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Old 10th December 2016, 19:54   #13
spyder
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Originally Posted by Saga Lout View Post
I had a friend in the 1980's called Glenn, he was a tuner and did heads of differing stages. He built a 132 motor to stage 3 and grafted into a Polski Fiat, painted it Green and put the Red star on the doors. It was incredible and left many performance cars standing. I think about it and smile, he did me a 2.1 Pinto head for a MK2 Escort, that was a lot of fun in a car that looked battered...
Both the 131 & 132 with a down draught carb go really well, stick a manifold on with twin or 4 side draughts, that are properly balanced and they can go, Um quite well.

The other advantage is that a cam-belt takes a 1/2 hour to replace and cost peanuts to do.
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