I have a 2.0 litre in my mk3 Capri. Boy, care for this engine and it's performance will not let you down. Plugs, points, condenser, oil, air filter, cam belt, carburator, etc, and it will throw you back in the seats on acceleration.
i owned a 1971 ford pinto. low production number. made in milpitas ca. it was one of the best cars i ever owned. very easy to work on. everything was right where you could get to it. they have a bad reputation. like with any machine if you do not maintain it. they will fail. most just ran them into the ground. and anything will blow up if you hit it that hard. i drove my pinto on a local road one day.in the hills. and a porsche blew by me. this is no lie. i caught up to it and stayed right on his tail till we came out the other end. the guy in the porsche pulled over came up to me and asked what do you have under the hood. so i got out and showed him that the hole car was factory stock. he closed the hood walked away and drove off. never saying one word. i swear this is a true story.
I believe you, but having owned and raced over a dozen Pintos including the 2.0 the dude in the Porsche didn't know how to drive. And if you didn't either then he was really slow.
On the 1.6L OHC You had to Replace the cam belt every 40k miles Without fail otherwise you will pay the price! Was pretty easy though around 45 mins when you've done it a few times! 'VV' carb with auto choke was unreliable, so a manual conversion kit was available. Or a Weber upgrade!
That voice was only ever acceptable being used by Steven Hawking. And I bet he wouldn't have used the wrong photos of a 1300 crossflow and a 4 barrel carb instead of a VV.
@@chriswoods3188 There refer to over sea unlike in US it was 1.6l Kent and 2.0l Pinto from 71 thru 73 if had Ford Pinto then in 74 you got 2.3l Lima engine in US
The American ' Pinto ' engine is different from the European Pinto. There are multiple small differences, if memory serves me right. They look the same but are quite different.
Back in the 80's my modified 2.0 in a Mercury Capri....would beat the 2600cc v6 and the 2800cc on a regular basis...Supprised many V8 cars in a light to light competition...my favorite 4cyl back in the day...👍
ford lowered the compression in 72 on the 2000 by relocating the rist pin on the pistons, put 71 pistons in to up comp. Ford also made a cam that jared the whole car but never put it in production, only thing I remember was it was d1 ** (Pinto) Cam number and suffex BB I had to put a chain on left motor mount to keep it from breaking mounts. it was suppose to be a compation for the cosworth vega
@@600lwp I milled the head .060 to bring the compression up on my 2000cc motor...and installed a performance camshaft...Spent 2 days doing some bowl porting and gasket matching....i finished it up with a 3 angle valve job , a 4 into 1 header and a Offy 4bbl manifold with a 390 Holly Carburetor on top.... A friend in College had a cosworth Vega at that time...it couldn't stay with my Capri... I have such fond memories of that engine....im pretty confident she was pumping out 125 to 130hp back then....Doesn't sound like much today...but compared to a 350 Chevrolet was rated at 145hp in 1973....it wasnt too bad...
@@frankieford7668- I had a 71 2.0 with a header and twin webers I bought the car from a asian man that had on of the first speed shops for 4cyl cars I don’t know what cam he had in it but it wasn’t stock that car would chirp the tires in 3rd gear and my buddies who had a 6.6 trans am and a 68 390 mustang couldn’t catch me in stop light to stop light racing, it was also lowered 1&1/2 inches and handled great, I loved that car as back then gas was over a $1 a gallon and minimum wage was only $2.35 and I got 35+ mpg on the freeway
Significant points about this engine. It is not an interference engine in standard form, so if the belt breaks the valves won't hit the pistons. Iron block + iron head = Never blows gaskets. I fact getting the head off the block can be difficult. Doesn't overheat easily. I drove a MK 3 Cortina home 12 miles with a broken fan belt at 40 mph (spring time, so about 18 Celsius), and the temp guage never moved off normal. I suspect the fan was windmilling and driving the water pump. The spark plugs are larger than normal and a taper seat fit in the head. They can be VERY tight to remove. Belts are easy to change. When this engine was introduced in the UK premature camshaft failure was very common, especially in cars doing lots of short trips. At that time the only widely available multi-grade oils (in the UK) were 20w50 (Duckhams and Castrol GTX) because of the Leyland gearbox in sump cars that needed this grade. It is too thick for the Pinto, so the oil takes a long time to get to the spray bar at the top of the engine which lubes the cam. Starting from cold, the valves would rattle for several seconds until the oil covered the cams. This caused premature wear and cam failure. Switching to a 10w30 grade eliminated this problem. This (10w30) grade of oil was the most common in the USA at that time (still is, I suspect) and probably in Europe too. I imagine that Ford hadn't done any long term testing using 20w50 oils so didn't expect this problem. Nowadays I would use a 5w30 or 0w30 synthetic and would not expect any trouble with camshaft wear. Comments anyone?
