@Charles Dunne. You may already know this. Wasn't it the case that the Pinto car was not the success that Ford had hoped for? I am sure I read that the name "Pinto" - describing a small horse (and an entry-level Mustang possibly?) was also Mexican slang for "small penis"!
@@markmiwurdz202 Yeh heard that before about the mexican slang. lol From what i got told by an old Ford guy, was that the Pinto engine that we got in the UK was a smaller version of the engine that was in the Pinto car that the USA had, theirs was a 2.3 I believe, our was a 1.6 and a 2.0 litre that could be bored out to about 2.1 without too many issues, we all had 2.1 escorts back in the 80''s, I even cut off part of the 2.0 badge on the wing to make it say 2.1 on my RS2000 lol Back then, before the internet, I was always looking out for a proper 2.3 Pinto engine, to see if it would go in an Escort, but there was never any in any magazine that I looked at.
@@Sennaxm71 as I recall, the base Pinto engine was the 1.8 liter version (based on a German Ford design). The most desirable Pinto engine was the "Lima" engine, 2.3 liters (built in the Ford Lima Engine works in Lima, Ohio). Circle track racers could easily get 150 horsepower from the Lima. It was eventually offered from the factory with 200 horsepower (turbocharged) in the Ford Thunderbird Turbo Coupe, the Mustang SVO, and the Merkur XR4ti. It was also built in the millions here for much more mundane vehicles, like the base model Foxbody Mustang (all 83 horsepower in factory form), and the 1983-2010 North American Ford Ranger (with a twin spark plug ignition system in the Ranger!).
Have not watched any of the old Elvis content yet. Saw the title and said I would give this a watch in anticipation of the new series. I expected to see an ex F1 mechanic show an engine rebuild. What I saw instead was someone do a half-arsed job of throwing some paint onto an engine. With all the old crumbly red paint underneath, the blue will not last long. It was painful to watch. Please, please, please do better in the new series. Elvis is undoubtedly a top mechanic - lets see him do better than this.
Shouldn't we have seen the cylinder head being removed, valve guides, rings and bearings etc all checked. Carbs looked dirty, so should have been overhauled. The Big Man would have been shaking his head watching this rubbish of a program.
Well if he does change the chassis on a TVR let's hope he does a better job than Edd did when he scraped chunks of the fresh paint of the new chassis by trying to get the body to fit with a crowbar, that was real amateur hour.
And WD is blind enough not to realize that it was EDD all the way and not the over rated parts and car sales guy Mike ...I mean does WD ever in the right senses or just smitten by Mike bullying them....Ant Mike is gonna do to you what he did to Edd .......
@@joebloggs4369 Mike ratted out on Edd that's what it's all looking like. Infact Edd is still more a a brand ambassador that the parts guy , but Edd made the show more interesting...Mike was always trying to impress people...like in school ( show off )
@@chilligaviar3633 I think there were issues on both sides, particularly once Attaboy sold the series and they moved to the US. Paul Brackley was the real mechanical genius who did all the behind-the-scene work for Wheeler Dealers in the UK, when Attaboy were doing the shows. All that was lost once it was sold and moved.
@@joebloggs4369 I don't disagree with you and appreciate your reply. But there is more to what triggered Edd to feel the way he did and the parts guys played along....or parts guy played smooth enough so that he may regain what he never had ...
Here in the USA, this engine was used in ‘71 to ‘73 US Pintos in 2.0L form. I had one in a ‘73 Pinto runabout with a 5 speed in 1984-85. I rebuilt it in stock form and it ran like a top. It was a really good and reliable motor in a seriously crappy car. In the USA, we got the “Lima” engine in 1974 as a 2.3L. Very similar engine but also completely different with zero common parts. The 2.0L engine was a great unit and I think better than the Lima, although I build a lot of Lima’s back in the day!
Our family had a couple of Pintos which never exploded. Including the one that got rear ended. The 71 had the original 2.0L engine. Our later Pinto wagon had the 2.3L engine. I never considered that either of these engines would be good for racing as they were so anemic in USA tune. They were dependable, but I hated those two barrel Weber and Holley carbs. They weren't particularly dependable and were really 1.5 barrel carbs as they were really sequential opening. Whenever I see one on a British engine replacing a SU or Stromberg Dual carb set because of Reliability issues with side draft carbs, all I could think was "ah, you ruined it because you don't know how to set up twin carbs!" The 2.0L engine was the better engine but did eat cams if you didn't change the oil regularly. The holes in that oiler tube would get blocked up and goodbye cam.
Last year i cleaned out my shed & gave away a 2.1 Pinto built on a 205 block. Burton stage 3 head, Kent FR32 cam, lightened & balanced bottom end. Didn't know they were worth any money!
Wowsers 😮 they would have been skipping away with that. If you have anymore like that in the garage you want taken away I’d be more than happy to assist......
