Thanks Jules

I've been watching your build on the other forum and am very interested to see how yours turns out.

Hey Gareth, that sounds fantastic, cant wait to see it go. Hope to see it on cup day if your going to Sandown. Well done mate

Phew, thats good power all right, congrats!

May I ask at what RPM that figure was produced?

Was around 7,000RPM or just a poofteenth over.

Hi Gareth,

Can I just check with you if this is a 8v pinto or are you running a cossie head, I'm building my pinto at the moment and the bottom end is pretty much specced like yours with the spool cossie rods, except it's got Wossner pistons from Germany c/r is 12:1 but i'll de-shroud the chamber, I was going to run 10.8:1 but if your not having any issue's with pump i might go to 11:1 like you, the head is a group 1 style head with short big valves and a RL31 cam, it's running (will run when finished) a wolf 3d with 50mm individual tapered throttle bodies they taper from 50mm to 45 mm at the manifold, and i'll put a 105speed big bore header set on it. They are fantstic numbers your achieving, if we assume 33% loss through the drive train then your pumping out 234+ hp at the flywheel, wow !! I was hoping to get 110klw at the wheels when finished so now i'm expecting abit more.

Cheers

Bodie

Hey Bodie

Yes its a regular 8 valve head with Group 1 exhaust valves and slightly bigger than group 1 inlet's. If you want to know more about the head you need to contact Wozzah as he built it.

I was surprised with the dyno output too but keep in mind all dyno's read differently and there is a bit of variance also in how high the car was sitting on the rollers etc. Perhaps mine wouldn't read quite as high on a different dyno.

I would also be assuming less power train loss than 33% but i am not really sure how to calculate this properly.

All i really care about is laptimes and that gets tested at Winton next weekend!

G

Yeah your right Gareth 33% is too high, there isn't that much going on down an escort drive train is there ? even so thats a stout pinto you have there, if we say 15% loss your still nudging 200 hp and thats nothing to sniff at, congrats and good luck at Winton, hopefully there will be some v8's there you can bother, hehe

cheers

Bodie

When do we get to see the dyno sheet?

And how about an update to the leader board???

Seems you've knocked Dannys old 8v off the top.

Well done.

Currently the highest NA pinto on the site???

Shaun

You wou have to see both engines on the same dyno on the same day to compare as the spec is telling there wouldn't be much of a comparison, you gotta love a rolling road

Danny

Thought I might get a bite danny

Shaun