Bravo My Bravo 1.4 t-jet 120HP Maranello Rosso

MikeG20 said:

Some minor modification....

My solution for excessive oil on air inlet:

Its a LPG filter, after few 1000 km works great

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This is a clever way indeed. But I thought oil is a good thing at intake manifold. (Especially to you with LPG)

Correct me if I'm wrong.

The Bravo looks great, love the mods you've done

I don't remember seeing it on the Croatian Fiat forum though

I was there for years, even been vicepresident of the club, but i didnt agree with things that was happening there. It was inside job hahahahaha.
Im on alfisti.hr

J4MI3 said:

They're not a standard bulb.

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Yes they are, can be purchased from any motor factor, or halfords dare I say. They're not a special Fiat specific bulb, just not the common 21watt units

cmosfxx said:

This is a clever way indeed. But I thought oil is a good thing at intake manifold. (Especially to you with LPG)

Correct me if I'm wrong.

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Yes, but not that kind of oil. Special LPG oil is for cooling valves not to lubricate them. And oil vapour go to inlet manifold through one more smaller pipe

Hi,
Great mods and work.
I have a tjet 120 2010 and my recirculation lever is broken too, or so I believe.
The motor that opens and closes the lever is working, but the lever is always open.
So I removed the black trim on the bottom of the windshield and closed it manually.
I read somewhere on the forums that you have to remove the dashboard in order to replace this lever unit.
Did you do it? Is there a different way to change/fix this part?

Any help will be appreciated

Thanx mate.

Yes, i think it is impossible to replace recirculation actuator without removing dashboard and ventilation box.
I made special small 5mm wrench, bu managed to loose only 2 screws, but one is unreachable

Wow, time flies too fast
Bravo is still rolling without problem.
Now on 144 000km on the clock
Average consumption 9l of lpg on 100km or 31mpg, currwnt prices and ex. rates 4.7 euro/100km or 4 GPB/100km
Further mods:

Rear licence plate leds
http://www.ebay.com/itm/371344227691?_trksid=p2057872.m2749.l2649&ssPageName=STRK:MEBIDX:IT


Lot of light:



During summer, new Uniroyal Rainsport 3 tires:

All cavities protected with vax, 3 kg








New Magneti Marelli fog lights




On old ones reflecting area turned yellow.
I put these in fog lights, very bright

http://www.ebay.com/itm/390923750239

And led trunk lights originally from BMW F10, with little modification of connector

http://www.ebay.com/itm/272254735491?_trksid=p2057872.m2749.l2649&ssPageName=STRK%3AMEBIDX%3AIT

155 000km on the clock.
No issues with car, just tank&drive
After using expencive Selenia K.P.E. (almost 20 euro/L without discont) i use Castrol Magnatec 5w40 C3 with stated Fiat 9.55535-S2 specification (like K.P.E.) and costs 7 euro/L.
No diference in oil pressure, temperature, oil consumption regard to Selenia.
I change oil every 12-13 000km

162 000kn on clock.
It si time to change timing belt, water pump, tensioner since passed 5 years/ 80 000km from last change.
I ordered timing tools to do it by myself

FInally changed that ugly brown plastics with black

Before/after

170 500km on clock.


Front left spring snapped, so i changed both (KYB K-Flex), shocks too (KYB G-excell, and shoch upper mount (KYB)






New front break disc and pads (TRW), wishbones (SLR brand, i will refurbish old with TRW parts), new stabilizer bar linkage (TRW)





Also new cam belt+tensioner+water pump (Continental set)
New aux belt (Continental)+ tensioner (Ruville)
New coolant hose radiator thermostat(Fiat)-it was leaking on thermostat connection
New thermostat (Behr)-with old one, temp. gauge was oscilating few milimeters
New coolant (Paraflu up), sparks (NGK Irridium), air filter (FIltron)



New gearbox mounts, upper and lower (Lemforder-they are original with Fiat/FPT marks deleted)










New DMF (Luk), clutch set (Valeo) and concentric cilinder (Fiat, made by FTE)
Original was DMF and clutch set by Luk, Concentric cilinder by FTE, all FPT marked







Al above mentioned was 1350 euros/1200 GBP, done by myself an I hehe

Also had two misterious coolant leakage, one on engine block, on water pump housing (on picture that little hole with pink leakage residue-done by new thread and screw and screw-glue, other on radiator hose (done by new clamp)

And bigger rear viper from Peugeot

Rear bushes replaced, old were Lemforder so i bought Lemforder






Also found rear left spring snapped, replaced with Kayaba k-flex

Looks nice and clean, and well done on all the work done. Love the red. :slayer:

MikeG20 said:

162 000kn on clock.
It si time to change timing belt, water pump, tensioner since passed 5 years/ 80 000km from last change.
I ordered timing tools to do it by myself

FInally changed that ugly brown plastics with black

Before/after

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How do you go about doing this? do you have a part code for the black one?

y2dom said:

How do you go about doing this? do you have a part code for the black one?

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No, i didnt memorize part code. Its taken from 1.4 16v base trim level Bravo

170 000km on the clock.
Some little changes:





Sandblasted, plastic primer, black matte temp. resistant paint
Reassembled using Loctite sealer












Checked again OCC, i expectet much more oil





I had some armaflex left (selfadhesive, 2cm, with alu-foil) so i damped doors





It is a difference.

Headlights look great, better than forking out for the facelift versions. How did you split the lens cover?

Also can you show where you have fitted the oil catch tank? Think I’ll do the same, have a new induction kit installed and don’t want oil covering the inside.