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bec or pinto??
boggle - 31/3/10 at 09:23 PM

am toying with the idea of loosing the pinto and going with a bike engine....

now...

what would my pinto be worth?
its a 2ltr 205 block, with injection head, the whole engine has been fully rebuilt witha recon head, with a fast road cam, lightend flywheel, new clutch, type 9 gearbox....it also has a stainless 4 branch manifold.....

whats the best bike engine to look for and what else would i need to convert???

and how much???

am now with megajolt so would prefere a bike engine on carbs.....

cheers

barry

turboben - 31/3/10 at 09:28 PM

Is that the only choice?!

Benzine - 31/3/10 at 09:34 PM

quote:
Originally posted by boggle
am toying with the idea of loosing the pinto and going with a bike engine....


That's the exact opposite of Hellfire's yearly april fool thread that we'll no doubt be getting again this year ^_^

I sold my pinto on ebay and got twice what I was expecting, there was a mad bidding war towards the end. Mine was a recon 205 block, injection head, fast road cam, twin 45 webers and I got just over £800, then sold the lightened flywheel & exhaust so over a grand in total.

scootz - 31/3/10 at 10:02 PM

Have you driven a BEC Barry? Great fun when you're in time-attack-mega-banzai mode, but it can get pretty tiresome pretty quickly if you're just out for a pootle!

omega0684 - 31/3/10 at 10:14 PM

stick with the pinto mate, its simply the right thing to do, if you want i will try and sort out a membership to the P&O owners Club!

cerbera - 31/3/10 at 10:53 PM

quote:
Originally posted by scootz
Have you driven a BEC Barry? Great fun when you're in time-attack-mega-banzai mode, but it can get pretty tiresome pretty quickly if you're just out for a pootle!


I loved mine but like he says can be tiresome.

StrikerChris - 1/4/10 at 12:05 AM

i have no idea why anyone bothers with either now,there's so many challenges out there,maybe thats just me tho!i've still got a coventry climax and a rover v8 in my fleet tho so whats my opinion worth anyway!

My personal favourite is non of the above...

blakep82 - 1/4/10 at 12:32 AM

vauxhall 16v? duratec? zetec? so many better options

speedyxjs - 1/4/10 at 06:10 AM

quote:
Originally posted by blakep82
vauxhall 16v? duratec? zetec? so many better options


Jag

boggle - 1/4/10 at 07:04 AM

i have never driven either

mcerd1 - 1/4/10 at 08:19 AM

I'd stick with the pinto for now and get some use out of it

apart from anything else - if its IVA'd with a pinto on pre-cat emmisions - then all/any future engines will only have to meet the same standard as a the pinto does

norfolkluego - 1/4/10 at 11:10 AM

Zetec would be easier and a lot cheaper