my 1.8 pinto engine ford Seira was positively an interference engine in standard form when the cambelt snapped //i buy the car on a Monday and ordered the belt on Tuesday for a Friday delivery to be fitted on Saturday but it snapped on Thursday (no it was not a 1.8 CVH)
i have an 87 thunderbird turbo coupe with a 2.3l lima SOHC turbocharged which calls for 10w30. My service records from previous owner shows that he used 20w50 multiple times in the bird throughout the late 80s and early 90s and, while changing the head gasket (its a project car there), i did notice a relatively worn camshaft which i've replaced. thought it may be of some interest to you!
Touche baylessnow, I was just about to say the same thing. Some interesting content but why have a robot commentary that hasn't had the recognition of punctuation or intonation programmed in?
Kinda sorta interesting. I had one of the 2000cc versions of the engine. Was actually a fairly easy engine to work on, and only required 3 special tools. A special sized torx driver for the head bolts and oil pump bolts, and a really weird shaped wrench that popped onto a ratchet wrench although I can't remember what it was for. The 2000 had an unfortunate flaw of having both imperial and metric bolts. Now I know this was a product of it being a British designed engine in and American car. I agree PLEASE stop using these computer voices, it really ruins the video.
This is gonna confuse those who are surfing the net. Are you pertaining to the Ford Pinto or the engine alone(?) Why was the Kent pictured if you're discussing only the T88(?) The Kent was used in the Ford Pinto in 1969 but the 1980 Pinto in the picture used only the 4 cam tower 2.3 Lima OHC, also a Pinto engine. The T88 Pinto was employed after the Kent. The European T88 had the 3 cam tower. but Ford US wanted a 4 cylinder of their own thus the Lima. The voice is better in The Greatest Lie Ever Told, Holocaust 2015 HD.
What is the difference with the Lima cam towers? The European engine has one infuriating design feature. The bearing diameter of the front cam tower is smaller than the centre and rear ones, so the cam had to be removed to the rear. This entailed removing the head or the engine to get the cam out. There was a shortcut that some people used. They cut a hole in the bulkhead (firewall) and slid the cam out through the aperture for the ashtray (remember those?) in the dashboard.
That wouldn't be a Pinto, but a Lima engine, which design is based off the European Pinto engine's concept (belt driven sohc straight-4) The Lima is a whole different development branch of its own, starting form 2 litres up. Parts are not interchangeable however... Pintos only came up to 2 litres from the factory. Cosworth developed a 16v turbo off the pinto, and this was put in the 3-door "whale-tail" Sierra Cosworth which many people know. Figures of up to 900 hp were made from those engines by some of the really mad tuners! However, lots of tuners have increased the capacity up to 2.5 litres on the current generations of Millington 16v engines for example, which use a (probably strengthened/ Cosworth 4x4) 2 litre Pinto, block bored and stroked , and have up to 350 hp naturally aspirated...
Prefer the Pontiac OHV 4 cylinder Iron Duke 2.5L engine with no timing belts or timing chains to break, just timing gears running in oil... prolly used in a 100 different vehicles/machines...
No was not any better in fact all one had to do was swap the cam for 71 cam profile and tab bit higher compression and some carb jet change to get +15hp +20Torq ford USA should keep it in I swap my 74 2.3l for 2.0l in my Ford Pinto Sedan
This would be much more enjoyable with a human voice instead of that lame-ass brit-like robo-voice. I own one of these engines which is the only reason I listened to this video for more than my customary 15-20 seconds.
As Silas Dogwood said below, word for word just the wikipedia entry with ridiculous robot voice. Another junk youtube entry. Getting very sick of them. Not informative at all. I can just as easily read the Wikipedia page for myself.