@@eldonmiller955 If that is what an F1 engineer considers an engine rebuild then I am staggered. I have never rebuilt an engine but even I could have done a better paint preparation and finish.
@@reggiedixon2 Click bait... report and get this shite off you tube ... Mind you it's a funny game predicting what he will clean next... Brewers got the heritage center next door ... Nuff said
The pinto block was used by Cosworth to produce the YB family of turbocharged engines. These were installed to power the awesome Ford Sierra RS500 touring car racer. In qualifying trim anything up to 650bhp.
Pintos were available with the German 2.8 V-6 engine from 1975 to 1979. I owned 5 of them. They were fantastic performers and would take huge abuse. Made the Pinto and Mercury Bobcats totally different to drive. I only had 1 Pinto with the 2.3 4 banger.
Well i've seen these in real life and they go that's no joke, only problem is escorts REALLY do get rusty in all the inner guards pretty quick but they do go hard
I put a 302 V8 out a 1969 mustang in my last pinto after watching this Im having the stock engine rebuilt and all the performance parts installed on my next one ... I love the inline 4
Those gaskets need no sealer nor grease. They have small tabs which keep them in place and are made from cork. I've rebuilt dozens of Pinto engines. Blown many up too. We used to buy those for £50 - £100.
Bless you for recovering or going in on a Pinto. I remember the bodies as more of 2 x 2 coupe, 2 doors only, red painted, maybe with Mustang, not as a 4 door sedan. But, i guess those are unrace-able in the rally you're showing in the history. But, great to see
Hey guys Q) why have you never rescued a Ford cortina TC-TD with EITHER a cylinder or a 6 cylinder engine . With a 4 speed 4 on the floor transmission. I had the 2lt overhead cam 4 cylinder with a 4 on the floor transmission and it went like the calipers and with plenty of power in speed and pulling power a great little car , So again I ask why haven't you ever done a CORTINA
My first car was a Pinto, and I owned 2 more after that. The car was crap but the engine, the American version, was great. Easy to work in, indestructible, and fun to modify. Heck, I drove one on mune 15 miles with almost no oil, valve cover gasket blew, and it still made it home and tokk next to nothing with basic tools to fix.PS, no idlt didn't blow up, mostly rusted out 😂
Back in the early mid 90’s I use to source American 1.6l and 2.0l for world renowned engine builder Ivey Racing Engines in Portland Oregon. All the engines I would take them the blocks and heads were cast in Germany. The motors had to come from only 1970 to 72 bodies. In that time I must have sold them 40 or 50 of them.
Is that the 2.0L SOHC engine? I have a 1973 Pinto (in the U.S.) with that engine. I rebuilt it about 20 years ago, and it's starting to get tired. It has one overbore left, but I can't find hardly any parts for it. There are slight differences between it and that engine. The alternator is on the left side on mine, and the breather cap on the cam cover is different. Mine has a single 2 barrel Weber carb. Maybe just the differences because the Pinto was never sold in the UK, and the engine was set up for another car. Anybody know where to find parts for this engine?
Here in the US, we consider the Chrysler 4.0L straight 6 a great motor, that was replaced by the shite 3.8 then the 3.6 Pentastar. I think you blokes mainly got the 2.5L and some form of diesel in the Jeep Wranglers that were available there, considering your outrageous fuel prices, what we paid per gallon you were paying per litre
C'mon Miky , Ya know Edd got you to where you are ....so sell it to the producers like you sell cars buddy. And hey guys dont they and badger Edd on this ...
@@jasoneldridge4738 there are differences. But despite some of the Europeans thinking parts arent interchangeable and they are totally different, well they truly arent. Prototype heads for the pinto have been fit to the lima. Cossie heads have been fit to the lima. Now the lima does have a much stronger block. And a much stronger aftermarket. But the straight fact is they are similar enough for parts interchangeability.
Hi, big fan of the show, any chance Mike you guys could restore an Australian car, I think you have what you call a Vauxhall Monaro, which is Holden Monaro here down under and a Pontiav GTO in the states. Here's hoping.
Generally a great show, but there's just too many instances of implied\staged tension creeping in, and it's beginning to grate. Please consider not doing it. I love the detail and step by step view of a car or engine being repaired or rebuilt.
My elder brother bought one of the early 2.0 litre Cortina's first released in Australia and it was a rocket. I know it had one two barrel carby and I'd never ridden in a four like it. Being the first of the 2.0 Litre Cortina's it had the Pinto engine but unfortunately the Aussie built version could not compare.
I don't know what you mean by this. Unless it was the low compression version it was the same as the European version except for air filter (and in the case of the European RS2000, a twin branch rather than a single branch exhaust manifold).
