I'm amazed that coupe alloys are on that sei!!

PAN366E sei, They are 17x6j with brembo's from an alfa 166 3.2 V6 iirc.

How thin are those tyres! That must be like sitting on top of a washing machine on spin cycle.

tbf, following paul about, it looks like a smooth ride for a cento - and the seats are uber comfy too.

I had those alloys on my punto gt and the tyres on that were just as thin!! How do they affect performance?

16x7j
165 40 16's
And it's not bad at stopping lol

Performance is ok, it's the SX gearbox that I think is the main issue... But does mean I can cruse at 100mph @ 4300rpm and still drop to 4th at that speed....

Think you as low as me ;( off to turn them coilovers down

lol, its defo as low as it can go with this wheel and tyre combo at the front - still not fitted the new rear suspension yet so that should drop a little too

Was really interesting to see this at the meet the other day, very tidy conversion. Nice job, I like it a lot!

Totally didn't click about the Grumpy Cat at the time, but that's AMAZING

cheers fella, good to meet you too. I just need to tidy a few wires now and then sort the oil breather - there is a pipe on it that looks like it should be there but if you follow it atm it just goes down behind the rad and stops. Will probably make a induction kit of sorts and plumb it into the intake, or to a catch tank and then to the intake, undecided..

You shall have to bring your saab out at some point, love a gander at that

Cheers! I'm hoping to get it up and running over the next few weeks...

That sounds like a good plan - they can have a lot of oil going through them I think?

Catch tank would be rather snazzy

pretty sure i have one kicking about somewhere - should be off back up north to sort though my sheds in a couple of weeks time so i'll have a root around for one

Sun came out for a bit, so took her for a spin up the lane to top of the hill. Would have been rude to not take a couple of snaps

Needs delta wheels on her

Anyone fancy buying the Seicento?

PAN366E said:

Anyone fancy buying the Seicento?

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Have you put it in the Classifieds?

jatkinson said:

Needs delta wheels on her

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MMMM, perhaps we could come to an arrangement

so Betty is back in service.

But this morning both rear springs snapped in same journey So finally fitted the new FK rear springs and shocks. Also trimmed the bump stops a little - not sure it was entirely essential but i would have been annoyed if i had to get them out and trim them after so just did it anyway.

So here is the suspension that came out, and the trimmed off bits of bump stop


Here is old vs new spring length


And the new and old shocks at full extension


and here is how she sits on said new rear suspension




Also, the joys of being pretty damn low, hit the bottom hard enough to dent the downpipe good and proper, it snapped a stud that hold the downpipe to the manifold and opened up the join so most of the exhaust gases weren't making it down the exhaust to the rear and it sounded like it was farting So shot over to Kidderminster to see Simon who has been breaking a 16v cinq to pick up my bits i ordered and beg and plead for the manifold and downpipe, a deal was struck and we set about swapping that over too - no pics as was really in a hurry to get there, fix it and get back home in time to pick up the mrs from work (which i managed with about 2 mins to spare).

Few more bits need doing, washer pumps stopped working but i have 12v going to them so got a replacement off Simon today in Kidderminster, also got new windscreen to go in as have cracked mine (again, joys of being too low for the roads round here i think) and there was a few other things - i'll post as this stuff eventually gets fitted.

That's just mental - so low and the wheels so big :nutter:

still got those sports seats in it too?

You must have a spine made of steel

is that the 70/50 kit?