Terible video pour and incorect imformation. Photo's of a 1.3l push rod engine from the Kent family and a 4 barrel holley obviously a lack of research.
This is just a robot reading the wikipedia entry.
I have a 2.0 litre in my mk3 Capri. Boy, care for this engine and it's performance will not let you down. Plugs, points, condenser, oil, air filter, cam belt, carburator, etc, and it will throw you back in the seats on acceleration.
My father helped launch this engine Richard Tabin we lived in England and he went to Germany a lot for the ford Capris
i owned a 1971 ford pinto. low production number. made in milpitas ca. it was one of the best cars i ever owned. very easy to work on. everything was right where you could get to it. they have a bad reputation. like with any machine if you do not maintain it. they will fail. most just ran them into the ground. and anything will blow up if you hit it that hard. i drove my pinto on a local road one day.in the hills. and a porsche blew by me. this is no lie. i caught up to it and stayed right on his tail till we came out the other end. the guy in the porsche pulled over came up to me and asked what do you have under the hood. so i got out and showed him that the hole car was factory stock. he closed the hood walked away and drove off. never saying one word. i swear this is a true story.
I believe you, but having owned and raced over a dozen Pintos including the 2.0 the dude in the Porsche didn't know how to drive. And if you didn't either then he was really slow.
On the 1.6L OHC You had to Replace the cam belt every 40k miles
Without fail otherwise you will pay the price!
Was pretty easy though around 45 mins when you've done it a few times!
'VV' carb with auto choke was unreliable, so a manual conversion kit was available.
Or a Weber upgrade!
That voice was only ever acceptable being used by Steven Hawking. And I bet he wouldn't have used the wrong photos of a 1300 crossflow and a 4 barrel carb instead of a VV.
The Steven Hawking voice was also on the Commadore Amiga.
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I love Ford pinto engine.
Pints 2.0 greatest 4 cylinder since the model B
I've got the 2.3 L 4 cylinder 5 speed in my single cab 2003 Ford Ranger and that engine is both efficient and powerful.
Different motor
That cannot be a pinto engine it’s too new
I wish people wouldn't call it pinto, it doesn't make sense. It was called the OHC in the factory where we made it!
Also fitted in Australian Ford Cortina and Ford Escort as the 2 litre version.
Incredible Engine
1`51" looks a bit like a push-rod/OHV to me?
looked like a kent engine.
@@gazza116 Correct.
Looks like a Kent I4 engine.
1:46 "The smallest member of the family was the 1.3" So why did you show the Kent OHV engine?
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baylessnow I think because in the uk the 1.3 was in OHV form only
The 1.3 was never put in the pinto. The 1.6 was the frist instilled into the pinto.
@@stevehillier7018 The 1.3 Pinto was used in lower spec Sierras in the mid 80's.
@@chriswoods3188 There refer to over sea unlike in US it was 1.6l Kent and 2.0l Pinto from 71 thru 73 if had Ford Pinto then in 74 you got 2.3l Lima engine in US
the millington block is the give away for the capacity..look up roy millington or just millington race engines
Random series of Ford related photos & some slightly questionable 'facts' from the Red Dwarf toaster.....
How about more info on the Pinto and the turbo versions...
Pinto engine never got that only 2.3l Lima engine did and had lots of power ever stock 2.0l pinto engine with fitted with turbo make a nice upgrade
What about the 2.3 liter installed in my Mustang II ?
The American ' Pinto ' engine is different from the European Pinto. There are multiple small differences, if memory serves me right. They look the same but are quite different.
i had the 2.3 no fails....
litre not liter, it's French.
@@baylessnow - Pardonnez-moi...
Back in the 80's my modified 2.0 in a Mercury Capri....would beat the 2600cc v6 and the 2800cc on a regular basis...Supprised many V8 cars in a light to light competition...my favorite 4cyl back in the day...👍
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ford lowered the compression in 72 on the 2000 by relocating the rist pin on the pistons, put 71 pistons in to up comp. Ford also made a cam that jared the whole car but never put it in production, only thing I remember was it was d1 ** (Pinto) Cam number and suffex BB I had to put a chain on left motor mount to keep it from breaking mounts. it was suppose to be a compation for the cosworth vega
@@600lwp
I milled the head .060 to bring the compression up on my 2000cc motor...and installed a performance camshaft...Spent 2 days doing some bowl porting and gasket matching....i finished it up with a 3 angle valve job , a 4 into 1 header and a Offy 4bbl manifold with a 390 Holly Carburetor on top.... A friend in College had a cosworth Vega at that time...it couldn't stay with my Capri...
