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Originally Posted by Bill Ladd
I always heard the Kent 1600* wound up in early Pintos. Never really checked it out, though.
*FFs are 1600 -- their big brothers with wings and things, Formula Continental, used the early 2000s and have since gone to a newer 2 liter Ford powerplant. Zetec or something like that.
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According to the Standard Catalog of American Cars, ( 1971)"Pintos were available with either a British-built 1600CC overhead valve four cylinder engine or a second, more powerful ( and much more popular) German-built 2000cc engine which was also a four" 1600cc 98 cid 3.19X 3.06 CR 8.4:1, 75 Brake HP at 5000 rpm, 5 main bearings.
The same engine was carried over into 1972, rated at net 54 HP. The engine was not offered in 1973 domestic products.
The drop from 75 gross to 54 net HP is revealing!
The engine described in a post above was the 2300 OH CAM, the Kent engine is a push rod one.