Unless you have the time and money to worry about special products and techniques, brushing paint on an engine is the way to go. The bristles push the paint into the porous cast iron rather than just lay it over top
Wait, what!? So, Lewis is working in the Med as a sailor and needs to book a specific ship-to-shore call to discuss an engine for his MKI Escort and does not haggle on the asking price, even though it is unseen by him, or any of his friends or family... Another _crew_ member _buying_ from WD?!
@@TheAndy1268 Any mention of Pinto in America will bring a negative connotation. Ford built a good looking low quality car that you could hear rust. If you read the comments I am willing to bet someone will talk about them blowing up when rear ended. The Pinto was a low point in the American car industry why my comment was what it said. It is interesting that a Pinto derivative engine in England is a huge deal .
Same here wherever music has been pasted over Mike's voice. Note I'm listening in stereo. This problem seems to be common those days, already fixed by "Time Team Classics" for those who know... Wheeler Dealers please don't forget stereo 2.0 users, a lot of excellent ampli's are still alive !
My dad bought us teenagers a Ford Pinto. The engine I believe was European. It had plenty of go and on top of that literally sipped gas. It was getting more then thirty miles to the gallon. We ran it all month putting a couple of bucks in it for gas. Lol My friends father bought him a Vega. He thought that would top our Pinto. lmao
Two brand new 40s on a manifold cost less than what he says the used pile of parts he says are carbs. The Pinto was the last choice of motorsport; used in a few RS2000 touring cars. The twin cam series were the motorsport choice. Of the Pintos, the 205 injection blocks were the most sought after. No mention of that so I guess it's a £50 200 block.
"200" block (Cosworth 4WD) is actually even more sought after than 205 block (Cosworth 2WD. I believe you meant "20" block which is older and thinner casting version from 200/205 blocks.
Works Escorts NEVER used the Pinto engine, they only ever use the Homologated Lotus Twin Cam or the Cosworth BDA. Pintos were only ever used at clubman level in racing. And Pinto engines were only painted blue until 1976, after that they were all black.
For a video with pinto in the title, I'm pretty sure there was not a single pinto in the video. 2.3l is probably one of the most popular ford engines for many different vehicles. They were even showing escorts while saying pinto...
That Carplan engine paint is about £7 for a tin, add a paintbrush and a smear of grease for the gasket and it’s well worth £2600. At least refurbish the carbs.
Many moons ago, I had two of these in a TE Cortina GL and TF Cortina S, that's a MK5 and a MK6 in Brexitstan #JC. In Australia, in these last two cortinas the engines were painted black. What a good thing they were. The TE was my first car, it got on its first birthday. Driven hard but looked after over four years it never let me down .Handling was rubbish/dangerous, always trying to pass itself...kept you on your toes though. The TF was a much nicer steer in every respect, way more refined. A nice original TF Ghia with 68 000 kms made $28 000 at auction in Sydney mid last year. Would love to re-own all my old cars.
I don't understand why these engines are so expensive the "Pinto" was in pretty much every other Cortina, Capri, Transit Van, Granada and Sierra. Yet another example of making "classics" out of stuff which is definitely not classic. Before we know it the crappy old Ford CVH engine will be a "motorsport classic"
You know what you are doing. What I object to is that the "classic industry" has seen an opportunity to to make the crap and junk that nobody aspired to drive when it was new into "modern classics". This "industry" has realised there is an audience out there funded by final salary pension pots that are fighting each other to buy "the car they wanted when in their 20's" but now the desirable models are too expensive they settle for the poverty trim versions. They soon realise that they paid way over the odds for something like a wheezy 1.3 Capri that is as crap to drive now as it was then. It's no wonder the same cars end up back at the auctioneers 2yrs later. You only have to watch the many TV programmes where the presenters orgasm over some rusty old rubbish fuelling the market.
The Pinto is popular in historic rally's and short oval/hot rod racing. The Pinto was the father of the Cossie YB so it deserves it's status. Most Cortina's, Sierra's and Transits have been scrapped thus scarcity. The CVH on the other hand was a boy racer's cult classic in the RS Turbo, I think these will one day become sort after as well but nowhere near the Pinto
The guy was an F1 mechanic for McLaren when Lewis Hamilton won his first world title, no disrespect to Edd, who I am a big fan of, but he wasn't. Two differing approaches to the same idea, neither are wrong.
@@baitse7676 I am not saying that they do or don't, I am saying that his mechanical knowledge is sufficiently high enough to work on some of the most highly complex, state of the art engines and if he says he uses grease for the reasons stated, I would expect anyone who wishes to pour scorn on those reasons to have at least the same, if not better, mechanical experience.
@@calibrazxr750 He Changed wheels part time for McLaren ... The guy is a FAKE... Arse and elbow spring to mind when did a so called Highly skilled mechanic you know do such a crap non job
Who is this elvis guy?,here in australia we are getting the episodes with ant (once a week) so did ant jump ship or was he pushed?,although i do like ant i miss edd china,judging by the comments ive seen edd has a huuuuge following 😁😁 & most dont like mike brewer 😂😂
Wait…. Did I just see that guy just paint over old paint on a cast iron engine block? What if there was rust under the red paint? Weird but maybe I’m wrong?
