RobW said:

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

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Are you happy with the Bravo; have you modified it at all?

Amen, stop flirting with Rob and buy those cams, get them fitted.

LOL..Actually I,m not going to go for the cams after all. I had the car remaped today on a rolling road dyno, TAT to be specific. The results were good.The orig hp on the car was 95.5hp (70.2kw) at 6300 rpm torque was 124Nm with stock air filter and box, and cat back exhaust.After remap we got 103.7hp (76.2kw) at 5896 rpm torque 145.6Nm. Whats interesting though is that about 4500 the hp increase was almost 15hp! In any event the shop suggested that a exhaust manifold with sport cat, would probably be more beneficial than the cams. They said cams would probably give me some gains but near the 6000 range. So I.m waiting for a bmc I ordered, and maybe save some $$ for a ragazzon ex manifold and sport cat and see were it takes us!

Interesting - as you say, longer-duration cam timing would give you more at the top end but there's an inevitable compromise lower down - ranging from a lumpy tickover to a possible dip in the torque curve in the low-to-middle range

babbo_umbro said:

Interesting - as you say, longer-duration cam timing would give you more at the top end but there's an inevitable compromise lower down - ranging from a lumpy tickover to a possible dip in the torque curve in the low-to-middle range

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Exactly! who drives in the 6K anyway:devil:

amen said:

After remap we got 103.7hp (76.2kw) at 5896 rpm torque 145.6Nm.

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Centos with the 1.4 16v engines (generally the fitment includes better mani, less restrictive cat, better exhaust, better induction -- no fly by wire -- and an aftermarket ECU) generally put out about 110bhp without messing with the innards, so that's not bad. Shame you have all that extra flab to lug around, though!

amen said:

Exactly! who drives in the 6K anyway:devil:

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.....raises hand