still not inpressed with escort

[BronzeRS]

Agreed. I am extremely impressed with my Pinto. Fast road cam and stage one head are the only mods I have. As soon as I had it shoved on a rolling road, it was like driving a different car, more acceleration and a hell load quicker to pick up once you opened her up!!!

[Guest MK1gaz]

A question for all the people out there that refuse to pay £100ish for a decent rolling road tune = Would you spend £4000 on a guitar and then play it out of tune ?!!!!!!!!!

[Retromotorsport]

A question for all the people out there that refuse to pay £100ish for a decent rolling road tune = Would you spend £4000 on a guitar and then play it out of tune ?!!!!!!!!!

 

Now thats the best thing you've said in ages

 

Gotta agree with Gaz, if you fit a carb and havnt changed anything else then the carb wont work, fit 45's and maybe you'll gain a bit of bhp at teh top end, but you will loose all the low down torque .. and its torque that moves the car.

 

Anything thats modified needs setting up, if you dont then you may as well take the money spent on the new bits and flush it down the loo.

 

Fit a 38dgas on standard 2L pinto and it will use more fuel, loose torque everywhere and gain maybe 2bhp over 6,500rpm .. and probably less everywhere else, but fit a cam, and get it jetted on the rollers and you'll see a gain everywhere.

 

The other thing when on the rollers .. dont go chasing pub figures

 

take 2 cars, identical in everyway .. and set one up with 130bhp-100ft/lb and one with 110 bhp-150ft/lb

the one with the bigger torque figure will drive better and also beat the higher bhp car on the street.

[timmy4doors]

gaz is right i took mine to the rollers was running like poo made 114bhp on first run then he had a fiddle changed the jet cos they had been soldered for a smaller engine waved the magic wand and i had 134bhp runs sweet now and cost me 117 quid money well spent (that was at sanspeed)

[Retromotorsport]

gaz is right i took mine to the rollers was running like poo made 114bhp on first run then he had a fiddle changed the jet cos they had been soldered for a smaller engine waved the magic wand and i had 134bhp runs sweet now and cost me 117 quid money well spent (that was at sanspeed)

 

What was the before and after torque ?

[timmy4doors]

that was before and after bhp the torque is around the same as the bhp the bloke said at sanspeed