Some folks live to haggle, but I hate it. I'll do it, but I don't really see the point. The seller knows what he'll accept, the buyer knows what he is willing to pay. Yet when I sell stuff I have to overprice it because I know that the buyer will want to haggle.
UK the Pinto is a classic racing legend.
U.S. the Pinto explodes in a ball of flames.
@Charles Dunne. You may already know this. Wasn't it the case that the Pinto car was not the success that Ford had hoped for? I am sure I read that the name "Pinto" - describing a small horse (and an entry-level Mustang possibly?) was also Mexican slang for "small penis"!
@@markmiwurdz202 Yeh heard that before about the mexican slang. lol From what i got told by an old Ford guy, was that the Pinto engine that we got in the UK was a smaller version of the engine that was in the Pinto car that the USA had, theirs was a 2.3 I believe, our was a 1.6 and a 2.0 litre that could be bored out to about 2.1 without too many issues, we all had 2.1 escorts back in the 80''s, I even cut off part of the 2.0 badge on the wing to make it say 2.1 on my RS2000 lol Back then, before the internet, I was always looking out for a proper 2.3 Pinto engine, to see if it would go in an Escort, but there was never any in any magazine that I looked at.
K'sake. It's an engine designation NOT the CAR as per the USA.
Are people genuinely so dumb?
But in the US pinto is a terrible car
In the uk pinto is an awesome little 4banger of an engine
@@Sennaxm71 as I recall, the base Pinto engine was the 1.8 liter version (based on a German Ford design). The most desirable Pinto engine was the "Lima" engine, 2.3 liters (built in the Ford Lima Engine works in Lima, Ohio). Circle track racers could easily get 150 horsepower from the Lima. It was eventually offered from the factory with 200 horsepower (turbocharged) in the Ford Thunderbird Turbo Coupe, the Mustang SVO, and the Merkur XR4ti. It was also built in the millions here for much more mundane vehicles, like the base model Foxbody Mustang (all 83 horsepower in factory form), and the 1983-2010 North American Ford Ranger (with a twin spark plug ignition system in the Ranger!).
Wheeler dealers all over for me. I am watching Edds diaries now as it’s shows proper rebuilds and engineering.
Looking at Edds channel aswell, im glad he still avalible to watch!:) And now on his own terms
Not what I'd call a rebuild. A repaint and a couple of gaskets.....
and some fake scripted drama that it won't start, it's just sad
Yup, pathetic.
Still miss Edd on this show. The should have kicked the chubby obnoxious guy instead.
Because it was said to already have had a rebuild?? So why rebuildnit again?? But I agree no need for the fake scripted shit
@@fuzzy1dk My god I just watched that bit and it's so badly done as well. It's obviously fake
I've never seen a so called professional rebuild an engine like that .
He's a formula one engineer /mechanic 🤣
Let's hope the editing director took out the work part.
Have not watched any of the old Elvis content yet. Saw the title and said I would give this a watch in anticipation of the new series. I expected to see an ex F1 mechanic show an engine rebuild. What I saw instead was someone do a half-arsed job of throwing some paint onto an engine. With all the old crumbly red paint underneath, the blue will not last long. It was painful to watch. Please, please, please do better in the new series. Elvis is undoubtedly a top mechanic - lets see him do better than this.
Bit like his carb rebuild on the 5gt turbo half arsed as u say not telling me tv pays better
thing is you've got to ask yourself is that what Elvis wanted to do, what mike wanted Elvis to do or what Discovery channel wanted him to do.
It was already built. The paint is fine.
Shouldn't we have seen the cylinder head being removed, valve guides, rings and bearings etc all checked. Carbs looked dirty, so should have been overhauled. The Big Man would have been shaking his head watching this rubbish of a program.
I was thinking a compression check or leak down at least. I'd ask for that.
Top class "rebuild" there lads
So Elvis is handy with a tin of paint. Let’s see him do a chassis change on a TVR.
Ex F1 Mechanic, The Dude is Awesome 😎 Walk in the park.
Well if he does change the chassis on a TVR let's hope he does a better job than Edd did when he scraped chunks of the fresh paint of the new chassis by trying to get the body to fit with a crowbar, that was real amateur hour.
@@MrCapacitator and your technique is?
Never gonna happen on screen ... Preistly is no fabricater in fact all he cando is paint(poorly) and valet... thats it ... no more
Lighten up people it’s just a bit of fun.
Edd China diaries - 7 days - 360 K
Wheeler Dealers - 7 days - 65 K
60 K of them trying to find old WD episodes with Edd.
And WD is blind enough not to realize that it was EDD all the way and not the over rated parts and car sales guy Mike ...I mean does WD ever in the right senses or just smitten by Mike bullying them....Ant Mike is gonna do to you what he did to Edd .......
