The Maverick has a little brother...

My friends supercharged 2.3 Pinto. He wants to race my Maverick when the 331 goes in

 

Looks like a very good installation

Probably be a pretty good match up but be prepared to lose, until his motor blows anyhow

 

I know. His car is going to be impressive. No idea what kind of power it will make but 300 should be easy More if he uses the SDS computer and 64# injectors. He has everything done to the 2.3 Ported head, intakes, big valves, throttle body, full length header. And the metal o-ringed super head gaskets My 331 will make a little over 400. The Pinto weighs around 2400-2500 LBS. My Mav clocks in at 2840 LBS. He's running a T-5 and 3.55 rear gears. I have a T-5 And 3.70s. I think that Pinto will be scary fast, and it's never been done before so it's going to be a car show favorite. Needs a cowl hood though. The blower intake and the upper intake manifold are 1-2" too high.

Oh and great thing is it's all Ford that's a T-Bird SC M90 blower from the junk yard... Good times.

 

I had a Tbird SC supercharger and sold it in the paper figuring I would never have a use for it.
Got it off a buddies totaled car before the tow truck came for it.

 

Wow!

 

That was my thought too...WOW! Nice setup...but a scary short wheelbase! LOL Let us know how it turns out.

 

Looks to me like it is already "blown"...

 

very cool!
Those 2.3's are tough motors!

 

Road trip the Pinto to Colorado and blow T.L.'s doors off.....It'd ruin him!

 

Cool !!!!

 

Not sure how the super charged engine will run, but a Pinto with a T-Bird Turbo motor was runninh 11's at LA County raceway a few years ago. May be a little harder to launch with a super charger as it's instant power rather then a little latter on the power for the turbo, but that super charged set up looks great.

 

The car's still having teething issues. A sensor is probably the culprit. He also cut his finger to the bone at work so no progress this week. I'm going over there tomorrow to see if anythings changed.

 

Gotta be fun to smoke hondas and ricers with that.

 

When we had the first "gas shortage", back in the mid 70's, a lot of the high school kids, that wanted cruisers, started running stock 4 cylinder Datsuns, Pintos and Vegas all jacked up with a single cherry bomb. I remember a lot of funny light to light races back then but that was their answer to high gas prices or no gas at all. A friend of mine had a Vega but stuffed a 427 in it. It was jacked up too so it wasn't so strange to see an air shocked Datsun B210 come up to it at a light and stage like it was about to run 9's in the quarter. You should have seen the look on the kid's face when that Vega launched, when the light turned green, and the kid in the B210 was still sitting there.


That supercharged Pinto might have that same effect.

 

Well my cousins friend had a pinto with a cleveland in it.

This photo was from sometime in the early 90's.