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General Car Chat / Re: Cam belt query.
« on: 23 August 2025, 15:33:28 »1.8 is okay if cambelt goes, how do I know
.. and 1.3 Pinto is barely powerful enough to move its' own weight let alone the car as well. Box of swan vestas and a can of petrol.
which is why they weren't sold here. Instead, you could buy a mk3 Capri, mk5 Cortina - and I believe an early Sierra, but I've never seen one - with a 1300 crossflow, although virtually nobody did.
Much the same applies to a 2.0l Cologne(which we also didn't get) that does a number of things better than a 2.0l Pinto. Unfortunately those are all things you don't want: drink fuel; weight the front of the car down; has more, serious failure modes; costs more to maintain.
1.8 Pintos are barely more poweful than 1.6s, are fractionally more economical(due to a particularly crap carb), and I've only ever seen them in Sierras.
I quite liked that though to be honest, as I could park it anywhere and nobody paid attention to it. 