@@chilligaviar3633 Nah. WD was both of them and the way they interacted with each other. Sadly neither has managed to recreate that partnership.
@@joebloggs4369 Mike ratted out on Edd that's what it's all looking like. Infact Edd is still more a a brand ambassador that the parts guy , but Edd made the show more interesting...Mike was always trying to impress people...like in school ( show off )
@@chilligaviar3633 I think there were issues on both sides, particularly once Attaboy sold the series and they moved to the US. Paul Brackley was the real mechanical genius who did all the behind-the-scene work for Wheeler Dealers in the UK, when Attaboy were doing the shows. All that was lost once it was sold and moved.
@@joebloggs4369 I don't disagree with you and appreciate your reply. But there is more to what triggered Edd to feel the way he did and the parts guys played along....or parts guy played smooth enough so that he may regain what he never had ...
Here in the USA, this engine was used in ‘71 to ‘73 US Pintos in 2.0L form. I had one in a ‘73 Pinto runabout with a 5 speed in 1984-85. I rebuilt it in stock form and it ran like a top. It was a really good and reliable motor in a seriously crappy car. In the USA, we got the “Lima” engine in 1974 as a 2.3L. Very similar engine but also completely different with zero common parts. The 2.0L engine was a great unit and I think better than the Lima, although I build a lot of Lima’s back in the day!
Our family had a couple of Pintos which never exploded. Including the one that got rear ended. The 71 had the original 2.0L engine. Our later Pinto wagon had the 2.3L engine. I never considered that either of these engines would be good for racing as they were so anemic in USA tune. They were dependable, but I hated those two barrel Weber and Holley carbs. They weren't particularly dependable and were really 1.5 barrel carbs as they were really sequential opening. Whenever I see one on a British engine replacing a SU or Stromberg Dual carb set because of Reliability issues with side draft carbs, all I could think was "ah, you ruined it because you don't know how to set up twin carbs!" The 2.0L engine was the better engine but did eat cams if you didn't change the oil regularly. The holes in that oiler tube would get blocked up and goodbye cam.
I did a full rebuild on my 83 Ford ranger 2.3 ltr that truck purrs like a kitten I built it back in 1998 and it's 2022 now and still runs awesome.
Amazing the amount of sailors/soldiers/airmen etc Mike knows who want to pay the asking price for his stuff without seeing it
Are you saying its all staged for tv lol ?....
Quick lick of paint. Right, rebuild done! Never mind that actual “engine” part. Just as well it got painted blue. It will go WAY faster now.
it wasn't even an overhaul. that would require honing and reringing.
Is that an ACME paint product the Coyote would buy for an instand rebuild in a tin lol ?...
Wow, an engine rebuild, amazing stuff
Last year i cleaned out my shed & gave away a 2.1 Pinto built on a 205 block. Burton stage 3 head, Kent FR32 cam, lightened & balanced bottom end. Didn't know they were worth any money!
Wowsers 😮 they would have been skipping away with that. If you have anymore like that in the garage you want taken away I’d be more than happy to assist......
What . Rebuilds an engine??? Painted it and put some bits on it.
I was thinking the same.
Compared to Project Binky this was utter pants
Soo I wasn't the only one thinking "wheres the rebuild"?
@@eldonmiller955 If that is what an F1 engineer considers an engine rebuild then I am staggered. I have never rebuilt an engine but even I could have done a better paint preparation and finish.
@@reggiedixon2 Click bait... report and get this shite off you tube ... Mind you it's a funny game predicting what he will clean next... Brewers got the heritage center next door ... Nuff said
2:41 You should really turn the music volume down when you begin to speak.
The pinto block was used by Cosworth to produce the YB family of turbocharged engines.
These were installed to power the awesome Ford Sierra RS500 touring car racer.
In qualifying trim anything up to 650bhp.
Yes someone else with some knowledge
I don't feel so bad about wall papering the living room and saying i plastered now for some reason 🤣 🤣 🤣
Pintos were available with the German 2.8 V-6 engine from 1975 to 1979. I owned 5 of them. They were fantastic performers and would take huge abuse. Made the Pinto and Mercury Bobcats totally different to drive. I only had 1 Pinto with the 2.3 4 banger.
Watch Graham from Penguin Motors build and Dyno Pinto Motors for race and road with wit, enthusiasm and skill
£2600 for an original painting by ELVIS that is priceless
Yeah pintos were a blast especially if you got rear-ended
Go for a miata then.
The correction by Ford was to have an on board fire extinguisher.
They werwnt bombs. The tanks were rigged to explode in the test video to hurt sales.
