mk2 2.1 pinto

[mk2maniac]

had my car on the rollers couple weeks ago at tommy's rolling road abercynon top bloke
2.1 pinto (94mm bore)
injection head ported
grp1 inlet and exhaust valves
bronze valve gudes
unleaded valve seats
grp 1 cam
double valve springs
3 piece ashley manifold
h@h ignition and dizzy
11.5:1 compression ratio
cast pistons
injection rods
injection crank
twin 48's
187bhp @ the flywheel 148 bhp @ the wheels
with 207 nm of torque:woohoo:

[exboyracer]

Nice numbers, don't understand NM though - what's that in real money ? ;)

[4drmatt]

i think that may be 153 Ft lb

[mk2maniac]

yeah i think thats about right i didnt have a clue what it was in lbs/ft either

[flowmetrics]

So you have 40HP power loss from engine to wheels.
I believe that is big loss.

[Pushrod King]

So you have 40HP power loss from engine to wheels.
I believe that is big loss.

I think you may be right; at the rolling road I used my escort had 149.6 bhp @the wheels which was 180.5 bhp at the flywheel.that's 30.9 bhp transmission loss and that's on slicks.

[graham bahr]

i once had 80bhp transmission losses, it has to be said though at the time the engine was churning out 520bhp :eek: 40bhp would be a huge loss from somthing pinto powered

[steely dan]

good numbers :cool: thought average power losses for RWD is around 20-25% so it dosnt seem that bad

when i put the lada on TnRs it had about 45% loss :D so it could be worse, especially as it only made 44bhp at the fly :lol:

[mk2maniac]

i know a few people who have pintos and they loose about the same amount of power from engine to wheels