Hi all
Need help. Can anyone help me to get the OFFICIAL emission figures for a 2 litre Pinto?. Cheers

try HERE

Davie

Thanks for your help Dave. Unfortunately I"m none the wiser from looking at the link that you sent me to. I need to know the mauufacturers figures. I have tried trawling through various Ford sites , but the informotion seems to be a big secret!!!
Cheers

It may depend on which Pinto engine you have the same with the ignition timing. I used to find the distributor number was handy for identifying which particular Pinto lump I was working on. A ball park figure for setting a standard engine would be 1.5% C.O. at 800 RPM .

Thanks for that Rusty. My problem is---To register a kit car in Ireland--- You MUST PRODUCE official emission figures from a recognised source, or the powers that be will demand the highest levies as they presume that you are going to be a big polluter!!!. Cheers

If you're looking for a CO2/km (or similar) figure, then i'm afraid you're probably out of luck as i'm pretty sure nothing old enough to contain a Pinto has ever been measured in that way; up to then, only CO and HC figures were of any importance - i.e. the percentage of the gasses, rather than the quantity of them...

Would they also say that a kit car with an 850cc Mini engine was also in the "worse than a Range Rover" bracket?

Thank tou Turbo, you"ve hit the nail on the head!!!. The CO2/KM figure is the one I"m looking for.In this country things have gotten so bad, that the Dept of Transport would charge £2000 to register a HONDA 50 if they could get away with it.!!!. If anyone comes up with a way to convert BANKERS into fuel,they would make a fortune and do the general public a great service!!!!.
Regards

Sadly, I think you will be out of luck with finding a figure as the CO2/KM figures were banded around about 10 years after the last Pinto engine left the doors of Mr. Ford...At this rate it would be cheaper to use a Zetec from a 1998 Escort 1.8 GTi - as you'd be able to get a figure for that...maybe

Not to mention that a CO2/km figure would only be of any relevance to the complete original vehicle, not the engine. Once you remove the engine and put it into a car with differing weights, tyre sizes and aerodynamics it's a completely meaningless figure. Still most bureaucrats make their living by meaningless figures I suppose....