MOPED ARMY

Pinto's have a Puch E50 engine, so do a search in the moped repair section and figure out how to make your bike run like new (i.e. 30mph) and then head back to the performance section and go from there!

Pintos are cool mopeds, but Swingers are cooler.

Generally accepted upgrades are all in the eyes of the beholder. Bigger carb and expansion pipe are a good start. My accepted upgrades were to take a barn fresh Pinto and turn it into a screamer. Look at my profile and you can see what I did. Have fun. Do to it what ever you want. Most of all have fun with it. I <3 Pintos!

Put a compression tester on your bike and see how many PSI you are building. Less than 90psi means low compression, and if your rings are shot, replace your top end with a 65cc Metrakit, and bore out your intake to match your 15mm carb, toss on a bullet or boss exhaust, and you will be cooking easily to a solid 40mph, with much more potential. If you have decent compression, your bike is running that slowly because of another reason, like bad points, condenser, incorrect timing, bad jetting, clogged exhaust or bad seals. Fix those first, and I promise you it will be much better later on!

I get about 125 for compression. Is that about right?

OK, I'll have ot check other things. If there's a slight hill it will top out at 5 mph. If it's a slightly steeper hill, it will not make it at all.

I'll check the exhaust manifold or carbon. Probably replace the old skool exhaust.

Anythng else?

So, is 5-10 up a hill expected to be normal? Do you have a stock motor and exhaust?

i'm considering upgrading to 70cc with a bigger carb and performance exhaust. I'll let you know if I find more power.

Here's what I did with one of mine (actually two). http://www.mopedarmy.com/forums/discuss/read.php?f=1&i=461041&t=461040

5-10 up hill is not normal, but no offense 280lbs is not normal for a moped either.

I weigh in at about 180 and with 14-45 gearing on the above mentioned bike I can pull 25 up some seriously steep hills/mountains (6%+ grades), I took it up to 9000' above sea level last week without a problem. It can still cruise at 30 all day and tops out downhill (and screaming) at about 38.

Really what you do to the bike as far performance parts go is all up to what you want the bike to do. Do you want a good all around daily driver, do you want a top-speed flat land screamer, do want a torquey hill climber, etc., etc.?