I have such fond memories of that engine....im pretty confident she was pumping out 125 to 130hp back then....Doesn't sound like much today...but compared to a 350 Chevrolet was rated at 145hp in 1973....it wasnt too bad...
@@frankieford7668- I had a 71 2.0 with a header and twin webers I bought the car from a asian man that had on of the first speed shops for 4cyl cars I don’t know what cam he had in it but it wasn’t stock that car would chirp the tires in 3rd gear and my buddies who had a 6.6 trans am and a 68 390 mustang couldn’t catch me in stop light to stop light racing, it was also lowered 1&1/2 inches and handled great, I loved that car as back then gas was over a $1 a gallon and minimum wage was only $2.35 and I got 35+ mpg on the freeway
Significant points about this engine. It is not an interference engine in standard form, so if the belt breaks the valves won't hit the pistons. Iron block + iron head = Never blows gaskets. I fact getting the head off the block can be difficult. Doesn't overheat easily. I drove a MK 3 Cortina home 12 miles with a broken fan belt at 40 mph (spring time, so about 18 Celsius), and the temp guage never moved off normal. I suspect the fan was windmilling and driving the water pump. The spark plugs are larger than normal and a taper seat fit in the head. They can be VERY tight to remove. Belts are easy to change.
When this engine was introduced in the UK premature camshaft failure was very common, especially in cars doing lots of short trips. At that time the only widely available multi-grade oils (in the UK) were 20w50 (Duckhams and Castrol GTX) because of the Leyland gearbox in sump cars that needed this grade. It is too thick for the Pinto, so the oil takes a long time to get to the spray bar at the top of the engine which lubes the cam. Starting from cold, the valves would rattle for several seconds until the oil covered the cams. This caused premature wear and cam failure. Switching to a 10w30 grade eliminated this problem. This (10w30) grade of oil was the most common in the USA at that time (still is, I suspect) and probably in Europe too. I imagine that Ford hadn't done any long term testing using 20w50 oils so didn't expect this problem. Nowadays I would use a 5w30 or 0w30 synthetic and would not expect any trouble with camshaft wear. Comments anyone?
my 1.8 pinto engine ford Seira was positively an interference engine in standard form when the cambelt snapped //i buy the car on a Monday and ordered the belt on Tuesday for a Friday delivery to be fitted on Saturday but it snapped on Thursday (no it was not a 1.8 CVH)
i have an 87 thunderbird turbo coupe with a 2.3l lima SOHC turbocharged which calls for 10w30. My service records from previous owner shows that he used 20w50 multiple times in the bird throughout the late 80s and early 90s and, while changing the head gasket (its a project car there), i did notice a relatively worn camshaft which i've replaced.
thought it may be of some interest to you!
The voice makes this impossible to finish
Can anybody tell me about a 1.6 # 70HM6015AA. It looks just like the 2.0 pinto eng
Please, please, please 🙏 do something about the computer generated voiceover It's insufferable
Touche baylessnow, I was just about to say the same thing. Some interesting content but why have a robot commentary that hasn't had the recognition of punctuation or intonation programmed in?
Wasnt there a 2.8 engine?
Kinda sorta interesting. I had one of the 2000cc versions of the engine. Was actually a fairly easy engine to work on, and only required 3 special tools. A special sized torx driver for the head bolts and oil pump bolts, and a really weird shaped wrench that popped onto a ratchet wrench although I can't remember what it was for. The 2000 had an unfortunate flaw of having both imperial and metric bolts. Now I know this was a product of it being a British designed engine in and American car.
I agree PLEASE stop using these computer voices, it really ruins the video.
The mix of SAE and metric was a common issue in this era. I've worked on MG and Triumph engines from era that had the same issue.
The head bolt was a "double hex", not a Torx driver. The weird wrench was a "crow's foot" used to adjust the valve clearances.
