Fevre

Took my Formula out for a cruise after work and a guy with a hopped up Pinto got next to me and reved his engine. I am pretty sure you can stuff a 350 in those things , sounded like a small block, so I wasn't sure what his intentions where but I am smart enough not to mess with the unknown. So I cranked up the Blackfoot, let out a :lol: and thought to myself "Dude, your in a Pinto!", don't think he like me laughing at him. :)


[Modified by Fevre, 10:35 PM 4/23/2003]

Budman68

:lolg: :lolg: :lolg: :lolg: :lolg: :lolg: Pinto...

isosceles

I had a student that still has a custom Pinto with a far-from-stock 351 in it. He has some wild custom paint job on it. He's no young punk either, looks old enough to know what he's doing. It sounds nasty, I wouldn't mess with it until I get a AR motor. :eek:

A C

There are a lot of quick Pinto drag cars out there. They are drag cars because they are easy to swap engines into and they are cheap. It might beat you in a drag race. You might beat it though if you were in a 350 Vega, would you rather have the Vega? :lol:

AC

RMVette

:iagree: I've seen Pinto's with 351's under the hood. Not sure how they'd handle in a corner but straight line I'd stay away. Too much hp/lb! But then again, it would be interesting! :cheers:

74FLCONV

:iagree:

Doesn't matter if he has a twin-turbo hemi 32 valve turbine running on jet-fuel (with a 671)...it's still a Pinto!

D. Ocean
Miami, FLA

MotorHead

A friend of mine out West had a Pinto with a 350ci in it. Real POS but I wouldn't race it he could smoke the tires in 4 gears. :eek:

Rockn-Roll

OK, don't laugh...I have a Pinto...OK now you can laugh :rofl:

The fact is that Pinto's CAN be fitted with a 302, but it requires some welding for motor mounts. Pinto wagons came with an optional 302 with a towing package with the welding done at the factory. It would require a lot of work to make a Pinto frame handle a 351 without busting welds or just turning the car into a three wheeler. In my opinion anyone hopping up a Pinto would still be driving a Pinto, so I don't see any reason to try and improve a Pinto with a bigger engine.

Black Snowman

I remember about a decade ago spotting a tubbed pinto wagon with a safety orange paint job with green flames, a massive hood scoop, what looked like dual 4" exhaust, full cage, a wheelie bar, an arester shoot, and a liscence plate.

By the way it sat the tubs went to the roof of the car. The windows were painted over so I couldn't be sure. You could barely make out the bottom of the rims in the wheel wells. Just enough room to get an arm in there to unbolt them.

I have no idea what it was doing on the street. Other than of course being dead under a highway overpass.

:lolg:

442olds

I ran a hopped up pinto once in my cutlass (nothing special 350 chevy 350 trans). Anyway this guy thought he had something with the light little car and I had 4 people in my car. I kicked his butt, then he did a ricer flyby almost. I don't think the term ricer was even concieved back then. The look on his face was priceless as he passed me.

gerry c

Pinto wagons NEVER had an option for any V-8.

A C

What was the tongue weight of that Pinto rear bumper?

:confused:

AC

:D

rainman69

I saw a Cooper Mini with a blown 468 BBC once. It broke the tires loose idling in reverse as he was trying to back it into a parking space at a "supermarket car show."

2100 lbs with driver, 9 second 1/4 mi.

Crash Dummy

I've been to the drag strip 100+ times and can't remember one single hopped up V-8 Pinto. Not only are short wheel based cars squirrely on the top end, but even the guys out of the styx of Mississippi never even came up with concoctions like that. I did run upon one at Gulfport that was a trip. One of those back woods boys trailered in a Datsun 280Z with slicks and a hood scoop. Maybe a 350? Nope! He pulled off the front end and there was a hopped up Mazda rotary engine that was dwarfed under that scoop. The track let him do a single with that high revving whiner with a 5 speed. Ran 10.90's. It was a blast listening to him peg that rotary engine and shift it.

And the crowd roared! :cheers:

CDaniel525

Here is my dad's pinto....runs low 12's w/o nitrous and mid-high 10's before the nitrous was taken off

tshort

Last time I was at the 1/8th mile track on I-10 just west of Houston I saw 2 or 3 pintos with massive rear tires, wheelie bar, the whole works. I guess it must have been bean day. :lolg:

standup

I remember the days when you could rear end a Pinto and it would EXPLODE.....boy, those were the days.....

Fevre

What engine does he have in it? The power to weight ratio would kick to stuffing out of my Formula. I just had to laugh cuz he had a serious look on his face and the car wasn't nearly as nicely done as your fathers.

Fevre

hudman

I knew a guy in high school with a 351 Pinto. It had an L88 hood on it!

Anyway, the lack of traction on that thing was gross. Had a standard rear end (non posi,non limited slip) and it would spin 1 tire for as long as he wanted.

At a party one night he did a 3 block long burnout and could have gone much further.

Unbeleivable.