L&G,
The 'new-to-me' engine is in the car all connected up, twin SUs in place of the original nasty carb.
Filled with oil and established oil pressure then did a compression test (before the manifolds went on) and all cylinders were in the 160 to 170 range.
Fired up first time!
I left it idling for about 15 minutes and the temp gauge reached half scale.
One noticeable difference from the old engine - there's now a steady stream of water coming into the header tank from the rad+'stat bleeds. Previously when it got hot and the header filled up, there was a stream of bubbles.

There's still a few mods to do, mainly the throttle linkage needs a bit of adjustment as the cable is a bit tight for length and a different bracket for the header tank.
But apart from that it's looking a lot more promising than the old one.



Offside


Nearside

Nice one.

Time to get some miles under your tyres!

Mike

john did you check that the water pump was working on the other pinto?

Alex,
Haven't taken it out since, but it was fine when I rebuilt the front end of the old engine - it only did about 50 miles since then.
The 'new' engine looked to have a newer pump so I used that; I removed it, checked it and refitted with a new gasket.
John.

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Originally posted by omega0684
john did you check that the water pump was working on the other pinto?

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