Technical 1999 marea 1.6 16v problems.

[Snapper235]

Hi all,
I've recentley bought a Fiat Marea weekend 1.6 16v and although on the whole I'm very happy with it there's a few problems that are worrying me.

The biggest one is there seems to be a sort of rasping/ratling noise when accelerating, more so in 4th and 5th gears. Also acceleration seems very poor in 4th and 5th gears. Fuel consumption seems quite high to.
My first instinct is the clutch but to be honest I don't know.

Can anyone help me out with this?
Cheers

 

[hagar]

do you know if it has had a cam belt before you brought it and if so did they get the timing right as noise could be engine timing out and would account for poor acceleration