Pinto Car Club of America

I have a 1973 Pinto that iam droping a 2.3 turbo motor and T-5 trans into. (T-Bird Motor) I took the turbo off and i need to replace the intake so i can put on my Holly 350. The turbo 2.3 motor has a "D" port head, what manifold do i use to do this? If you have one? Let me know.

you should try to find a d port intake to go with the head or buy the adapter plate so you can use the lower plenum of fuel injected setup it would flow better than the dport intake
you can get a adapter plate from RacerWalsh for around $115-120 bucks I think? but the dport intake would be just fine. you can find a dport intake intake from a later model 2.3
I just changed mine over to dport and I can tell a big difference I got my head from an 87 mustang motor and I got my intake from Ithink a 83-85 Ranger motor?

I have a few intakes too!!

I have the stock 88 turbo intake. So i just an adapter? Cool! Thanks! I think this car may be a Pinto Sprint? It's silver/green with black stripes at the bottom, it's also pianted black in the back from the factory. I just got the 8'' rearend in it. It come from a 78 Pinto with a V6. It was missing the 3rd member, i ended up with one from a 71 Torino with 3.25 gears. The frist thing that messed me up was the 71 Torino's 3rd member dosn't have a fill plug on it and the 78 Pinto's 8" housing dosn't have one. So i added one into the back of the Pinto's housing. I also have a 3rd member from a 75 Torino and it has the fill plug in it. The bad part is that the 71 has 2.79 gears in it. Iam into this car big time, top to bottom - inside and out! This is Pinto number 11 for me in the past 25 years. I got away from them for the last 15 years and have been kicking my self ever since! Pinto's are hard to find around here in Bakersfield Ca. and so-cal due to all the mini stock racing going on around here for the last 25 years. Body parts are very hard to come by. Back in the early 80's there was a Pinto on every block! Shoot, Bakersfield is a very big town and i would bet that theres not more then 3 to 5 still on the street here anymore thanks to all of the sheet metal killers around here! I got this 73 along with a 71 as a pair for $450. I pulled a dumb - dumb move and sold the 71 for $400. and ended up with the 73 for $50. less the motor. And, Ya i done kicked myself for saleing the 71! Anyways, iam doing a cam, header and carb on the 2.3 along with the T-Bird T-5 trans (low frist gear) and the 3.25 geared 8'' rearend. No heater box and no back seat, just light clean and simple. It should run pretty good? Thank's