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General Punto mk2b HGT?????

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General Punto mk2b HGT?????

ChrisUK said:
And 2.25k for a 54 plate mk2b isn't bad but as you say will probably need alot of work doing very soon :idea:.
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faster4_tec said:
£2.25k over the top of a minty private
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So that was probably somewhere along the lines of £6k then?

From what I have seen the 1.8 is slower than you would expect it to be in standard form but with a few tweeks it has the ability to play with the BIG BOYS.

However as F4T and Chris pointed out, they dont half drink petrol :eek: Motorway driving seems to return a pretty decent MPG figure from what I have been told but if you just blasting it back and forth around town then dont expect to get very far on a tanks worth of petrol.

Im looking to swap my 1.2 8v mk2b for a Bravo HGT 2.0 20v 5pot soon so it looks like I will be having competitions with Danny HGT to see who can get over 30mpg average from a tank lol
 
Before my map the mpg was around 28mpg going down to around 19mpg! when ragging it. Now its 38mpg and only goes down to 32mpg when thrashing it.

I agree about it feeling a bit slow when standard, it feels tight and strangled like you know there should be more there, basic breathing mods make the world of diffrence(y)
 
my HGT (with a dodgy variator) doesn't feel that slow. The thing i like about it is even when you are doing 90 there is still a kick when you put your foot down in 5th.

They are very nice cars to drive, the engine is very smooth and has a very nice noise above 3500rpm.

But the fuel consumption is dreadfull (i get 24mpg average, and i drive like your grandad most of the time). it drops to 23mpg in stop start traffic and the best i get is usually 27mpg. Untill the variator recovers though, Then i get a massive mpg improvement (28-30) and a MASSIVE power improvement (loads of low down torque and a brown trousers moment at 3500rpm). When i get the variator fixed and a couple of other things done, and fit few toys, i will be a happy man.

I have no hesitation in saying that, apart from the mpg, the HGT is the BEST mk2 punto
 
Ransoman said:
my HGT (with a dodgy variator) doesn't feel that slow. The thing i like about it is even when you are doing 90 there is still a kick when you put your foot down in 5th.

They are very nice cars to drive, the engine is very smooth and has a very nice noise above 3500rpm.

But the fuel consumption is dreadfull (i get 24mpg average, and i drive like your grandad most of the time). it drops to 23mpg in stop start traffic and the best i get is usually 27mpg. Untill the variator recovers though, Then i get a massive mpg improvement (28-30) and a MASSIVE power improvement (loads of low down torque and a brown trousers moment at 3500rpm). When i get the variator fixed and a couple of other things done, and fit few toys, i will be a happy man.

I have no hesitation in saying that, apart from the mpg, the HGT is the BEST mk2 punto
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Similar symptoms on on my Alfa when the variator was knacked. Absolutly no torque low down and outragous fuel economy I think mine got as low as 17mpg. I think once you get it fixed you should get about 30ish :).
 
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