Geez those old style ring compressors or ring breakers as I like to call them scare me.

I use a Z10 on my 2 Litre. Had never seen a Z9 on a pinto until Small Ford Sunday just gone. I have also seen Z89a used in it's place. Not sure about a pinto but a Z158 as far as I knew was for a Toyota Camry / Corona 2S & 3SFE engines.

Regards,
Craig.

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[br]great read mate!

whats estimate power are you aiming for, or expect to get?

cheers
rhys

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Well, any would be nice. I really don't know, we'll see when it's done. I guess I'm building it to the parts I want, I can't see it being massively more than standard. A bit of porting and polishing, bit of a cam and extractors, bigger Weber, so whatever you would expect from a fresh motor with those. I just don't have enough experience with Pintos to give any sort of a figure at all as to what to expect.

The car still got along ok before the rebuild, so if it's more than that, sweet action.

The rally car is where I am more interested in pulling as much power out as I can, chasing horsepower, as opposed to chasing a fun reliable package with this car.

The ring compressor worked fine for us?.

Interesting about oil filter numbers, if other people are using the Z9 I'll keep using it, as it's by far the cheapest filter available in the same brands range.

Timmeh

Since last time, I pulled the engine mounts apart, rubbed them back to bare metal, primed and sprayed them the same colour as the engine (except the rubber of course!).


Also, the clutch came in, so I have that ready to go back in.



I'll need to machine the flywheel before I put the new clutch in. Once that is done, it will be time to set a date to have the engine ready to go back in. We'll put the rear main seal, flywheel, clutch, and gearbox all on in one go, and then the whole lot into the car. I'll need to do some minor prep work to the engine bay, I had another look in there today and it's pretty clean, so just a case of making sure all the looms look tidy and that there are no signs of rust at all that I might have missed from when it came out.

I think I'll also be stripping back the rocker cover to bare metal, priming and spraying it - I need suggestions.

Should the rocker cover be chrome or painted, and if so, what colour?

The car body is white, but I think white in an engine bay is a bad idea, hard to keep clean? See photos in posts above for what the engine looks like if you need to see it! Here is a photo of the engine installed before it all came out for a rebuild, if that helps decide on a colour:



Photo probably doesn't help alot, pretty bad lighting. Woe is me, back in the days when I didn't know how to take a decent photo. You guys know what a Pinto in an Escort looks like and have probably seen a gazillion, any suggestions?

Timmeh

My old escort i had a blue rocker cover, my current one has a chrome one.. I must say i like the chrome, and i have various other parts chromed to match (extractors, pullys etc) and i think it looks quite good. I think the crome would suit your car..

Unreal job there mate. You make it look too easy, I have this strange feeling if i was to attempt anything like that there would be only one way it could go...
I reckon the chrome in the engine bay looks tops, mine came all chromed up and i couldn't be happier with it..But thats just my opinion. I have a feeeling that what ever way you will have it, its gonna look tops. (and go well too)

Cheers
Reece

The rocker cover is one of thoes things that you can paint any colour, depending on what colour you are painting all the little things like, brake calipers cam pullie ect. you could do it yellow to match your plug leads, black like original or crome to match your air cleaner ect ect ect. [%]

i went with a black rocker cover wit blue lines.....came out real good works with the rest of the body (white 2 door RS)[:p]

cheers
rhys

Engine bay detailing is one of my favorite hobbies. Essentially there will be 3 colours involved unless you want to spend a truckload. 1 detail colour, and black n silver. The only way to change the black or silver involves sleeving every piece of black hose etc.

The good thing about black bits, is they largely dissapear to the eye when there is plenty of silver and colour around. As for silver, you can paint things like hoseclamps and bolt heads, but they will only look good till the next time you take a tool to them.

When it comes to choosing your primary detail colour, remember that red means painting everything twice. once white, then red. same for yellow, etc. Its the only way to get the same red finish on all the parts you do. For this reason My latest effort will be in dark blue. Oh and if I could make one more suggestion, if you do it from cans, pick a brand and stick with it. There is nothing more annoying than having several blue parts that are not quite the same colour, etc.

Some very good ideas there, and good advice Vanman.

I am leaning towards a dark blue at the moment, it does appeal to me.

I also have another question for you gurus:

I failed to notice when I pulled the engine mounts from the RS that one is longer than the other. I have heard the longer one goes on the inlet side to allow for sidedraughts, is that true?

The Gregorys ( [xx(] yes I know) doesn't say anything other than remove and install. Anyone know?

Tim

Today I took the most of being stuck off my feet (just had knee surgery) to rub back some parts to bare metal, get rid of the deteriorated paint from them so I can throw them into the sand blaster. I know it seems a bit illogical to rub them right back to then sand blast them, but if you blast off too much paint in our sand blaster at work, it contaminates the sand too quickly and stops working.

So first I hit the rocker cover for the RS2000 (and also the headlight buckets to the rally car) with paint stripper, scraped off as much as possible, then got in with the 80 grit wet and dry and went hard. I'm a bit limited due to my knee, so I made a royal mess inside (though I did clean it all up ok!).


Here is the rocker cover now, ready to be blasted and primed, alongside the rally cars headlight buckets.



I'm still chasing information on the engine mounts, one being larger/longer/whichever way you look at it than the other. I didn't notice then when I removed them. Any ideas which goes on which side?