I just bought a 73 pinto with a 2.3 and was wondering how I can maximize mpg. I was thinking of installing a tempo tbi. It currently has a progressive Holley carb.
The Ford Motor Company will spend $100‐million expanding its Lima, Ohio, engine plant to turn out four‐cylinder engines by late 1973.
These engines, for the Pinto small car, now are made in West Germany and Britain, but the engine imports will stop with the Lima expansion. Pinto production had been hobbled this spring because strikes at British plants delayed engine shipments.
64 200 ranchero":33obonek said:That is way complicated. I wonder if it would be possible to just set it up the same way that some of the guys on here have done with their draw through setups?
What if I were to plug all of the vacuum lines and run a Weber 32/36 or a 38/38 with a ds2 and a MSD box?
xctasy;1820712 said:Easier than falling off a log, and you can do that in stages with the magic of the simplicity of these engines.
Take one bone stock U shift 5 speed non turbo Capri, and add parts in stages until automtive Nirvana occurs....
http://www.mustangandfords.com/feat...-capri-and-this-1980-mercury-is-here-to-stay/
80Merccapri's 5 speed 1980 Capri to Turbo conversion...with N20!
http://vb.foureyedpride.com/showthread.php?172175-Turbo-kit-options
Check out. http://vb.foureyedpride.com/showthread.php?173837-Air-Fuel-Ratio
Standard problems have standard responses...
http://vb.foureyedpride.com/showthread.php?143950-Fixing-the-W-option-Turbo-Carb-Mustang-and-Capri
Factory Pinto turbo 2 liter conversions with stock parts done for many years on the little forgein 1594 debored and destroked OHC, also some 1993 cc's were regularly blow through turboed.
The 5200 Holley Weber (or its nearly mirror image 32/36 Weber brother) is a great blow through carb.
The Isuzu 1600 and 2000, 2200 and 2500 engines were turboed with a factory Ford 2-bbl Holley Weber or the similar 32/36 DGV.
Aussie GM Holden guys exclusively hunt out the F-O-R-D Pinto engines fuel delivery parts to make quick, reliable turbo Holden Gemini sleepers
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F_QmGq7zSfs
The work done by Ak Miller and David Vizard on the shorter 1970-1973 Pinto 2000 EOA is able to be perfectly replicated these days.
Check out. http://vb.foureyedpride.com/showthread.php?173837-Air-Fuel-Ratio
64 200 ranchero":w5z3qexw said:I just found a complete 79 turbo 2.3 draw through engine, turbo, and transmission for $500. Supposedly it was running before being pulled. Is the draw through setup Worth it? I heard that they are not very reliable. I'd just swap the intake since the draw through engine is the same as the na.