Harris Pinto on the Dyno

[PaulKemp]

For those that know a Harris Pinto is a legendary thing not often seen in the wild and certainly never seen on a non Harris dyno. Graham Bahr of Penguin motors has been asked to make this Harris Pinto more drivable for a street car

https://youtu.be/3P_NH_GZHgs

[stevieturbo]

I guess when sticking to carbs and an old dizzy like that, there are more compromises.

A change to EFI and proper mappable ignition is bound to help quite a lot at the low end. As well as likely a cam swap to make it happier down low.

But would be very interesting just to try an EFI setup first.

[normalbloke]

I think I’d run a mile looking at that guys dyno cell. I particularly liked the HT lead running across the exhaust manifold.

[TwinKam]

normalbloke said:

I think I’d run a mile looking at that guys dyno cell. I particularly liked the HT lead running across the exhaust manifold.

...surprised it survived!

[Sardonicus]

Closed throttle compression test open this would have given a better indication of compression pressure by how quick the gauge was scaling/rate rather than just winding away on the starter waiting for the needle to rise due to a only a slightly cracked butterfly/or air bypass on that Weber DCOE just my cents that engine is clearly tired however

[stevieturbo]

normalbloke said:

I think I’d run a mile looking at that guys dyno cell. I particularly liked the HT lead running across the exhaust manifold.

Everyone has to start somewhere. Not every dyno owner is a millionaire.

What's your dyno cell like ?

[gazza285]

stevieturbo said:

normalbloke said:

I think I’d run a mile looking at that guys dyno cell. I particularly liked the HT lead running across the exhaust manifold.

Everyone has to start somewhere. Not every dyno owner is a millionaire.

What's your dyno cell like ?

Looks pretty normal to me, this isn’t F1.

I think that’s a pretty realistic power for a well built Pinto, I know people claim to make more, but I’m not sure if I believe them.

[PaulKemp]

normalbloke said:

I think I’d run a mile looking at that guys dyno cell. I particularly liked the HT lead running across the exhaust manifold.

Whilst his dyno cell is not the tidiest around he is a very well respected Pinto, Crossflow and Rover V8 tuner, has built a normally aspirated bored and stroked 2.3 Pinto that produces 230bhp, he is also on Turbosports forum where a lot of high achieving engine builders give advice for free.
So many great tuning houses are not polished shrines…