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Aaah Begorrah b'Jeeezus! Would ya like some tarmacin' done?

lovin the scoop, looks like its been made from a cornflakes box, and the gear knob, mmmmm yes please! is it me or does there seem to be oil splashed around the engine bay especially near the top of the grill???

Bailey wrote:lovin the scoop, looks like its been made from a cornflakes box, and the gear knob, mmmmm yes please! is it me or does there seem to be oil splashed around the engine bay especially near the top of the grill???

WTF??? looks like its exploded from the rad, lol
wot a peach that is

With a bl**dy type-9 too. 'tard.

So, a Pinto is more powerful and reliable than a 115 bhp M43 is it? It wouldn't be quite so laughable if it wasn't a '97 car which still has a value.

I'd give £50 for that tops. It's ruined.

bettter than an m50....

Perhaps they like the classic sound of clattery Pinto camshafts. A neighbour of mine with a Cortina 2.0 Ghia left his to rattle and smoke away for years, and rarely washed the car (mind you, it was a hideous pea-green colour). Come to think of it, he rarely bothered to tax it either

320Touring wrote:bettter than an m50....

M50s better than M20 especially 2l

That model bmw has become a real chav / scrot car in Ireland. Tinted windows etc etc... But that one is in Northern Ireland..... a colony of the UK so it's not a real Irish car.

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Aaah Begorrah b'Jeeezus! Would ya like some tarmacin' done?

Well the owner's from Newry so technically he's from th U.K...

what the fuck is going on with the gearstick?

It's wilting

It's wilting

quality!! lol

The dash looks alright......But that gear stick

Wonder how many pints of Guinness it took for them to come up with that conversion?

nasty very very nasty.

Yuk, what a piece of turd.
Where's Pacerpete when you need a quality description of something?
What muppet put a F**d lump into a BMW? Is he a f***ing retard? It may only be an E36, but even so...

I know Newry very well (Yup, as above technically all yours UK guys, not really Irish - begorrah bejesus etc etc!), and believe me in Newry this car really is one of the better ones

Brian28 wrote:I know Newry very well (Yup, as above technically all yours UK guys, not really Irish - begorrah bejesus etc etc!), and believe me in Newry this car really is one of the better ones

HA HA HA I ACTUALLY FELL OFF MY CHAIR BACKWARDS LAFFIN THEN, ouch

Brian28 wrote:....and believe me in Newry this car really is one of the better ones

Still got a bl@@dy F**d lump in it. What possessed him? Damn, the Guinness must be good over there... If it had been a Cossy lump, different story, but a 2 ltr Pinto???? And that gearstick needs burning...

320iSE wrote:Wonder how many pints of Guinness it took for them to come up with that conversion?

what a f**king disaster

Why ?

i might do that convertion on my coupe and replace the 2.5 24v lump in it now. i doubt it would be as economical with a waste lump of cast poo under the bonnet. lol and the reserve not met message is brill. i would love to see it go down the strip i reakon it would do it once lol does anyone know wht it acctually went for?

i was just saying to my friend the other day how i will never look at another ford. after taking my wheel off a bm and looking at how rusty the bottom ball joint and steering arm nut was, looking at it, taking a deep breath and then proceeded to wipe the rust off as it flaked away by poking it. then once i got a ring spanner on there it un-done like brand new. now if it were the same condition on a ford i wouldnt of stood a chance getting it un-done.

How about an E36 powered Cortina?

if your going to spend the money like that, you might aswell do up the pinto or the xflow. family friend now has 11.6 something in his mk1 escort with a uk pinto.

tonyppe wrote:if your going to spend the money like that, you might aswell do up the pinto or the xflow. family friend now has 11.6 something in his mk1 escort with a uk pinto.

Pinto is a complete shitter of an engine only good thing bout it is a 205 block same as cosworth, other than that its an 8v piece of S**t!

I reckon they just hit an old sierra really hard up the arse and decided to run with it.
F*cking disgrace

beem wrote:

tonyppe wrote:if your going to spend the money like that, you might aswell do up the pinto or the xflow. family friend now has 11.6 something in his mk1 escort with a uk pinto.

Pinto is a complete shitter of an engine only good thing bout it is a 205 block same as cosworth, other than that its an 8v piece of S**t!

Not so! 205 n/a block was the Sierra 2.0iS and Granada 2.0i and is actually different to the 205 Cosworth block. All the same sort of Pinto wrongness at the end of the day tho.

Andyboy wrote:

beem wrote:

tonyppe wrote:if your going to spend the money like that, you might aswell do up the pinto or the xflow. family friend now has 11.6 something in his mk1 escort with a uk pinto.

Pinto is a complete shitter of an engine only good thing bout it is a 205 block same as cosworth, other than that its an 8v piece of S**t!

Not so! 205 n/a block was the Sierra 2.0iS and Granada 2.0i and is actually different to the 205 Cosworth block. All the same sort of Pinto wrongness at the end of the day tho.

Managed to blow 2 'WELL BUILT' Pintos last year one thru rev limiter packing up melted the pistons and valves!! other one threw not 1but 3 conrods out through the block! Always thought cosworth n/a 205 block was a bored out pinto 205!

Not sure. But the Pinto is just yesterday's news and they were never that great anyway. Consider that the 1500 bhp Brabham F1 Turbo BMW engines (Nelson Piquet era early eighties) were based on 1600 M10 engines. For these, the bods involved bought several mega mileage 1500 and 1600 blocks from Munich scrapyards out of old 1500/1600 BMW saloons. This is because old blocks are destressed (new blocks always have casting stresses). They raced with about 950-1000 bhp but qualified with over1200 bhp.
It would have shown more than that but BMW's engine dyno wouldn't read any more.

So all these 800 bhp Skylines aren't THAT impressive really.

How's the red iS by the way?

i like that fact the K&N filter isnt included int he sale

cant belive how reputable that garage must be lol look past the car at the garage,
mot and servicing????????

i saw an m50 2.5 powered capri (unfinished, natch) on ebay a while back...spiritual swap? and this reminded me of a little picture i saw years ago (about 18 ) in "streetmachine" magazine (remember that?) of a mk4 cortina with BMW badges, quad lights, kidney grilles and so on...but where that is sort of cool and funny, a pinto powered e36 (not even a wanked old flat burgundy h-plater, but a bloody 1997 car) is WRONG WRONG WRONG an abomination and the perpetrator needs to be tied to this creation and dragged up and down a massive cheesegrater for a couple of hours

seriously though, i'd have thought the last person on earth who'd rather have a pinto in a bmw than a bmw engine probably died a long time ago i'd have put a yank V8 in it if you're gonna put a wrong engine in, do it right

HotboxDeluxe wrote:i saw an m50 2.5 powered capri (unfinished, natch) on ebay a while back...spiritual swap? and this reminded me of a little picture i saw years ago (about 18 ) in "streetmachine" magazine (remember that?) of a mk4 cortina with BMW badges, quad lights, kidney grilles and so on...

Hey I remember that old Cortina. Got some pics in the loft of it somewhere.
It was called the Impersonator.
The owner claimed he did it cos he liked the look of the BMWs but couldn't afford one.

HotboxDeluxe wrote:...the perpetrator needs to be tied to this creation and dragged up and down a massive cheesegrater for a couple of hours

Ow...