It’s a non cross flow engine?
Why does this look so similar to the volvo red block?
The timing belt kept coming off on mine. PITA to put back on.
If belt are coming off you need replace all drive gears and belt and belt tensioner and make the auxiliary shaft has no play that
@@SHSPVR Thanks for the help, but you're 40 years to late. Had to sell the car when I moved to california because I couldn't afford the smog upgrades.
@@Bobshouse I know mine had too as was from Madera, Calif but left about 33 year LoL
This is gonna confuse those who are surfing the net. Are you pertaining to the Ford Pinto or the engine alone(?) Why was the Kent pictured if you're discussing only the T88(?) The Kent was used in the Ford Pinto in 1969 but the 1980 Pinto in the picture used only the 4 cam tower 2.3 Lima OHC, also a Pinto engine. The T88 Pinto was employed after the Kent. The European T88 had the 3 cam tower. but Ford US wanted a 4 cylinder of their own thus the Lima. The voice is better in The Greatest Lie Ever Told, Holocaust 2015 HD.
What is the difference with the Lima cam towers? The European engine has one infuriating design feature. The bearing diameter of the front cam tower is smaller than the centre and rear ones, so the cam had to be removed to the rear. This entailed removing the head or the engine to get the cam out. There was a shortcut that some people used. They cut a hole in the bulkhead (firewall) and slid the cam out through the aperture for the ashtray (remember those?) in the dashboard.
2.3?
I have a 1980 ford pinto with a 2300
That wouldn't be a Pinto, but a Lima engine, which design is based off the European Pinto engine's concept (belt driven sohc straight-4) The Lima is a whole different development branch of its own, starting form 2 litres up. Parts are not interchangeable however... Pintos only came up to 2 litres from the factory. Cosworth developed a 16v turbo off the pinto, and this was put in the 3-door "whale-tail" Sierra Cosworth which many people know. Figures of up to 900 hp were made from those engines by some of the really mad tuners! However, lots of tuners have increased the capacity up to 2.5 litres on the current generations of Millington 16v engines for example, which use a (probably strengthened/ Cosworth 4x4) 2 litre Pinto, block bored and stroked , and have up to 350 hp naturally aspirated...
Cosworth??
im just here to see if they say anything about the mustang 2 being based off a pinto(its not).
This basically the Cologne engine. We in South Africa in the Cortina and Sierra models.
The Cologne was the German version of the Essex V6. Dissy in a different place and 4 exhaust ports instead of 6
Prefer the Pontiac OHV 4 cylinder Iron Duke 2.5L engine with no timing belts or timing chains to break, just timing gears running in oil... prolly used in a 100 different vehicles/machines...
I'm stuffed if I can listen to a computer
It's your mother language & yet you're illiterate... He's got the voice at least, while your cognitive abilities are 🐒 like 😂😂
@@dejanfreighter2926 ?????????????
@@dejanfreighter2926 Oh WOW, thats a big word, what will I do now that I know I'm illterate. Praise to the educated one (NOT).
Ai must have forgot it can be bored out to 2.65.
bloody robo voice ,he even missed the kent engine somebody put in the pics.
2300 is a great engine
No was not any better in fact all one had to do was swap the cam for 71 cam profile and tab bit higher compression and some carb jet change to get +15hp +20Torq ford USA should keep it in I swap my 74 2.3l for 2.0l in my Ford Pinto Sedan
1:20 a little known fact...the Star of David on the air filter box was a designers backlash against Henry Ford's anti Semitic beliefs
This would be much more enjoyable with a human voice instead of that lame-ass brit-like robo-voice. I own one of these engines which is the only reason I listened to this video for more than my customary 15-20 seconds.
please can the robo voice
As Silas Dogwood said below, word for word just the wikipedia entry with ridiculous robot voice. Another junk youtube entry. Getting very sick of them. Not informative at all. I can just as easily read the Wikipedia page for myself.
I hate robot voices.....
Full of errors.
Terible video pour and incorect imformation.
Photo's of a 1.3l push rod engine from the Kent family and a 4 barrel holley obviously a lack of research.
stupid voice over spoils it...massively. .
My mom had a Pinto wouldn't climb a hill fast to save it's life
That’s it show us a Kent as the 1.3