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    Pinto Race Engine Parts

    Breaking my broken all steel Pinto. Block, drysump pan and 2 rods and pistons are destroyed when it threw no.1 rod. The remainder is not too bad and pics are on the FB Pinto crossflow page.

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    Re: Pinto Race Engine Parts

    why did it throw a rod? bearing failure or something else?

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    Re: Pinto Race Engine Parts

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    why did it throw a rod? bearing failure or something else?
    I wondered that too.

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    Re: Pinto Race Engine Parts

    Quote Originally Posted by rallyrob View Post
    I wondered that too.
    sure i saw pics on facebook somewhere, most likely a chinese rod!

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    Re: Pinto Race Engine Parts

    Quote Originally Posted by Graham View Post
    sure i saw pics on facebook somewhere, most likely a chinese rod!
    Ahh that old chestnut. Cheap in the short term expensive in the long term...

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    Re: Pinto Race Engine Parts

    I would be very sceptical about using any part from a blow up engine, certainly fom the head down. I have experienced it first hand in the past and parts can be damaged that's not visible to the naked eye.

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    Re: Pinto Race Engine Parts

    Undergeared at Brands 50 years of the Escort, 8k revs halfway down pit straight and blew engine 2 laps from end of the race. Dry sump Oil system unable to remove the bubbly oily air from the good stuff.

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    Re: Pinto Race Engine Parts

    PEC rods and I'm informed they don't sell singles so not much use. Same engine did 3 hours plus at Spa in 2017 but correctly geared for 7.4k revs down the straights.

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    Re: Pinto Race Engine Parts

    Is the dry sump pump available it's only for mocking up so does not need to be usable

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    Re: Pinto Race Engine Parts

    Pm sent

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    Re: Pinto Race Engine Parts

    Was it defo a rod failure tho? Pec rods are capable of mucher higher sustained revs than 8k, where did it fail? and did the engine fail just as you lifted off from 8k?

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    Re: Pinto Race Engine Parts

    Rod nipped up with a rattle, slowed up, got louder then big explosion as it exited the block taking the jack shaft and dizzy with it. Crank bent and no. 1 big end burnt, belt came off, pistons kissed valves and bent 6 of them. Oil pressure never dropped but I should have shut it down as soon as I heard the noise but noisy faster cars were passing and was caught in the moment. Looking for a cossie crank to rebuild the thing.

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    Re: Pinto Race Engine Parts

    Doesmt sound like there would be much of any use to rebuild. Cossie crank is probably unecesary and expensive, Pinto crank is strong enough.

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