A Q On Escorts

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Originally Posted by vctxr6ute

A pinto engine can push 220hp N/a if built and tuned correctly.No a very good daily driver at all but still pushes the ponies.
my turbo EFI 2ltr pinto Im hoping for 300hp fly eventually after some development and money, long term.

FF&R in the 90's released an artilcle about the "magic" 100 hp per Litre mark in the pinto. Many people claimed it was possible, but nothing had been proved. They tried everything and couldn't get more than approx 190hp.

Even with the advance in EFI the pinto parts catalog has remained relatively standard and only small increases have been seen. If you can get 220hp out of a Pinto on an engine dyno, not a chassis dyno, I know alot of people who'll be banging down your door.

This is the article

http://classicford.mine.nu/forum/top...?TOPIC_ID=5144

As for a turbo pinto. 300hp easy. Just add super strong internals and crank up the boost. Skies the limit until it shoots a rod out the block.