Hot Rods I hope my Pinto's HAMB worthy.

WTF! best one of those motors I've ever seen.

 

Yep his turbo's were pretty impressive (remember that the OP was bout the 2.0 not the 2.3 which is a different motor)
We ran an almost 3 liter version of the 2.3 in one of our race trucks with the Esslinger head and it made right at 300 HP on carburetors with a really strong torque curve.

 

Pangra Pinto's are bad arse (although O/T for the HAMB)... but the engines are pretty mean.

 

my son has a 2300 that he reworked the head and used a VW fuel injection system with the box and then used a T-3 turbo off a T Bird the with intercooler the thing is unreal its in a ranger

 

Pinto front suspension is still quite popular under street rods. Although they call it "Mustang II" it was under Pintos several years before there even was a Mustang II. Pintos were a good little car very reilable and tough. "Everyone knows" they blow up, even though they were around for years by the thousand maybe millions without hearing anything about that issue. If a pinto was at a stop and got rearended bay a car traveling 35(?) MPH or better the inpact COULD drive the fuel tank into the rearend and split it open,viola big fire. That scenerio happened at most a hundred times in the hundreds of thousands thqt were on the raod at the time. They were recalled, dealers installed a shield to knock the tank UNDER the rearend on hard impacts,the problem was solved. To this day most anyone with a drivers liscence "knows" that Pintos are a piece of junk that blows up! And oh yeah those 2000's and later the 2300 were/are good little mills!
nice looking motor!

 

I ran a T-5 from a turbo Thunderbird behind my race truck, but that was a 2300 based motor. Ak Miller used to put Toyota Celica 5 speeds behind turbo 2.0's back in the 70's

They were built at Huntington Ford newer where i grew up, used to go droll over them. Would buy one today if it presented itself right.

 

i was turning my 2000 about 7000 and on the shift to 3rd the friction disc flew apart and took out EVERYTHING between the back of the block & the front of the trans. sounded like a bomb went off.

 

I don't think there were even a dozen this happened to but the fact Ford supposedly knew the potential before they went on sale and did not correct it was big news. The recall also included a longer filler tube the original tube only went into the fuel tank about 1 1/2 inches through a rubber seal it was not attached to the tank but was attached to the fender this would allow the filler to pull out of the tank in some rear impact accidents.My 72 Pinto was involved in the recall when I had it. I have already told my daughter in law that the 2.3 in her mustang is "mine" when they finish the V8 swap it will find a home in my 27T funny since my pinto eventually got a 351 Clevland in it!I'm still trying to locate a copy of a car magazine from around 74 that had a pinto built by I think Roush that on the first pass shattered the pinto trans so they adapted a top loader 4 speed then on the second pass it scattered the pinto rear so they installed a 9 inch from a 57 Ford wagon on the 3rd pass it pulled the front wheels about a foot and a half off the ground! I don't remember the time it ran but do remember that they had bored the block .090 over and milled the head the same. The car was on the front cover pulling the Wheelie I just can't remember what mag it was in.http://www.wfu.edu/~palmitar/Law&Valuation/Papers/1999/Leggett-pinto.html

 

Well done, Gary