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Nice but also interesting. Dont your Pintos have cut outs (or indent as the case may be) near the auto choke mechanism? I didnt think it would even fit without one?

Hi...which bit are you talking about.? Everything on it is standard apart from the air filter...and hoses...and manifold...oh, and petrol filter.

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Hi...which bit are you talking about.? Everything on it is standard apart from the air filter...and hoses...and manifold...oh, and petrol filter.

 

Sorry I should have mentioned on the cam cover, having been moulded with an indent for the auto choke mechanism and piping. I knew there were later cam covers that didnt have the indent but I always assumed it was for carburettors that didnt have an auto choke.

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Sorry I should have mentioned on the cam cover, having been moulded with an indent for the auto choke mechanism and piping. I knew there were later cam covers that didnt have the indent but I always assumed it was for carburettors that didnt have an auto choke.

Not sure? I have the original which was very rusty so I changed it....just checked it and it's the same as this..

 

I'm sure the pinto guru's will help? Anyone offer their thoughts?

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Not sure? I have the original which was very rusty so I changed it....just checked it and it's the same as this..

 

I'm sure the pinto guru's will help? Anyone offer their thoughts?

 

 

Possibly the early narrow gasket ones had the recession for the auto choke ?

 

I always thought that was the case but I was surprised that you could still fit the wider gasket ones without the recession with an auto choke carburettor. It kind of makes the recession redundant all along!

 

I will take some photos of the ones I have.

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My freshly black powder coated cam cover with the auto choke recession and a brand new wide gasket type.

 

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As you can see its not some little indent is about half the length of the cam cover itself to also allow the heater pipes to sit along it as well.

 

Having seen your photo I tried the later cover and for the life of me I couldnt make it fit. My only guess is that a better inlet manifold was created with extended pipes that move the carburettor a centimetre or so out from the cam cover giving it more space. Its such a slight modification no one notices unless you put the manifolds side by side.

 

You own a car for 30 years yet there is still something you can learn out them every day, fascinating!

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I've never seen one like that either.

 

Really? All Australian Pintos are like that. Cortinas included. I simply assumed that all Pinto engines with an Auto choke were the same including the European ones given that the engines came complete from Europe and were not assembled here. So all Pinto cam covers there dont have any recess whatsoever for the Auto Choke assembly? Not even early Mk1 RS2000s?

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Really? All Australian Pintos are like that. Cortinas included. I simply assumed that all Pinto engines with an Auto choke were the same including the European ones given that the engines came complete from Europe and were not assembled here. So all Pinto cam covers there dont have any recess whatsoever for the Auto Choke assembly? Not even early Mk1 RS2000s?

Can't say for the early Mk1s but I'd say no recess in general for the other UK Pintos.

 

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Can't say for the early Mk1s but I'd say no recess in general for the other UK Pintos.

 

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Well my RS2000 one does have the recess its the original narrow rim one.

Still very close to protruding bolt from auto choke housing.

 

Just put the powder coated one back on and snapped a photo with the choke. As you can see its so close that its is impossible to fit one without the recess which makes me think there must be a relationship with the type of inlet manifold you got with the type of cam cover you got. Could it be a case that original Pinto engined Escorts got the smaller manifold/recessed cam cover due to space limitations compared to Capris, Cortinas and Sierras?  In the UK that recessed cam cover therefore may have been found only on RS models along with other unique features like the alloy sump etc. RS Pinto engines are nothing special here, they have a pressed steel sumps and manifolds the same as those that went into Cortinas. So to save messing around with having two distinct spec engines they kept most things the same and just changed the sump depending on if it was for a Cortina or Escort. Hence why all ours have the recess regardless.

 

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Apologies to Tackleberry for hijacking his thread on this. His nice shiny cam cover made me interested.

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Could it be the wide lip injection ones are the ones without the recess? 

 

Yes all the wide lip injection ones appear to be without recesses. However its not the case that all the narrow lip ones have the recess. It appears that only RS models in the UK have the recess while all Australian ones have the recess regardless of what car it went into. Any car with the recessed camcover appears to have a different inlet manifold with shorter inlet lengths.

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