Hi, recently got myself a 57 plate fiat gp tjet in red. It's had a front end bump so only paid £700 for it.
It's done 64k miles. Anyway thought I would start a build or rebuild thread.
So far got every thing apart from complete front bumper, head lamps front n/s abs sensor and 1 standard 17 inch fiat wheel.
Parts got are:
Air con rad
Coolant rad with fan assembly
Slam panel
Rads support panel (don't know the name)
Bumper support with bonnet catch
Intercooler
Both front seat belts as the pre tensioners had gone off on mine.
Aerial as someone ripped the other off by the looks.
Paid £250 for all that which wasn't bad considering fiat wanted over £2500.
Anyway I've just bought myself a full service kit inluding the timing belt and tensioner, water pump and engine locking timing kit.
This is what the car looked like when I got it (top left picture)
Since then I've put the rads and intercooler in the support panel and did bolt it all together to run the car and see what the engine was like.
Engine sounded great and turbo boosted fine.
heres a vid
This is what it looked like at that point (top right picture)
Since then I've removed the front end and all boost and coolant pipes and have order new pipes from forge but gotta wait 5 weeks as I want them in red.
The car also lost the ability to talk through the blue & me, but I've managed to update the system and it is now fluent in the English language lol.
I've also bought a full diagnostic cable set to read all the different ecu's in the car using multiecuscan.
It's done 64k miles. Anyway thought I would start a build or rebuild thread.
So far got every thing apart from complete front bumper, head lamps front n/s abs sensor and 1 standard 17 inch fiat wheel.
Parts got are:
Air con rad
Coolant rad with fan assembly
Slam panel
Rads support panel (don't know the name)
Bumper support with bonnet catch
Intercooler
Both front seat belts as the pre tensioners had gone off on mine.
Aerial as someone ripped the other off by the looks.
Paid £250 for all that which wasn't bad considering fiat wanted over £2500.
Anyway I've just bought myself a full service kit inluding the timing belt and tensioner, water pump and engine locking timing kit.
This is what the car looked like when I got it (top left picture)
Since then I've put the rads and intercooler in the support panel and did bolt it all together to run the car and see what the engine was like.
Engine sounded great and turbo boosted fine.
heres a vid
This is what it looked like at that point (top right picture)
Since then I've removed the front end and all boost and coolant pipes and have order new pipes from forge but gotta wait 5 weeks as I want them in red.
The car also lost the ability to talk through the blue & me, but I've managed to update the system and it is now fluent in the English language lol.
I've also bought a full diagnostic cable set to read all the different ecu's in the car using multiecuscan.
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