you know Pinto Carbs
- Thread starter FrankBoss
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Beats me, man!
Pintos ran a Cortina/Taunus spec engine with a Weber DGV 36/32 with 27/26 venturis. This means the venturis are 1.0625" and 1.023", but the throttles are 1.417" and 1.26". The carb will flow 227 cfm at 1.5" hg. Contrary to popular lore, the 280 and 320 versions are in fact just cfms at different flow rates.
There is a 180 cfm version for Chryslers with VW-Audi based 1700 cc engines use in Plymouth Horizons or Omini's, and there was a bunch of Escort and Vega and K-car versions made under licence by Holley and Carter to Weber specs. I haven't a hope of telling you what they were, because Detriot got right into the econo-car thing when the Iranians and OPEC started turning the screws off on the oil from 1973 to 1981.
Ford had there DGV's supplied by
Bressel,
Weber,
then Holley.
Heck and maybe even Autolite used to supply them for the US spec engines.
The early Pinto 2.0 has either a German or English made OHC Pinto engine which was blue in color.
There was a speight of under bonnet fires due to the lousy brass push on fittings which would drop out in service. Additionally, some had no clamps on the fuel lines. Ford fixed these problems with a service recall, and I'd say that may explain the Autolite tag.
Pintos ran a Cortina/Taunus spec engine with a Weber DGV 36/32 with 27/26 venturis. This means the venturis are 1.0625" and 1.023", but the throttles are 1.417" and 1.26". The carb will flow 227 cfm at 1.5" hg. Contrary to popular lore, the 280 and 320 versions are in fact just cfms at different flow rates.
There is a 180 cfm version for Chryslers with VW-Audi based 1700 cc engines use in Plymouth Horizons or Omini's, and there was a bunch of Escort and Vega and K-car versions made under licence by Holley and Carter to Weber specs. I haven't a hope of telling you what they were, because Detriot got right into the econo-car thing when the Iranians and OPEC started turning the screws off on the oil from 1973 to 1981.
Ford had there DGV's supplied by
Bressel,
Weber,
then Holley.
Heck and maybe even Autolite used to supply them for the US spec engines.
The early Pinto 2.0 has either a German or English made OHC Pinto engine which was blue in color.
There was a speight of under bonnet fires due to the lousy brass push on fittings which would drop out in service. Additionally, some had no clamps on the fuel lines. Ford fixed these problems with a service recall, and I'd say that may explain the Autolite tag.
FrankBoss
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I kept the carb because I never seen the autolite ebossment on one before. I might use it on my 200 but I thought the venturies #'s were smaller than the 2.3L version I'm use too.
the trottle lever is a bolt on not welded like most holley/webbers. But I recall the Vega carb has bolt on levers as well...making the addapting more simple.
thanks for the info
Frank
the trottle lever is a bolt on not welded like most holley/webbers. But I recall the Vega carb has bolt on levers as well...making the addapting more simple.
thanks for the info
Frank
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xtaxi":342jo3g1 said:
That would be accurate.
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That's the same carb I had on my old Merc Capri. It's the H/W, built for Autolite/FoMoCo. It's real tunable, too, with an extra air bleed jet if you want to tinker.
I ought to run the 200 just as is! The 140 engine I had produced 96 HP where the 200 is 88HP. The 140 torque was only 121 ft-lbs, where the 200 rocks at 150+ ft-lbs. If I had one of those today, I'd probably be out in the garage, trying to make an air cleaner for it...the Capri one will fit under a Fairmont hood, but the flapper valve on most of them is the opposite "polarity" of the Fairmont's vacuum piping, so some change is needed to get back the warm air pickup system.
I ought to run the 200 just as is! The 140 engine I had produced 96 HP where the 200 is 88HP. The 140 torque was only 121 ft-lbs, where the 200 rocks at 150+ ft-lbs. If I had one of those today, I'd probably be out in the garage, trying to make an air cleaner for it...the Capri one will fit under a Fairmont hood, but the flapper valve on most of them is the opposite "polarity" of the Fairmont's vacuum piping, so some change is needed to get back the warm air pickup system.
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