Ford Pinto engine

The Ford Pinto engine, short Pinto motor, is a common, especially in the English language term for a four-cylinder petrol engine was used in many cars, the Ford Motor Company and is named after the Ford Pinto, for which it was originally developed, named. In Europe, it was built in 1970 for the first time in the Mk.3 Ford Cortina and replaced the Ford Essex V4 engine. At Ford the Pinto engine was the official name of OHC ( overhead camshaft ).

The engine was available with 1.3, 1.6, 1.8, 2.0 and 2.3 liters of displacement, the 2.3 -liter engine, Lima OHC known as, was offered exclusively in North and South America. For the North American market of Lima OHC was also available with a turbocharger.

Use Pinto engine in Europe:

Use Pinto engine Americas:

An enlarged to 2.5 liters engine capacity version of the Lima OHC cylinder heads with improved fuel efficiency and emission reduction was built between 1998 and 2001 in the Ford Ranger and Mazda B 2500 for North America.

Development

The engine block is also the basis for the Cosworth 16v engine. The English company Cosworth developed in-house a four-valve head for the engine block of the OHC. This cylinder head was acquired by Ford in terms of motor sport activities in the series production. The engine offered solely with turbocharged Sierra RS Cosworth was offered, Sierra RS500 Cosworth and Escort RS. With this engine, Ford achieved numerous national and international race wins and championships in touring car racing and rallying. The greatest successes were the start-finish victory in the 24 -hour race at the Nürburgring 1987 Klaus Ludwig, Klaus Niedzwiedz and Steve Soper and first place in the drivers' championship, the DTM in 1988, also for Klaus Ludwig.

Of importance in the Pinto engine was that it was the first Ford engine with belt- driven overhead camshaft. Due to stricter emission laws in the late 1980s the DOHC was developed and first offered in parallel. Unusually was for an engine with two overhead camshafts that this only had one exhaust valve per cylinder, an intake and. The later offered DOHC 16V, which was built in the Escort RS2000 16V, among others, has little in common with the original OHC. The DOHC 16V has a separate engine block and instead of belts, a timing chain. The 2.3-liter DOHC 16V variant is still in use Ford Transit.

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