Tuning A Pinto

[Guest Kennedy48]

Anyone in the northeast (Newcastle upon Tyne area) know of any good places to tune a 1.8 pinto with standard carbs. Been messing with it myself waiting til I find a good one but not Manu places seem to do carbs

cheers

luke

[Guest motokustom]

There is a firm online called the carburettor Hospital. I called them and although they seem a bit half soaked persevere! What they can't tell you off their heads there and then ain't worth knowing! My advice and this is what I did is to get the basic settings for your carb. This should get it running and then I took it to a local garage and had them set it so it was within legal mixture for MOT purposes. This actually sorted the carb! Mine is a 2L Pinto with DG Weber carb... hope this helps... Cheers Dave

[Guest Kennedy48]

Cheers. Went to a garage the other day. They said they wouldn't touch it. He was telling me that there's not much I can do to it to make it any better. I was trying to tell him I'm not interested in making it all fancy. Just wanted it back to standard-running right. I have the pearburgh(how ever it's spelt) I'm gona pop to a garage tomorrow to get the mixture sorted then set timing. I have a strobe on order so if it's easy.

Cheers

luke

[Snapperpaul]

I seem to remember that the Pieburg was a difficult carb to work on as most of it was factory set and sealed it also had some strange auto choke problems.

It would probably easier to find and fit a standard 32/36 weber

[Guest paulrrh2b]

Hi

 

Take it to Motoscope in Northallerton, they have rolling roads etc and specialise in Pinto / Rally Escorts and setup.

 

I found them very helpful and reasonable. I think it was about £140 for a full session on the rolling road and carb / timing setup etc.

 

http://www.motoscope.co.uk/

 

Paul

[chris27]

yep second the boys at motorscope they are top !!

[Guest tmarryat]

I've been recommended I & J MacDonald Racing by colleagues. I've not used them myself, but plan to when my S7 is back on the road. It'd be a closer option then Motorscope.

[Guest mower man]

throw the Pierberg in the skip buy a Weber .28/36, 32/34 etc and you will be able to get people to help ,that peirburg was an instrument of SATAN my op based on trying to get new fords to run on them back in the days when they were factory fit mowerman

[Guest Ian & Carole]

Luke

When you say "TUNE a Pinto" do you mean "TUNE a PInto" or do you mean "SET up a Pinto" ?? because these statments can be miles apart as to what you are really looking for.

Like Mick above (Mowerman) says bin the Pierburg.

[Guest night hawk]

I used a colour tune set up from acuspark, when i first fitted was running rich, reset and works a treat, look on ebay loads on the site.