General 106MPH in my Fiat Uno 999c Fire!!

[turbo_jim]

From what i've heard from cinqucento owners Im 99% sure that you cant swap the gearboxes from the ohv engine and FIRE engines.

Top speeds I've managed so far:
cinq sporting (1100 fire): 110mph downhill
Lancia y10 (999 fire): 90mph downhill (but there was more to come..)
uno turbo: 130mph going uphill!!! (with more to come, but that would just be daft)

BTW breaking the speed limit is not big and not clever.

 

[oldskoolmk1unoturbo]

I've had 145 MPH indicated on my MK1 uno digital dash,

very very scary lol the red lights came on at the end of the rev range and was hitting the rev limiter i have which is set at 7000rpm but slow cut starts at 6800 rpm

 

[slapper]

Well I have been in my friends Uno race car at 210kmph on a relatively short back straight (supercar V8's hit 280). Its N/A 1300 head with a 1600 Tipo block. 210 kph with 40 DCOE carbs and 130 whp. He Just installed 45 DCOE's and Dynoed it at 155whp at 8000 rpm. NO rev cut off. It is built to spin all day at 9000 and max at 10,000. Should haul ass now with 25 whp more and 28Nm extra of torque and its now 700kg (70kg lighter than before). NEEDS A LSD!!

 

[Morty Mort]

I must also add that it suffered no ill effects or overheating, in fact the temperature gauge was sitting at a very normal 80 degrees.

Imagine the cold air speed into the intake. The air temp sensor often showed lower values on my Uno when driving at "fast" speeds.

See you want a Strada Abarth. I could ask my brother to sell one of his, but they have the wrong name (Ritmo) and have the steering wheel on the wrong side. But the Ritmo / Strada is the funnies car I've ever driven, and hope you will be getting one soon. Go for the 130TC.

Morten.

 

[myte128]

175Kph in my very brick like 128 which has an uno 1301 engine in it and a 4 speed 128 wagon box (lower final drive). Reads about 7500rpm. The engine has been balanced and has a slightly larger carb on it with a sporty exhaust. I think thats impressive for the old beasty considering it hasn't had that much done to it.

 

[slapper]

Yeah I agree thats pretty dame good, I managed to do just on 200kph in my 1283P but that had major mods, 1300cc engine full flowed head, larger 38mm valves , PBS Race cam, twin 40mm DCOE carbs, full 4 into 1 extracters, and a race exhaust, and I saw 9500rmp from that engine, with a standard but fully shotpenned lightened and balanced bottom end. To see 10000rpm I would need the forged conrods and the flash crankshaft.


Slapp

 

[Dunc Uno Turbo]

145mph on the clock (on a private road) in 5th nearing the rev limiter at 7200rpm ish

oooohhh yeah, kinda not a fire lump hehe

Dunc

 

[DoctorDeath]

I travel the hazardous potholed roads of SA covering around 7000km per month.
My stock standard 1100 Fire does 140-150kph daily over long distances without prob's. Current odo reading at 145000km.
Here's a pic from my cellphone at around 160kph on a level stretch of road. (A bit of a bumpy ride tho...)
Just keep the motor well maintained and it should last well.

 

[unoracer]

Uno sohc Power!!

My little uno racer is currently having further mods done this week, in time hopefully for Cadwell on 15th July: 1498cc block, fully lightened/balanced, +6 oversize pistons, full race head inc 40mm inlets, gas flowed,ported, 11:1 comp ratio, piper full race 320 deg cam, twin 45 webers, should realistically make 175bhp at flywheel. (Was previously 158bhp with standard head and twin 40's and milder cam) Looking to show some non italian racers how deceptive these little screamers are!!

 

[CyberMunky]

Well the other day I banged 155KpH on a straight and I believe I could have easily gone faster! Go Uno!

 

[SuperUno]

Not a top speed one this, but was out on the Drystone road rally over the weekend, and at the petrol halt we were 9th O/A in the 999cc Uno, beating 2 ltr Escorts and Scoobies, shame we got two punctures as this wiped out soo much time, we still came in 20th O/A and 13th in class after we lost a load of time and had to take it easy as we had no spares left.

 

[alexGS]

Excellent!

It WAS a shame about the punctures, wasn't it?
What size tyres do you run? 165/70 13s?
I would imagine that 'high profile' is the order of the day for rallies.

jjhepburn still keeps beating me in his Uno 60 - an even more conclusive victory in the Autocross than the Motorkhana... proof that it's not the car, it's the skill of the driver. You obviously have it, to run with cars like that.

-Alex

 

[SuperUno]

I was running 165/70's, as for the skills, not sure about that, experience gathered from lots of events, one thing i can do is remove my brain and keep my foot down when other lift. Also the Uno can handle and brakes well, and this meant i could catch 205Gti's on rougher tarmac roads

 

[The Sultan]

i had 107 mph out of my uno start ie 45bhp i believe fiat have prety acurate speedoes i have seen astras doing 10 to 15 less than what they say they are

 

[Dragyth]

M'dad's 45S showed 90mph, and that was at a cruise on the motorway!
I got 93 out of my Citroen AX... just, and the Uno has like 10% more torque... it stands to reason that the Uno, when thrashed, should do around 100miphhh.

Hey, if you drop to 4th, it'll do 92mph I believe, and 90mph in 5th, but I wouldn't reccomend trying 100+ in 4th!

My AX was a right laugh.
4 gears, none of them any good... it still picked up 0-25mph well due to it's 690kg weight. SIX HUNDRED AND NINETY, probably as quick as the UT doing the famous 0-25mph sprint

 

[Dragyth]

UT speedo is 7% wrong.
45S I reckon is 5-6% wrong, so you were actually doing like 102mph... my AX's speedo was about right I believe...

put 15s on a UT, at 70mph it's doing 69mph. That's pretty accurate.

 

[the mk1 kid]

My diesel 1.5 non turbo saxo does 99.5mhp!! It wont hit 100! lol I have only tried on two occasions as i dont think it likes it very much

A friends 60s hit 115 wind and a gentle slope assisted..

Tom

 

[Rob-mint-mk1-uno]

My very first car was a uno 45's, i remember being 4 up and hitting well over a ton in it down the link road which is down hill thou, the car felt like it was gonna take off so light at that speed... lol

 

[Chas Uno]

My very first car was a uno 45's, i remember being 4 up and hitting well over a ton in it down the link road which is down hill thou, the car felt like it was gonna take off so light at that speed... lol

I saw 110mph in my '86 Uno FIRE only a couple of months back! Northbound on the M40, near the Prices Risburough turn off. HUGE and very long down hill stretch, and without realising it I was touching the mid 90's a third of the way down, so I thought what the hell, foot to the floor and see what it would do.

Touched 110mph before I hit the bottom, at which point it went up hill a bit and the speed dropped back to just below 100mph.

Uno 45's - surprises come in small packages

 

[costis28]

I was driving my 1990 fiat uno 999cc fire south on the M25. Between A3 and M23 at 3am this morning and I got her upto 106MPH. As soon as she go that high she started loosing power and i had to drop to 70 for the rest of the journey. lol

hey i have the same in greese managed to get about 150 in an streight got an problem with the monopoint system keeps like loosing power dunno how much they are but never loose any oil ever