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Gotta have a hoooge engine surely?

What about this.....erm two filler caps?
 
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Went back to that escort. Its a right mottley mix up. 1987shell, hand fabricated chassis and a 5l pinto engine! Says its brothers and wants to sell it!
 
Its a clever barsteward phone and I can't figure how to turn pics.have to hold the phone on its side to take pics........otherwise I look a cock apparently
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Went back to that escort. Its a right mottley mix up. 1987shell, hand fabricated chassis and a 5l pinto engine! Says its brothers and wants to sell it!
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two replies in one go here chunky monkey,
1st.. i gotta say It..rotate!..(spin) ..(only joking)

2nd, as a one time "pinto" race engine builder of repute,
I only used the 4 cylinder pinto, (single overhead cam)
as used in back in the days cortinas, sierras, transits even,
but just the 2 litre versions.
did play with some bits out of the american pinto 2.3 litre once though,
made an awesome 2 & half litre race motor, but was unrealiable..
You can build the fastest short circuit race motor In the world,
but If It cant do the 20 or 30 or 50 lap finals to the chequer flag,
Its a godam boat anchor!..:doh:
 
Saw that at Manby a few years ago. Hopelessly stuck in the Mud Run.. Was a completely useless heap of ****e. Enginering is good. Steering is hydraulic. but ****e offroad.

how did they get away with that then? on a road car(vehicle) there MUST be a mechanical linkage between the wheels and the steering wheel.
hence why no car has hydraulic steering. if it fails it fails and at speed would kill!

tractors have fully hydraulic steering but there is a speed limit on what they can do on the road (which for all tractors bar the fastrack is actually 20 even though most tractors easily do 40 nowadays) as theyre unsuspended and dont have proper steering.
 

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