Seicento 1.4 Uno Turbo'd Seicento Rebuild Thread

[fingers99]

Screamer pipe is usually just running an open pipe from the wastegate (almost invariable a seperate wastegate, rather than the in-situ type on the T15, etc.) to atmosphere. Can be silenced, but then it wouldn't scream, would it!

 

[sei16v]

I think it can. Glass is bonded (front and rear screens) anyway, so can't see any sensible way they could attatch the headlining to the screens.

Wots this fake suede, anyway?

Ive been doing a bit of a search on here and it looks possible to remove the headlining.... so il be doing that...

Oh and yea its a fake suede, or at least i think it is... its like alcantara, if you rub your hand one way it turns the fabric a different colour, pretty cool really

 

[sei16v]

Screamer pipe is usually just running an open pipe from the wastegate (almost invariable a seperate wastegate, rather than the in-situ type on the T15, etc.) to atmosphere. Can be silenced, but then it wouldn't scream, would it!

Are there any gains to be had from doing this?

 

[Todger182]

Heh, looks pretty cool. I've got that bit of trim sitting in my car waiting for ye.

Where did you get that fabric from?

Have to have a gander at my finished rear cards sometime, need to finish carpeting my boot next week.

I need one hell of a color match for the material.....

Thanks

 

[sei16v]

Heh, looks pretty cool. I've got that bit of trim sitting in my car waiting for ye.

Where did you get that fabric from?

Have to have a gander at my finished rear cards sometime, need to finish carpeting my boot next week.

I need one hell of a color match for the material.....

Thanks

Brill should be about sometime next week as im lacking an exhaust or any seating at the min lol... however there is half a car in my room!

Have you been doing the carpet in the rear of yours in sections then?

Oh and birmingham for the fabric, its called the rag market, outside near the bullring.. the stuff i picked up was £2.99 per meter... bargain!

 

[fingers99]

Are there any gains to be had from doing this?

Some. But it'll make such a noise you're bound to be knicked!

But the big problem with that car will be keeping it on the road -- it really doesn't need any more power!

 

[randomizered]

Yeah, 99.99% you can remove the head lining without touching the glass

 

[sei16v]

Some. But it'll make such a noise you're bound to be knicked!

But the big problem with that car will be keeping it on the road -- it really doesn't need any more power!

The power is far from a problem with this car... With all the stupid pipe work the car has a mother of a turbo lag.... Once its in boost the car is stupidly quick......

So i dont really get wheel spin or major traction problems...

I did -youtube- a screamer pipe vid, and it does look a tad loud lol.. Kind of like running an engine with a blowing manifold lol

 

[sei16v]

Yeah, 99.99% you can remove the head lining without touching the glass

Wicked news... il attack that after the door cards! Cheers lol

 

[Todger182]

There was a mini cooper s ragging around last night with one of those screamer pipes. It sounded off it's rocker, didn't expect a noise like that coming from a BMW product to be honest....

Thanks

 

[BlueDan]

iirc in my Cinq the front window seal goes over the head liner but it's just a thin bit of rubber than you can pop back over with a credit card, etc. (possibly different in a Sei but a lot of things are the same between them).

btw who is Goldy?

 

[sei16v]

haha oh a good mate...

One of my other mates decided to write a message for him on one of my rear cards lol...

 

[sei16v]

There was a mini cooper s ragging around last night with one of those screamer pipes. It sounded off it's rocker, didn't expect a noise like that coming from a BMW product to be honest....

Thanks

Oh i thought the cooper was super charged, and not turbo charged...

 

[fingers99]

The power is far from a problem with this car... With all the stupid pipe work the car has a mother of a turbo lag.... Once its in boost the car is stupidly quick......

So i dont really get wheel spin or major traction problems...

That's probably a good thing! Looks like someone did their sums wrong on the tub, but too big will be much more manageable than too small. If the mani looks like a bodge job, that would be a good place to start if you want to live more dangerously.

 

[Todger182]

Oh i thought the cooper was super charged, and not turbo charged...

Don't know, I spotted it at tamworth last night. Bloody thing was rapid.

Thanks

 

[fingers99]

Oh i thought the cooper was super charged, and not turbo charged...

Depends on the year. They changed the engine and from supercharger to turbo at some point.

 

[allanhelen]

You sure it wasn't just the Supercharger you could hear, lots of people over spin them

I'm spinning the M45 on my MX-5 at 17,500 rpm and it sounds like a banshee

Find a video clip of the Mercedes silver arrows if you want to hear a supercharger at it's best

 

[foxyemx]

The R53 MINI uses a Chrysler sourced 1.6L iron block fairly old design unrefined engine with Eaton Supercharger, used to keep development costs and ultimately resale costs down to an acceptable level, though 220bhp is very easy to get from them, I did consider one as the Celica GT4 replacement.

The new R56 MINI uses a much more modern alloy block jointly developed with Peugeot 1.6L Turbo engine as found in 207 GTi etc. as standard more powerful, more torque, lower emissions, lower mpg, lighter, and mush more refined than earlier engine.

Good progress on the car to bring post back on track, but the question begs to be asked, you're selling the 2L Sei as it has no back seats as baby on the way & therefore impracticable, but you then buy fixed bucket seats for this car which limits rear access, or have I missed something?

Emma is signed in but I can't be arsed logging out and back in but its me J333EVO

 

[Todger182]

His wifey has a saxo, and he can get away with an impractical car now .

Thanks

 

[sei16v]

The R53 MINI uses a Chrysler sourced 1.6L iron block fairly old design unrefined engine with Eaton Supercharger, used to keep development costs and ultimately resale costs down to an acceptable level, though 220bhp is very easy to get from them, I did consider one as the Celica GT4 replacement.

The new R56 MINI uses a much more modern alloy block jointly developed with Peugeot 1.6L Turbo engine as found in 207 GTi etc. as standard more powerful, more torque, lower emissions, lower mpg, lighter, and mush more refined than earlier engine.

Good progress on the car to bring post back on track, but the question begs to be asked, you're selling the 2L Sei as it has no back seats as baby on the way & therefore impracticable, but you then buy fixed bucket seats for this car which limits rear access, or have I missed something?

Emma is signed in but I can't be arsed logging out and back in but its me J333EVO

Missed something lol... Is in the post somewhere, but we have a second car, and at worst case the seicento can have rear seats refitted, the black one cant without a good days work, and to be fair i dont want to destroy that car...