Pinto 2300cc engine
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Pinto 2300cc engine
Anyone have any info on this motor?
It was available in:
Ford Pinto
Mercury Bobcat
Ford Mustang II
As far as I know that was it but may have been in other vehicles.
I am thinking of picking one up but don't know much about it aside from the little info I have gotten from simple searches.
It was available in:
Ford Pinto
Mercury Bobcat
Ford Mustang II
As far as I know that was it but may have been in other vehicles.
I am thinking of picking one up but don't know much about it aside from the little info I have gotten from simple searches.
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They were made in Brazil. Only reason why I know this is almost ten years ago there was a Pinto campaigning at an imports-only race. That was the only reason why they let him race. Look up his name, "Turbo Joe Morgan" or something.
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Heres what my Mustang book has too say about it:
"Sometimes referred to as the 'Lima' engine, because it was supplied from Ford's Lima, Ohio plant, the four was the first American-built engine based on metric demensions. Originally designed for some of Ford's larger European cars, it was actually a bored-and-stroked version of the 2.0-liter Pinto unit. A novel feature was its 'monolithic engine timing.' A factory computer set the timing of each engine automatically by means of a distributor adjustment. The resulting degree of precision helped meet increasingly tough emission standards."
Basically, its a SOHC Inline 4, 2.3 liters, 140 CID. As for engine output, it varied (at least in Mustangs) by year, as follows:
1974: 85bhp
1975: 83bhp
1976: 92bhp
1977: 89bhp
1978: 88bhp
This is pretty much all I could find in my book about it. Obviously, these year Mustangs are ones that most people would like to forget about, so they don't spend much time on them in the book.
"Sometimes referred to as the 'Lima' engine, because it was supplied from Ford's Lima, Ohio plant, the four was the first American-built engine based on metric demensions. Originally designed for some of Ford's larger European cars, it was actually a bored-and-stroked version of the 2.0-liter Pinto unit. A novel feature was its 'monolithic engine timing.' A factory computer set the timing of each engine automatically by means of a distributor adjustment. The resulting degree of precision helped meet increasingly tough emission standards."
Basically, its a SOHC Inline 4, 2.3 liters, 140 CID. As for engine output, it varied (at least in Mustangs) by year, as follows:
1974: 85bhp
1975: 83bhp
1976: 92bhp
1977: 89bhp
1978: 88bhp
This is pretty much all I could find in my book about it. Obviously, these year Mustangs are ones that most people would like to forget about, so they don't spend much time on them in the book.
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Originally Posted by str8edgexx
Heres what my Mustang book has too say about it:
"Sometimes referred to as the 'Lima' engine, because it was supplied from Ford's Lima, Ohio plant, the four was the first American-built engine based on metric demensions. Originally designed for some of Ford's larger European cars, it was actually a bored-and-stroked version of the 2.0-liter Pinto unit. A novel feature was its 'monolithic engine timing.' A factory computer set the timing of each engine automatically by means of a distributor adjustment. The resulting degree of precision helped meet increasingly tough emission standards."
Basically, its a SOHC Inline 4, 2.3 liters, 140 CID. As for engine output, it varied (at least in Mustangs) by year, as follows:
1974: 85bhp
1975: 83bhp
1976: 92bhp
1977: 89bhp
1978: 88bhp
This is pretty much all I could find in my book about it. Obviously, these year Mustangs are ones that most people would like to forget about, so they don't spend much time on them in the book.
"Sometimes referred to as the 'Lima' engine, because it was supplied from Ford's Lima, Ohio plant, the four was the first American-built engine based on metric demensions. Originally designed for some of Ford's larger European cars, it was actually a bored-and-stroked version of the 2.0-liter Pinto unit. A novel feature was its 'monolithic engine timing.' A factory computer set the timing of each engine automatically by means of a distributor adjustment. The resulting degree of precision helped meet increasingly tough emission standards."
Basically, its a SOHC Inline 4, 2.3 liters, 140 CID. As for engine output, it varied (at least in Mustangs) by year, as follows:
1974: 85bhp
1975: 83bhp
1976: 92bhp
1977: 89bhp
1978: 88bhp
This is pretty much all I could find in my book about it. Obviously, these year Mustangs are ones that most people would like to forget about, so they don't spend much time on them in the book.
Do you by any chance have a torque rating of those engines?
Thanks for the info btw.
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