Originally posted by wydraz
I'm not that silly
I checked first and they gave me it from the 1st of Jan which was nice of them, 2 days free tax! 
I taxed my Indy yesterday and couldnt resist taking it for a drive, mainly to see if I had set up the fan controller correctly and to see if the sump
cleared the speed bumps, both ok.
I wasn't overly impressed with the performance from the Pinto 2 litre - it felt much slower than my tintop Fabia vRS, mind you I was feathering
the throttle a little as it was very cold and looked slippy....I didn't take it much above 3000rpm....can I expect a real burst of acceleration
above that rev range with a standard pinto 2.0?
Cheers and happy new year!
Dan
[Edited on 31/12/08 by wydraz]
You taxed it on the 30th? Why not wait until tomorrow, you've basically wasted a months tax money!
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Originally posted by gingerprince
You taxed it on the 30th? Why not wait until tomorrow, you've basically wasted a months tax money!
I checked first and they gave me it from the 1st of Jan which was nice of them, 2 days free tax!
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Originally posted by wydraz
I'm not that silly
I think you will find the tax is not effective until the 1st. I once had to forsake a months tax for the sake of a day as a car I was buying was some
distance away and needed to tax it to bring it home.
May be wrong but since when did the motorist get anything free?
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Originally posted by gingerprince
quote:
Originally posted by wydraz
I'm not that silly
Well then you were driving without road tax, so good job you didn't get pulled!
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I drive my tintop without road tax all the time 
Catch me if you can....hee hee
quote:
Originally posted by wydraz
I taxed my Indy yesterday and couldnt resist taking it for a drive, mainly to see if I had set up the fan controller correctly and to see if the sump cleared the speed bumps, both ok.
I wasn't overly impressed with the performance from the Pinto 2 litre - it felt much slower than my tintop Fabia vRS, mind you I was feathering the throttle a little as it was very cold and looked slippy....I didn't take it much above 3000rpm....can I expect a real burst of acceleration above that rev range with a standard pinto 2.0?
Cheers and happy new year!
Dan
[Edited on 31/12/08 by wydraz]
more the performance of the Pinto
Happy new year to all too!
The standard 2 litre Pinto in my Locost isn't very exciting or fast, the acceleration is pretty dismal.
Hello
To be honest i don't think the Pinto engine is bad at all alot of people knock them and yes in standard form they are abit tame.
However fit a big valve head, Cam and some bike carbs and have it balanced and you can make them fly.
I went in a proper rally MK2 Escort recently on a tarmac sprint and it was mixing with the best 16v Vauxhall and Zetec's etc and sounded
great.
I think with a standard Pinto car most of the benefit will come round the twisty bits once you have it setup right,it always amusess me when you come
to some fast bends and the numpty behind is gritting his teeth trying to keep up and you have still got something in reserve.
Have fun with it and get used to driving it first and then look at more power.
Cheers
You should have a look at these 2 threads.
First be carefull out there...
http://www.locostbuilders.co.uk/viewthread.php?tid=103236
Second the answer to your performance problem...
http://www.locostbuilders.co.uk/viewthread.php?tid=103231
I'll get my coat!
adrian
yea, i was just about to say...
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Originally posted by wydraz
I wasn't overly impressed with the performance from the Pinto 2 litre.
I didn't take it much above 3000rpm....can I expect a real burst of acceleration above that rev range with a standard pinto 2.0?