As some of you may remember I reassembled the exhaust system in July 2015 with the original 72 2.0 exhaust manifold, to get the show back on the road as soon as possible.
This manifold already was broken and had a bad weld put on top of the crack, and that weld has jumped off since.
The much better Scorpio Pinto manifold presented a problem because it has a two pipe outlet (good), but they are side by side (not good).
Now I bought myself another piece of vintage cast iron, an Escort RS2000 manifold. I just had to have it because it has “RS” on it, all other reasons are just complementary. The original double downpipes came with it.
This seems to have been a reasonable piece in its day, as it was said to improve the performance of the 2.0 by almost 10%.
I don’t know if it will be better flowing than the 85 Scorpio piece, but at least it has the two pipe outlet vertically, which gives me a better chance of it fitting in the Pinto.
I don’t know yet if it will fit at all, I’ll report on that later, but for now, I just wanted to entertain you guys with some more exotic Euro factory tuning parts for the 2.0.
Also a big bore version of this manifold was produced, only available as a racing part I understand, I included an image of that one as well.