I am sure I saw a thread about this a while ago - but now cannot track it down.

I have a Ford Pinto engine which I am going to do some overhauling to before I fit it in my car.

There's no need for anyone to post with arguments about bike engine, Zetec or anythng else - it's definitely going in for now.

I would like to read up on the tuning side before I take it all apart (even if I then don't modify it) but cannot track down copies of the books that seem most relevant (e.g. Vizards book on SOHC tuning).

I have seen mention of PDF versions on old posts - can anyone help me out?

I would have a quick search on scribd under his name.

Just google Des Hammill pdf and choose pinto for all you need to know

I have a pdf copy of David Vizard's book, u2u your email address and I'll send you a copy, will have to be wetransfer though as it's 43Mb

You can go deep into Pinto tuning but in essence your first obstacles to more power is the head, simply changing to an injection head gives you 10 to 15 bhp.
Cams, your choice is vast but depends on compression ratio and revs
Revs are limited by the rods, 6,800 for the standard rods, 7000 to 7200 for the injection rods although forays to 7500 have been fine on my engines
Compression is limited to 10.5 to 1 with cast pistons
You need more compression for wild cams & wild cams work at high revs, so forged pistons on steel rods
Older cam profiles have less lift and long duration overlap
The Pinto likes lift
For most fast road Pinto's big inlet valves are all you need
The ports are huge, real top end Pinto's fill the port floor.

There are lots of little things you can do, 130bhp is easy, 150 takes a bit more work, 170+ is expensive