 ecoboost from a new fiesta as it’s more reliable and better on fuel ?

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Got home from work today at about 11:30am, sounds like a grin till I mention I went to work at 1pm yesterday.

 

I love* it when we lose five storage volumes as all teh paths went down on our entire corporate VM cluster just before home time...

 

Just got out of bed again & trying to remember what day it is.

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