@@fireboyisme thats not true kiddo
Well i've seen these in real life and they go that's no joke, only problem is escorts REALLY do get rusty in all the inner guards pretty quick but they do go hard
Brings back the early 90's for me when I done some local racing with a MK2 Escort & chucked in a 2.1 Pinto I got from a scrap yard
Very technical brush work there
Ummm, no. I’ll stick with Edd’s “Workshop Diaries”. Thank you for recommending this shite, though.
Triggered snowflake ALERT
Lol agreed
A pinto is a rarity around here...very popular racing class,...,mini stock....over half the field was pintos screaming around the track
I put a 302 V8 out a 1969 mustang in my last pinto after watching this Im having the stock engine rebuilt and all the performance parts installed on my next one ... I love the inline 4
Those gaskets need no sealer nor grease. They have small tabs which keep them in place and are made from cork.
I've rebuilt dozens of Pinto engines. Blown many up too. We used to buy those for £50 - £100.
Same motor in Australian Cortina's, good luck getting 5 grand for one.
Bless you for recovering or going in on a Pinto. I remember the bodies as more of 2 x 2 coupe, 2 doors only, red painted, maybe with Mustang, not as a 4 door sedan. But, i guess those are unrace-able in the rally you're showing in the history. But, great to see
Old boat anchor of an engine. Cast iron block and head. These were fitted to everything Ford had.
Love the sound of a pinto, reminds me of my kit car
Gordon is a top lad, I need a pinto, gonna ring him tomorrow
I used to build 2.3L Pinto motors for race cars back in the early 80's. The early Fox body Mustangs also had them as an option.
If anyone wants to see a proper rebuild Check out salvage rebuilds channel. Chris has built a Vauxhall engine and it's a work of art
Or just rewind to the classic days of when Edd China was on this show.
@@sblagg527 or just watch Edds new workshop show on YT!!!
I like that low height rocker cover. Good for kit cars, 7's etc where height is a problem.
Elvis has the personality of a rock
I never knew Pinto engines were made into race motors ! 😎
Hey guys
Q) why have you never rescued a Ford cortina TC-TD with EITHER a cylinder or a 6 cylinder engine .
With a 4 speed 4 on the floor transmission.
I had the 2lt overhead cam 4 cylinder with a 4 on the floor transmission and it went like the calipers and with plenty of power in speed and pulling power a great little car ,
So again I ask why haven't you ever done a CORTINA
My first car was a Pinto, and I owned 2 more after that. The car was crap but the engine, the American version, was great. Easy to work in, indestructible, and fun to modify. Heck, I drove one on mune 15 miles with almost no oil, valve cover gasket blew, and it still made it home and tokk next to nothing with basic tools to fix.PS, no idlt didn't blow up, mostly rusted out 😂
The American Pintos and UK Pintos are not related at all - I believe the engine in the American Pinto car was actually a Lima.
Back in the early mid 90’s I use to source American 1.6l and 2.0l for world renowned engine builder Ivey Racing Engines in Portland Oregon. All the engines I would take them the blocks and heads were cast in Germany. The motors had to come from only 1970 to 72 bodies. In that time I must have sold them 40 or 50 of them.
Is that the 2.0L SOHC engine? I have a 1973 Pinto (in the U.S.) with that engine. I rebuilt it about 20 years ago, and it's starting to get tired. It has one overbore left, but I can't find hardly any parts for it. There are slight differences between it and that engine. The alternator is on the left side on mine, and the breather cap on the cam cover is different. Mine has a single 2 barrel Weber carb. Maybe just the differences because the Pinto was never sold in the UK, and the engine was set up for another car. Anybody know where to find parts for this engine?
Here in the US, we consider the Chrysler 4.0L straight 6 a great motor, that was replaced by the shite 3.8 then the 3.6 Pentastar. I think you blokes mainly got the 2.5L and some form of diesel in the Jeep Wranglers that were available there, considering your outrageous fuel prices, what we paid per gallon you were paying per litre
My mom drove a pinto, the day after the 20/20 show my grandfather bought her a new car
Why not for the sake of a car show, rebuild the engine.
Just Paint?
C'mon Miky , Ya know Edd got you to where you are ....so sell it to the producers like you sell cars buddy. And hey guys dont they and badger Edd on this ...
Those lima engines go for cheap as hell in the U.S. Can buy a high mileage running stock 2.3 for 75 bucks.
Yuuuuup!!
I've had 2 of them I guess now; one with a turbo in a Mercury Cougar XR-7, and the 1.6L version in a Ford EXP ! :-D
That's not a Lima engine !
@@jasoneldridge4738 there are differences. But despite some of the Europeans thinking parts arent interchangeable and they are totally different, well they truly arent. Prototype heads for the pinto have been fit to the lima. Cossie heads have been fit to the lima. Now the lima does have a much stronger block. And a much stronger aftermarket. But the straight fact is they are similar enough for parts interchangeability.
Send container loads to Europe/UK and pick up $750 a unit easily.
