I had a orange twin cam with a pinto 2ltr in it. All the gear. Used to pin the tacho at 8000rpm count to 3 then hit the next gear. It would pull 7800rpm in top gear. Awsombe fun.
Love the tacho footage. Here in 2023, you could get Ai to clean up all the Video interlacing lines in the footage. Wild Mk1 2.0L.... amazing its easily revving to over 8000rpm. Thats normally left for the BDA engines.
We call it the 2000cc Pinto here in the States , in Europe you call it the RS 2000... because you never had the Pinto....Either way...my favorate inline 4cyl OHC...Really responded well to Performance mods...I had it in the Capri Mark 1 and the Pinto....Manual Transmission was a must....Gears ..Carburation...and RPM....it loved all three...👍
Yeah I have a prefacelift 2.0 MK1 Capri and I was going to do a Duratec but they just don't sound as good. I might have to build up a 2.3 American Pinto instead!
why do the throttle bodies angle downwards when the intake ports are horizontal? how does mechanical injection compensate for sudden full throttle from idle? how does it enrich?
Nice vid, the music to photo movement right at the start is a nice touch. Shame there is no roadside shot with a camera pan as the car howles past........but still a nice vid.
the valves are ticking. But that is standard on a old ford. I had one Sierra 1,8 mk1. First car. Then I got an escort MK3 1,6. Then escort mk4. after mk4 again. And they was all ticking. Specially the MK3.;but the all 4 drove fine. At that time the cars was very expensive here in danmark. so I could just effort to drive ford. I upgraded later to a 323i E30. And have never drive ford since. but I really like those old escorts. Mk 1 mk2. But they are so crazy expensive . :(
Nice car, escorts are my LIFE, but could have shown some field action instead of just driving round a car park and a close up shakey view of the rev counter. Kinda made me feel ill
Back in 1974 I bought a RS2000 with standard exhaust system on it.Why do people put these noisey exhausts on cars nowadays? The only decent sound is from a vee 8 engine in my oplnion.
Geiles teil ich hatte bis vor kurzem einen RS 2000 MK2 fast orginal und zu 80% fertig , leidef wurde mir das Auto mit allem Zubehör geklaut. Pass gut auf deinen Schtz auf die Chance meinen zu finden sagt die Polizei sei sehr gering
Marc Pencott Nope, no carbs here, you can clearly see it if you open your eyes ;). Like I originally said, ITB's (individual throttle bodys) with injection and judging by the looks of the injectors and the hoses/piping to them it's actually an old skool mechanical injection, which is very special in it's own way. I have Weber 45 DCOE's on my own Pinto engine and I know how they look.
2 Things. 1. Loose the music, 98, 500 people click play to hear the car. 2. Get a cover on that timming belt, a stone will snap that belt if it get in. I speak from experience. We were lying first in class and tenth overall in our little 106 pug. The last stage , 300 meters from the end, the timming belt snapped and the engine put a leg out of bed, so to speak. Our Carlos Saints margam park moment. The timming cover had been removed to check a noise, but not replaced.
@@gwaponobby The original timing cover is pretty bad, it has a large gap there. I have heard that its even worse with the cover on. Eventually stones will get inside the cover and snap the belt.
If you do that in Germany, you can´t use the car on the street anymore. you have to use an old engine, or drive the car only on race tracks. This MK1 Escort is the maximum, what is legal on German streets. We have here too much rules for the street ... :(
