Change Or Upgrade Ford Pinto 1.6 Engine

[Guest JOB]

Hi Everybody from Barcelona,

 

I´m new user in this Community !

 

Recently i bought a Robin Hood S7 built in 1984 with a Ford 1.6 engine with a single weber carb.

The car is running well but i need more power in this engine.

Please, what i´ts the better option to get mor hp, upgrade the engine or change with a 2nd hand one ?

Here in spain i cand find some Ford engines from Sierra, Escort & Fiesta models with diferent cylinder capacity,

wich is the best one and more ease to fit in the Robin Hood ?

 

 

Thank you for your help

[megadodo]

Hi there,

Welcome to the mad house! Personal experience and from what others have written on this forum I would go for a different bigger engine rather than trying to extract more power from a 1600 pinto. There are lots of threads on engine types on the forum, have a look in the engine section. I'm sure others will come back with ideas very quickly.

[Longboarder]

Again welcome to the rhocar community. The 1.6 pinto is a good engine but will not give much more power and will be expensive. !.8 pinto or CVH from sierra are not good choices. The easiest change is to fit a secondhand 2.0L pinto. It will fit on the engine mounts and the gearbox you already have using the 2.0 flywheel and clutch. The ignition system you have will work it fine. The cooling system and pipework will fit. The only change will be a new carburettor and manifold. This is the easiest engine to fit and also the cheapest extra power you will ever buy. Also a good strong engine to tune with lots of parts available if you want even more power.

It is possible to fit Ford zetec E or duratec, Vauxhall/Opel 2.0 XE or Toyota 4AGE using special bellhousings but expect minimum cost of £1000 or more for fueling and ignition and special parts. All are good engines and have great tuning potential.

 

You decide. 2.0L pinto for the cost of the engine, about £100-200 and almost no other parts to buy gets my vote as simple easy cheap upgrade.

 

Nigel

[Snapperpaul]

Nigel gives good advise, the 2L Pinto will give you 20 to 30 More bhp straight out of the box, with some simple mods, cam and carbs you could see close to another 30bhp

A total of 60 bhp more, not to be sniffed at.

I would look for a later injection engine as this will be unleaded, have a better inlet port short side turn and also come with con rods that can rev to 7200 all day and 7500 for those special moments when letting go of the steering wheel would be foolish.