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Has anyone had experience with these cams on a F500 1.4. I was looking at the road medium. Can anyone comment on the idle, torque figures,low or high, and overall driveability.
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Tuning colombo bariani sport cams
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Very few people, I believe, will have tried them. But C & B don't mess around. There are Polish cams, too, which are generally cheaper.
Remap would make sense to get the best out of them.
Remap would make sense to get the best out of them.
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Colombo have been making cams for decades - I put quite a hot Colombo cam in a 903 cc Fiat 600something like 40 years ago - well engineered from scratch rather than a regrind with reduced base circle on the lobes.
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I have heard they make exceptional products,just dont know how it will behave in the 500. Its a car thats used for everyday, so I dont want to go totally nuts with it.
I've said that before. Then I bought a quaife diff. Bilstein coilovers. Rose jointed suspension bits. Lightest alloys I could find. Custom stainless steel exhaust.
Other than the exhaust your car is fine as a daily driver though. Even the exhaust isn't terrible.
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Mis-remembered - I'm 65 you know - I put a Giannini cam in the 600, put a pair of Colombo cams in a Ritmo Abarth 130TC - with bigger throttle bodies in the Solex carbs; great engine, endless grunt, felt as though the horizon was on a piece of stretched elastic.
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Yeah thats usually the way it goes! LOL. Money pits. Would the cams be a good choice though?
if you fit those cams you will also need a better air filter and exhaust, and remap and you will get 120bhp
then you will need better suspension and brakes, and tyres...
or you could just buy an Abarth 500 with the T Jet engine and have 135 bhp
and better suspension and brakes, and tyres...
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Like I said money pits! Hopefully though this would be the last thing I do, everything else mentioned is already installed. I'll post results when its all done
Like I said money pits! Hopefully though this would be the last thing I do, everything else mentioned is already installed. I'll post results when its all done
i wonder
your car isn't a 2007 model black with red stripe model is it?
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Nope, 2009 all black.
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Well the red stripe could have come off easily enough.....
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Why? Did someones 500 black with red stripes go boom!
no my old car was exported to Greece, wondered if you had it
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Pound to a penny* says it is your car, Rob.
* Not literally.
* Not literally.
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Wow, small world. Can you post some pics, maybe I'll see it in the street somewhere. Did you do all those mods we mentioned along with the camshafts? Its odd though who would buy a right sided car in Greece, sure it ended up here?
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it was LHD
on spax coilovers, supersprint system inc headers
pics in the gallery https://www.fiatforum.com/members-motors/224419-my-500-sport-1-4-autoitalia-photoshoot.html
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what rim and tyre sized were you runing; sweet ride btw, dont know how you gave it up!
205 40 17 i think, same as the Abarth anyway
was a great car and loved it
swapped for another quick Fiat though, a Bravo TJet Sport 150