I STRIP & REBUILD MY PINTO 2.0L CYLINDER HEAD! *FAST ROAD CAM* 

Bloody hell, Mitch. I love watching these. You're doing exactly the same things I was doing in the 80's. I was mates with three brothers. I had a mk3 Cortina, one of the other brothers had a Capri, the other had a mk2 1600E. The last brother was a bit of a weirdo and had a 1275 GT mini. :). We fitted Kent cams. Kenlow fans, twin Webbers and K&N filters. probably gave us at least 5mph total, but we loved it. Every weekend we work on one car or the other.

Great content this Mitch - you covered everything and did it all proper old school on a bit of cardboard on the floor of your Dad's garage! Just how it would've been done 30 years ago!

Great video! Top tip when the engine is built, before the dizzy and rocker cover are fitted, put the oil in the sump and use a long hex drive socket through the dizzy hole into the oil pump hex shaft on an electric drill and spin it up to prime the oil circuit. You will then see the oil coming out of all the spray bar holes. Good idea to do that before initial start up. Was going for an FR32 myself but fitted a high torque FR30 instead. All great cams 👍

Hi Mitch. When you're ready to fire it up, use zinc rich break in oil, or a zinc additive to the oil. If you don't, it'll eat the cam lobes! Been there 🤦‍♂️ Also, set the idle to 2000 to 2500rpm for 20 to 30 minutes. This'll bed in the cam nicely ready for a damn good thrashing 🤣 Cheers. Leigh.

Hi Mitch, the main problem with the pinto head was the camshaft spray rail, use to glogg up and seize camshaft the break. 👍

What a great video, thoroughly enjoyed it from start to finish. I have no doubt the Escort will be fantastic when finished

Well done Mitch another great video of the escort cant wait for more :)

Well done mate nice to see you back on track with the escort build love the videos look forward to the next one 👍

Great video Mitch. I would double check those tappet settings, when #4 is rocking, # 1 is set, when 3 number 2 when 1 number 4 and when 2 number 3 is set. I noticed that you turned each one until the cam lobe faced upwards. It might not be 100% correct that way pal. Once which ever one rocks and the adjacent one is set, the cam must not be turned everytime to set a tappet. The cam must remain in the position when setting that specific cylinder's tappets. Only turned to the next cylinder until that is rocking to set that adjacent tappets, and so on. Top man.👍

I love your confidence working with this engine you can tell your on the tools fantastic mitch I'm enjoying the journey with this built.

Great video Mitch, thoroughly enjoyed it and you lapping the valves in bought back many memories of me doing that in my younger years 😁👍

to check the old v new springs, put one on the top of another, turn 90 degrees, put in vice, sufficient to hold them, then measure their length. then gently tighten up, you should be able to watch/ measure the old, weak spring compressing the quickest. the way to tell if a valve is lapped in correctly, is to look for a thin matt grey line on the valve seat in the head, + a matching line around the valve. all 4 inlets should be the same width of grey as its sisters, + all 4 exhausts the same as their sisters. shiny, or dotted finishes show further lapping reqd. "twist, then lift", after 10 twists of your grinding stick, lift up 10 mm, [it brings the paste back onto the seat] then another 10 twists, usually takes about 10 goes to fully lap a valve. valve oil seals usually need a "tap" from a hammer + suitable socket to secure them in place, if they come loose, they ride up + stop working. the camshaft oil seal should be flush with the head, too far in + it can block an oil gallery, or spit out ---IMPORTANT --- before you fit the rocker cover, fill up sump, drop in dizzy [any position], oilfilter + pressure switch in, then spin the aux. pulley with a drill [it was a speedbrace for old me], until you can see a steady stream of oil coming out of each hole in the spraybar. this proves the oilpump is working,+ your cam will last more than 10 minutes [not even joking !!!] PS gan canny with tightening cork gaskets, really no more than screwdriver tight, or they will split... PPS dont use sealant on the camcover gasket, you will need to take it off to recheck headbolts + cam clearances after a few hours running...

Really good how too.. can't wait for this thing to live, 2.1, carbs, old skool all the way.

Finally Mitch !! Was getting bored of auctions ! Lol Keep up the good work matey

Good video I do like a bit of engine work soon as you took the head off I thought to myself you got to put a cam in it and you did it's going to be a nice engine.

Great purchase for the engine dude. Great work mitch ✌️👍

Been looking foward to this video ,,I’m ant 3weeks behinds after being away on holiday just trying to catch up hope your well buddy,, 2:20

Another great video Mitch. You are the new Ed China 👍😎

Great work Mitch keep it up mate 😊good spannering

You need to work from a bench mate & save bending down all day.

What a score, you really lucked in there Mitch, it looks great 😊 that cam shaft kit is the dog’s dangly bits, nothing like fitting a fast road cam in a new build engine 😮. I must admit to almost jizzing when you opened the camshaft box, hells yeah 😊 Ps…..can you enlarge the oil passages on the spray bar?

Nice work, although might have been worth cleaning up backs and faces of the valves in the drill and you could of 'port' matched the manifolds to the head with a dremel type tool to help air flow prior to the skimming or building up of the head. Sure as a 2.1 it will run pretty well anyway 👍 Keep it up,be good to see the more door running soon enough.

Great stuff keep up the great content love these pinto vids

Good video Mitch. Keep up the good work mate

If your gonna get into pinto engines it be worth getting a book written by vizzard burton should have a copy it’s a must have

Excellent love a good engine rebuild vid

Nice work Mitch

Well done mate. Nice informativ video

Top job mate. 🤌🤌

Iv never seen anyone rebuild a head on there garage floor, the key to rebuilding an engine is cleanliness, all the dust and grit that gets blown round and kicked up at the entrance of a garage will inevitably be all over that head,

Great video again.

good lad

Hiya how do you put the clips on the nipple towers as your video skips that ? Ive started putting mine on & its slack .how do i make them tighter

Lovely old job

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hey mate. looking awesome. did you fit hardened valve seats ?

Sorry if you said it and I didn't hear, but did you put hardened valve seats in your pinto's head or are they stock just lapped?

Are the cam bearing shells worn they look bronze.Great video

hi another great vid r you going to fit a high presure oil pump,,,

Adjusting valves with head flat on floor not such a good move , you could bend valves as they open there being pressed against the floor.

Hi Mitch does the spray bar have an O ring seal that fits between the spray bar and cylinder head

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why do you all scratach about on the floor

Nice one Mitch, I enjoy all your videos, keep them coming.