Adding some value by slapping some paint on it......🤦🏼♂️
Oh dear what a pair
@2:44 left turn indicator on and then you turned right, grandpa! :-)
Yeah, more at 2:40
2:15 Hold out yer 'and! 🤝
Hi, big fan of the show, any chance Mike you guys could restore an Australian car, I think you have what you call a Vauxhall Monaro, which is Holden Monaro here down under and a Pontiav GTO in the states. Here's hoping.
where do i watch the new series
Generally a great show, but there's just too many instances of implied\staged tension creeping in, and it's beginning to grate.
Please consider not doing it.
I love the detail and step by step view of a car or engine being repaired or rebuilt.
Yes, the acting was as wooden as HMS Trafalgars bodywork.
Ahhhhhh ha ha ha ha
My elder brother bought one of the early 2.0 litre Cortina's first released in Australia and it was a rocket. I know it had one two barrel carby and I'd never ridden in a four like it. Being the first of the 2.0 Litre Cortina's it had the Pinto engine but unfortunately the Aussie built version could not compare.
I don't know what you mean by this. Unless it was the low compression version it was the same as the European version except for air filter (and in the case of the European RS2000, a twin branch rather than a single branch exhaust manifold).
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Simply put, the Aussie version couldn't blow smoke up the arse of the Pinto.
Did you get the seller to load it in the trunk?
That horrible brush paint job was making me physically cringe while watching this.....
Unless you have the time and money to worry about special products and techniques, brushing paint on an engine is the way to go. The bristles push the paint into the porous cast iron rather than just lay it over top
Wow , I remember paying fifty to a ton for two litre pintos early nineties lolz , he did get the carbs so bonus
When is wheeler dealers back in the UK filming
Now and also filming dream cars as well
Ford blue is darker than the one used here
Nah
Wait, what!? So, Lewis is working in the Med as a sailor and needs to book a specific ship-to-shore call to discuss an engine for his MKI Escort and does not haggle on the asking price, even though it is unseen by him, or any of his friends or family...
Another _crew_ member _buying_ from WD?!
Very nice.
Funny the definition of English Pinto and American Pinto are 2 completely different things.
@@TheAndy1268 Any mention of Pinto in America will bring a negative connotation. Ford built a good looking low quality car that you could hear rust. If you read the comments I am willing to bet someone will talk about them blowing up when rear ended. The Pinto was a low point in the American car industry why my comment was what it said. It is interesting that a Pinto derivative engine in England is a huge deal .
@@stern12akachris32 Good looking? I'm not sure it was good anything. That's why the Mustang II was so ugly.
Can't hear sod all because of the background Noise/Music!
Same here wherever music has been pasted over Mike's voice. Note I'm listening in stereo. This problem seems to be common those days, already fixed by "Time Team Classics" for those who know...
Wheeler Dealers please don't forget stereo 2.0 users, a lot of excellent ampli's are still alive !
"Thank you very much"!
My dad bought us teenagers a Ford Pinto. The engine I believe was European. It had plenty of go and on top of that literally sipped gas. It was getting more then thirty miles to the gallon. We ran it all month putting a couple of bucks in it for gas. Lol
My friends father bought him a Vega. He thought that would top our Pinto. lmao
Two brand new 40s on a manifold cost less than what he says the used pile of parts he says are carbs. The Pinto was the last choice of motorsport; used in a few RS2000 touring cars. The twin cam series were the motorsport choice. Of the Pintos, the 205 injection blocks were the most sought after. No mention of that so I guess it's a £50 200 block.
"200" block (Cosworth 4WD) is actually even more sought after than 205 block (Cosworth 2WD. I believe you meant "20" block which is older and thinner casting version from 200/205 blocks.
I have one this motor 2.3 weber complete and automátic Tráns in my garage.
Notorious for eating cams the spray bars use to block very uneconomical as well especially with the auto chokes
Works Escorts NEVER used the Pinto engine, they only ever use the Homologated Lotus Twin Cam or the Cosworth BDA. Pintos were only ever used at clubman level in racing. And Pinto engines were only painted blue until 1976, after that they were all black.
For me Elvis makes the show again.
Craigslist rebuild, if you know you know 😜
For a video with pinto in the title, I'm pretty sure there was not a single pinto in the video. 2.3l is probably one of the most popular ford engines for many different vehicles. They were even showing escorts while saying pinto...
Yes, they were weren't they. A pinto escort, whooda thunk it?
Mates dad used to scrap escorts by the dozen when he had a breakers yard. How times change 😬😬
That Carplan engine paint is about £7 for a tin, add a paintbrush and a smear of grease for the gasket and it’s well worth £2600.
At least refurbish the carbs.
Many moons ago, I had two of these in a TE Cortina GL and TF Cortina S, that's a MK5 and a MK6 in Brexitstan #JC.
