Gavin-T
New member
Hi early next year me and some friends are driving 5000 miles round europe in 7 days in 899cc cinquecentos for charity (their idea, bloody good'un too ). My mum has had a few of these before so i know a bit about them but i want to know a bit more.Tried searching the forum for things but failed to find what i want.
Fingers crossed i have sourced a car (off this forum, 'r' reg 899 sx with 52k) will it have a temp gauge on it? What sort of speed will the car happily cruise and what revs will the engine be pulling? Im hoping to be able to maintain 75-80mph so would upping from 145/70 tyres to 165/65 help by lowering the overall revs or would it struggle because of the increase?
Also with us having to drive 16+ hours a day at speed keeping the engine cool seems like a issue to me.Im thinking about opening the front bumper up for maximum airflow to the radiator and possibly a small oil cooler too?
As many ideas and telling us about possible problems would be great.
Cheers.
Gav.
Fingers crossed i have sourced a car (off this forum, 'r' reg 899 sx with 52k) will it have a temp gauge on it? What sort of speed will the car happily cruise and what revs will the engine be pulling? Im hoping to be able to maintain 75-80mph so would upping from 145/70 tyres to 165/65 help by lowering the overall revs or would it struggle because of the increase?
Also with us having to drive 16+ hours a day at speed keeping the engine cool seems like a issue to me.Im thinking about opening the front bumper up for maximum airflow to the radiator and possibly a small oil cooler too?
As many ideas and telling us about possible problems would be great.
Cheers.
Gav.