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A great morning spent kicking tyres and swapping stories/ advice with some proud owners. One of them even let me sit in their Porsche Turbo (my dream car), Ian and I enjoyed a brew and chat at a busy car meet. Weather was great.

Thanks, Car is a Q plate registered in 2008 with only 5500 miles of history since registered…

Look up the MOT history on the gov.uk website. This will give you milage going back several years. I have forgotten when leaded was phased out but 20 years ago is the right ball park. If the engine is still running after all this time then valve seat regression is not a problem. My 2l pinto has an early head that ford says needs leaded petrol, I decided to see what happened and just ran it on unleaded 70,000 miles later it still runs.

When you say heater I take it to be a standard car heater where the waste head from the engine is transfered to the car through a small water radiator and a fan so 2 to 5 amps depending on fan speed. Lighting 5 amps for each headlight bulb plus 2 amps for everything else less if you have LED bulbs. so 12A. Everything else you mention less than 5A. total. So before electrical heated seats 20 to 25A max. Electrical heated seats are about 10A per seat though some have a higher initial setting for quick heatup but would only be at that setting for short times unless you live in siberia. 10A gives 120W try touching an old 100W bulb in your house after only a short time you get burnt. So I recon that 40A just about does you at night on a cold rainy day.

Enjoy, a little too far for me.

I have been frantically looking around the block, can’t see anything apart from what looks like the letter “F” on the side of the number 4 intake…

Hello Robin Hood hive mind! I’m out and about again enjoying the car in the improved weather since sorting my fuel tank issues and so inevitably, my mind turns to other things to sort and improvements to make. I raised up my steering column last year to make a little more room for my knees. Unfortunately I have noticed since doing so that the shaft is in fact touching the alternator. This is obviously far from ideal. It’s only lightly touching and so it’s not at present interfering with my steering ability, but for longevity’s sake of both shaft and alternator, I don’t want it to be this way forever! My alternator belt doesn’t appear to be doing especially well either, and so I’m turning my attention to addressing all of these things. I’ve been looking at possibilities for installing a more compact alternator to replace the stock Sierra Mk1 alternator that I’m guessing is in there currently. I’ve found a compact alternator on Car Builder Solutions that appears based on measurements to be a smaller diameter than the stock alternator, but it is only 40amps which to me sounds a little low. What are the thoughts on this? My car isn’t massively complex electronically but it does have a few bits and pieces that might be overly costly to a 40amp alternator. I have a heater, windscreen wipers and a Sony Bluetooth headunit. The car otherwise has normal things you’d expect such as lights, dashboard cluster etc and all that’s required to run a standard 2.0l pinto. My wife and I are thinking of installing heated seats from intatrim in the not too distant future and so there is the potential draw of that to consider too. My knowledge of how many amps I generally need and what kind of a downsize is just too low is somewhat limited, so any thoughts would be much appreciated! Enjoy the weather - looking forward to Malvern!

After a change of plan (I've bought a running one instead of building one!) I am selling a complete Dax Rush Bike Engined chassis, arms, bodywork, Wilwood Calipers, sierra LSD, Gaz front dampers, radiator and lots more as a complete package. I have the original bill of sale for the chassis. It has a genuine DAXRU chassis number, and there are other receipts and the DAX build manual included. See all the pics for parts included. I may split if there's enough interest. Looking for £2850 ono. Collection only from Dover CT16

As title. I'm looking for a set of used good or new cams, Kent model number FZ2002 to suit a Zetec silver top, and/or a set of vernier pulleys. Thanks, Andy

Thank you for the info! I have found a lot of that on the burton power website. i will look further around the engine.

I suggest that you scrape the paint off the machined flat surfaces next to the no 4 spark plug, it will then be clear if there are any markings there. If you find an * stamped then look on the other side of the head near the inlet port for no 4, (look there anyway). I have picked up the following information from the various threads on this frequent topic. It might be of use. N.B any marks will be punched not "scratched" or cast in the mold. Unleaded I/D for Pinto next to number 4 spark 1.6-- M,MM,N or NN 1.8-- S or SS 2.0-- P,PP,R or RR Have a look at the shape of the inlet ports. If they are round its no help but if they are cam lobe shape then its an injection head and is unleaded. 'I' OR 'L' stamped next to number 4 spark plug hole= a leaded head most likely to be 1979 - 1982 in age

Sorry Andi, I can't make it last month I'm assuming you mean 23rd May ? but more importantly - who's turn is it to get the beers in ? See you there mate.

OK, decision made. It will be Sywell Aerodrome (NN6 0BN) at 12:00. This is one of our favoutite haunts. It has a nice car park, a nice grassy area to sit and you get the bonus of a free museum (donations) and aircraft to watch and, most importantly, a toilet close by

Thanks for the reply. Unfortunately, ever since buying the car and moving house, I've lost all the paperwork and receipts. Based on information from other Robin Hood owners and the little information I got from the previous owner a couple of years ago, I think it's a 2-litre Pinto engine, and the donor car was a Sierra. Also, I believe it has Yamaha R1 carburettors. So the taping is during idle and yes it probably gets a little louder on acceleration.

i'm in Scotland, Glasgow. A local kit car gear head would be ideal.

Hello all, I have recently purchased a Tiger Cat E1 with a 2.0 Pinto engine, 205 block (November 1987) and the head is using carburettors. As the title says, I am trying to find identification marks near spark-plug 4 that would indicate if the head is an unleaded one. There is what looks like a vertical scratch on the block similar to the letter “I” but it does not look like factory marking. The previous owner bought the car themselves as is and they were not aware if the engine has been modified in any way by the original owner. Any ideas?

Yes please, put me down for one place. Ta

Put us down for Friday pub dinner. Thanks

We will be eating

As most will know the Dirty Duck Pub will be closed when we are at the Dirty Duck weekend. We are looking at eating at The Chequers at Woolsthorpe on Friday night, which is in the next village. This is a sample of the menu, children’s menu is available, if anyone is interested please let us know so we have provisional numbers, and we will go and have a chat with them. Please let us know asap. Thank you, Sharon & Kerry

You are moving back nearer me, I hope to make it. Ian

Hi all, This will be on 23/05/2024 at The George and Dragon Meaford, Stone ST15 0PX. Everyone welcome, just turn up. Ill be there about 6.30pm. There is food and you can order online if preferred. Map https://www.google.com/maps/place/George+%26+Dragon/@52.9162191,-2.1735143,1007m/data=!3m1!1e3!4m6!3m5!1s0x487a6f1e497e1e5b:0x53726cf3a32a2400!8m2!3d52.9157296!4d-2.1689576!16s%2Fg%2F1hc1cdm9c?authuser=0&entry=ttu Pub website https://www.thegeorgeanddragonmeaford.co.uk/?utm_source=gbp&utm_medium=Yext&y_source=1_MTQ0NTMyNjUtNzE1LWxvY2F0aW9uLndlYnNpdGU%3D Andi

Darrell, thanks for the info. Yes thats us showing an nice gentle run out.