nismo.capri Posted June 22, 2010 Share Posted June 22, 2010 Hi All I've got a '71 MK 1 Escort Van. I've had it for amost 2 years and I'm pulling the mighty 1100cc and putting in a Pinto 2L as I'm sick of being over taken by old ladies and cyclists. I have the bottom end built it's pretty much a sandard 205 with 1mm over pistons, shot peened rods, everything balenced and the deck was skimed .006 to clean it up (Yes I know I should have zero decked it). Bore 92.25mm Stroke 76.9mm Deck 0.59mm Gasket Dia 93.25 Gasket thickness 1.4mm The current numbers give me 9.61:1 CR. 1mm felpro gasket: 10.01:1 .75mm copper gasket: 10.29:1 .50mm copper gasket: 10.57:1 .25mm copper gasket: 10.88:1 We put the head on my friends flow bench (Superflow 110) and got some good numbers. It's down on the last head I did (only by about 2-5% depending on the lift point) but that had the valve guides shortened and knife edged 45.5mm wasted stem inlet valves and less epoxy in the port. Lift mm / stock / mine - CFM @28" 1.27 / 21.8 / 25.4 2.54 / 47.8 / 53.7 5.08 / 107.6 / 112.0 7.62 / 141.5 / 150.1 10.16 / 151.9 / 174.8 12.70 / 157.2 / 185.8 I was well pleased with the results but the velocity was higher than Max would have liked to see at 260 fps. I asked him if I should lower the tops of the epoxy speed humps he sad no because I'm building a daily driver that isn't going to see high rpms often and the higher velocity will help at low rpm. I'm going to run the throttle body injection set up from a Falcon that I ran on my last Van so it will still look stockish. BF134: 1000-6250 rpms, 11.7mm lift, 266 duration, full lift 110° FR34: 1000-6250 rpms, 12.7mm lift, 263° duration, full lift 110° FR32: 2500-7000 rpms, 11.22mm lift, 285° duration, full lift 108° I'm told that the BF134 doesn't stress the valve train as much but I'd be loosing flow. I'm liking the FR34. With the common plenum manifold I think running a cam with a lot of duration isn't a good idea because of the reversion. Any thoughts on what cam, how much CR and running a thin copper head gasket with out o-ringing block? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gaz Posted June 23, 2010 Share Posted June 23, 2010 Wasnt sure if you posted in the wrong section or what.. So I moved thread to project build and started you a project discussions thread. See here. viewtopic.php?f=18&t=23213 Gaz Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
nismo.capri Posted June 23, 2010 Author Share Posted June 23, 2010 Wasnt sure if you posted in the wrong section or what.. So I moved thread to project build and started you a project discussions thread.See here. viewtopic.php?f=18&t=23213 Gaz Sorry Gaz I didn't think people were allowed to post on others threads in the project build forum but obviously not Have you ever used a copper head gasket on a pinto? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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