General Got my Cinq today :D
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General Got my Cinq today :D
Looks good mate, is that an Abarth steering wheel I can see?
Yes its an abarth, with steering wheel yes
This is the car im going to use for my turbo cinquecento got another in the back of the garden stripped.
Neat and tidy car.
Very nice car, full of abarth bits!
It's crying out for some bigger wheels though!
It's crying out for some bigger wheels though!
It's so long that I can't remember! Green one off an Escort turbo?
Much more important, though, is how you sort out the control for the fuelling.
Very nice car, full of abarth bits!
It's crying out for some bigger wheels though!
Its all original was really lucky with this deal
Yes its lowerd a little but yes definetly new wheels haha
The old and nasty way was a fuel cut defender, and an aquamist MF2 to control a second injector (you need an uprated fuel pump, too).
Probably better, nowadays, to go for an aftermarket ECU and MPI (punto or Sei MPI head).
Get it right and they're a hoot. Get it wrong and they're a pain in the bottom.
1.2 or 1.4 16v is a fair bit cheaper and much less risky, and 115bhp is enough for most people, most of the time.
Probably better, nowadays, to go for an aftermarket ECU and MPI (punto or Sei MPI head).
Get it right and they're a hoot. Get it wrong and they're a pain in the bottom.
1.2 or 1.4 16v is a fair bit cheaper and much less risky, and 115bhp is enough for most people, most of the time.
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Thanks for pointing those things out.
I was thinking of let some one make my ecu like the novitec ones that are on the market just a diffrent chip in than original one.
then i should be able to get with only Decomp plate/low comp pistons and gt15 turbo around 135 HP Safe.
and that is with the standard injectors.
I was thinking of let some one make my ecu like the novitec ones that are on the market just a diffrent chip in than original one.
then i should be able to get with only Decomp plate/low comp pistons and gt15 turbo around 135 HP Safe.
and that is with the standard injectors.
Unless you've changed the engine, you only have one injector. Even with an MPI head, there's no hope of getting more than twice the stock bhp out of the stock injectors.
I can't see it being possible to chip the SPI ECU: it doesn't understand boost, let alone tricky stuff like "retard on boost". Woj managed to get his car running on the late Sei ECU, but that was a supreme effort by someone who knows what he's doing.
135bhp isn't impossible, but the GT15 will be running a lot of boost to get there which raises other problems. With anything but modern management set up by someone competent (and probably water/methanol injection, too) it'll not be safe. Consider what FIAT had to do to get 130 reliable bhp out of the 1.4 T Jet!
There's lots of stuff here documented on turbo conversions a search will find. I'd suggest you read it, along with a few books on turbocharging. Success is expensive, failure more so.
