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what type of head is on my pinto????
« on: August 06, 2009, 12:56:37 PM »
i have a 1980 ford pinto runabout with the stock 2.3l. and im buying a new head for it. i called advanced auto parts and they had a lot of different heads...which one do i need to get?


will a roller cam out of a new ford ranger work in the d-shaped ported head????

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Re: what type of head is on my pinto????
« Reply #1 on: August 06, 2009, 01:19:58 PM »
that should be an oval port head with a d-shaped combustion chamber. although if you used a later d-port n/a head with the heart shaped combustion chamber it would slightly up  the compression and give you a little more bottom end torque. the later heads were drilled for both bolt patterns on the intake side of the headand the early ones werent. the difference in the pattern is on intake port 1, the top left intake mount point on the head will have 2 drilled and tapped holes on the later head. your origonal head should only have one drilled and tapped hole there.
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Re: what type of head is on my pinto????
« Reply #2 on: August 06, 2009, 11:01:00 PM »


will a roller cam out of a new ford ranger work in the d-shaped ported head????
Yes. And good info on the heads Pinturbo75.
If you don't have time to do it right, when will you have time to do it over?