Miata Mailing List: March 1997, Message #144
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Subject: Re: pinto

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Actually the 1600cc and the 2.3L overhead cam engine had trouble with cams.

Apparently they were not heat treated correctly, and the cam lobes wore

off... but that is another story.



BTW, a standard 1600cc lotus engine head will fit a festiva very nicely.

Bolts on without any mods... A new pocket rocket!  It surprized a few people

I know at stoplights.... 911 included...





At 08:34 AM 3/2/97 -0500, you wrote:

>I don't think the engine itself was ever part of the problem with the

>Pinto.  Gas tanks and other underhood items were the main flaw!!!

>

>D. Scott MacKenzie wrote:

>> 

>> It is strange, but the basic engine 1600 cc pinto is the basis for all lotus

>> engines... just add the twin cam head.. and you have a lotus engine..

>> 

>> I had a wrecked lotus... friend had a pinto... I did the deed... I

apoligize...

>> 

>> At 03:19 PM 2/28/97 -0500, you wrote:

>> >At 3:07 PM -0500 2/28/97, mx5@juno.com wrote:

>> >>On Fri, 28 Feb 1997 13:49:35 -0500 Tom Reynolds 

>> >>writes:

>> >>>Actually, it was the Ford Pinto.  Mine *was* orange.

>> >

>> >I had a yellow one, put over 150thousand miles, just change the oil, never

>> >a problem

>> >

>> >eddie

>> >

>> >Team Apex

>> >Team Begi

>> >Mass Miata

>> >

>> >

>> >

>> >

>> >

>> 

>> "I believe that intelligence behaves like matter and energy - there is a

>> fixed quantity in the universe that can not be created or destroyed.

>> Unfortunately, the population is growing."

>> 

>> http://www.usmo.com/~kb0fhp

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"I believe that intelligence behaves like matter and energy - there is a

fixed quantity in the universe that can not be created or destroyed.

Unfortunately, the population is growing."



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