In Australia, in these last two cortinas the engines were painted black. What a good thing they were. The TE was my first car, it got on its first birthday. Driven hard but looked after over four years it never let me down .Handling was rubbish/dangerous, always trying to pass itself...kept you on your toes though. The TF was a much nicer steer in every respect, way more refined. A nice original TF Ghia with 68 000 kms made $28 000 at auction in Sydney mid last year. Would love to re-own all my old cars.
So the red paint was a primer?...
Taken to talking 'just' off camera, LOOK INTO THE BLOODY LENS! Drives me insane. Who on earth thinks it adds anything.
What you didn't tell us is what engine is it. Is it the British 1.6 Ltr. Lister engine or the German 2.0 Ltr.
Lubię takie odcinki 😁
I would imagine Elvis has about as much chance of rebuilding that engine properly, as Boris has of running the country.................
I don't understand why these engines are so expensive the "Pinto" was in pretty much every other Cortina, Capri, Transit Van, Granada and Sierra. Yet another example of making "classics" out of stuff which is definitely not classic. Before we know it the crappy old Ford CVH engine will be a "motorsport classic"
You know what you are doing.
What I object to is that the "classic industry" has seen an opportunity to to make the crap and junk that nobody aspired to drive when it was new into "modern classics". This "industry" has realised there is an audience out there funded by final salary pension pots that are fighting each other to buy "the car they wanted when in their 20's" but now the desirable models are too expensive they settle for the poverty trim versions. They soon realise that they paid way over the odds for something like a wheezy 1.3 Capri that is as crap to drive now as it was then. It's no wonder the same cars end up back at the auctioneers 2yrs later. You only have to watch the many TV programmes where the presenters orgasm over some rusty old rubbish fuelling the market.
The Pinto is popular in historic rally's and short oval/hot rod racing. The Pinto was the father of the Cossie YB so it deserves it's status. Most Cortina's, Sierra's and Transits have been scrapped thus scarcity. The CVH on the other hand was a boy racer's cult classic in the RS Turbo, I think these will one day become sort after as well but nowhere near the Pinto
use Hylomar Blue, not grease, to hold down gaskets. It's non-curing sealant.
Get a mechanic who knows what he's doing. Maybe Edd China?
The guy was an F1 mechanic for McLaren when Lewis Hamilton won his first world title, no disrespect to Edd, who I am a big fan of, but he wasn't. Two differing approaches to the same idea, neither are wrong.
@@calibrazxr750 McLaren F1 team used Hylomar Blue
@@baitse7676 I am not saying that they do or don't, I am saying that his mechanical knowledge is sufficiently high enough to work on some of the most highly complex, state of the art engines and if he says he uses grease for the reasons stated, I would expect anyone who wishes to pour scorn on those reasons to have at least the same, if not better, mechanical experience.
@@calibrazxr750 He Changed wheels part time for McLaren ... The guy is a FAKE... Arse and elbow spring to mind when did a so called Highly skilled mechanic you know do such a crap non job
@@barrydavies998 when he knows that nothing is required maybe. If it ain't broke and all that.
Most of the footage was of BDA powered Escorts! 1500 for a Pinto! I suppose in a world where SR20s fetch 4k.....
Yep, Twin Cams and BDAs (RS1600)
In the United States, the Pintos were famous for just blowing up.
Who is this elvis guy?,here in australia we are getting the episodes with ant (once a week) so did ant jump ship or was he pushed?,although i do like ant i miss edd china,judging by the comments ive seen edd has a huuuuge following 😁😁 & most dont like mike brewer 😂😂
Bought for £1500 minus time And fuel picking it up his mechanic getting it prepped gaskets belts etc ..he's lucky if he breaks even ..
The pinto engine didn't come out till the 1970s the video in the beginning was a escort with twin cam lotus engine
Rebuilding a Pinto engine makes as much sense as trying to reconstitute a steak dinner from the contents of a city sewer.
You what 1500 bar for a 2litre pinto Ive got 6 running ones lol
Wait…. Did I just see that guy just paint over old paint on a cast iron engine block? What if there was rust under the red paint? Weird but maybe I’m wrong?
Do Mike is now back in UK
With Elvis as side kick?
He give up California ?
Actually those engines were tough 2.0 and 2.3 I had 71 74
Wow, Edd is looking good these days.
He sure is,his new channel is great.
Beautifully simple engine, ~$3k USD for that engine was a great deal.
How? I can get then 100 each
The GM "IRON DUKE" is NEXT!
Some folks live to haggle, but I hate it. I'll do it, but I don't really see the point. The seller knows what he'll accept, the buyer knows what he is willing to pay. Yet when I sell stuff I have to overprice it because I know that the buyer will want to haggle.
Christ i am in the money have 3 of them 👍
ROCKER AND CARBS, HE CALLS THAT A ENGINE IN BITS. DERAM ON GUYS