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Cinquecento Cinquecento sporting Abarth...

Introduction

Hi ,
Ive done it again , I now own my second cinquecento .. so now i own a 1242 8v "sx" which some of you may know ...
i seen it advertised for sale in the classifieds so spoke to the lad selling it , arraged a date to view it 740 miles later , theres 2 cinquecentos sitting on my drive

got it home , Replaced the bat, ( tryed starting it when we picked it up but it was dead so had to jump start it with leads ) With the new bat on it started first turn of the key ,
also gave the Rear arches/ boot floor a Good coat of wax oil , to help it stop rusting , as its Sold as 100% rust free ,,, just found a little bit on the back arch , so addressed that asap :)

also the front brakes seem a bit poor . so started giveing them a good clean :) just need to get another tyre to put on my alloys then its mot time

bit of specs on the car ...( Ripped from the Advert)

A nice, tastefully modified Cinquecento Sporting Abarth. She has been on the forum for a long long while now and i hope she continues to be. I have owned her since December ‘07. Car is mad cheap to insure and is group 2. Small, nippy and easy to park and drive. LOW MILAGE! Only 64,000 miles! I ride a bike almost all year round. Registered in the last year of the cinquecento before the seicento. Car is registered in ’98 on an R plate. I put brand new bilstein shocks and eibach springs, the original dampers were knackerd but i still have the original springs.
Most of her history is in pictures on the forum due to her FF owners, and she has been spoilt rotten. I have a massice thick folder of history. Anyway, here is the list of mods:

Exterior:

-100% RUST FREE!
-Bodywork and paint in original factory Imola blue and in great condition
- Genuine Fiat Abarth (stamped) front and rear bumpers, side skirts and spoiler with brake light.
- Black vinyled B pillars
- 3 x 13" speedline Alloys (see below)
-Rare 14” Punto Abarth speedline Alloys
- Bilstein gas charged shocks
- Eibach -35mm lower springs
- Janspeed Stainless steel exhaust
- Red dot front discs
-Pressed numberplate

Interior:

- Black seat belts instead of standard red ones (clash with leather)
- A sunroof that doesn't leak!
- Full Leather Interior; front and rear seats, door cards and gear stick gaitor.
- Abarth Steering wheel.
- Abarth tax disc holder
- Abarth mats

Engine:

Runs beautifully, one of the things that most impressed me about this car. The FIRE series engine still runs like a sewing machine and never let me down.

- Polished rocker cover.
- Magnecor 85mm HT Leads
- Sparco Adjustable strut brace.
- 1108cc with 1240 P60 head
- Punto 75 cam
- 40mm webber Throttle body
- ECU is McCritch chipped
- Beautifull one-off Italian Performance Carbon Fibre Induction Kit
- Thatcham Cat.1 Toad Alarm Ai 606
- Remote Central Locking.
- Car is de-cat but i have a cat for MOTs

- pioneer front speakers, tweeters on a-pillars and infinity 6x9s.
- Spare wheel and original tool kit

Well spent Almost all day today ( 26 feb) doing Wash, Dry , clay with quick detailer, Wash, Dry , Polish with auto glym super resin , poorboys black hole , Poor boys Spr ( i think it was) , then One layer of wax , need to do another one tomorrow morning , but as it is its Shiny ,
Now Blue is off the Road ive Got a couple of plans up my Sleve ..

Cosmetic looks ..

Smooth The abarth Kit ?? or keep it as it is with the ridges in ...???

i like the Cinq i seen when some one put There Side repetors in the wingmirrors so that will be getting done

going to Retint my rewindows. as there there a little Creased as i done them my self ..

Buy a Tinted sinstrip that fades out for the windscreen

Refurb Both sets of wheels , ( Speedlines Will be getting something silly done to them along the lines of my checked wheels but diffrent ) and my sei abarths will be getting Refurbed in a Sort of Standard silver but just a little bit darker

Goning to send my coilovers away to get refurbed or try and find another set for sale ( so i can go lower)
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Fit my Wider Abarth Wide arch kit ( what i had on my old cinq)

Smooth The Washer jet Out the bonnet and Fit some Golf washerjets in to the Scuttle pannel , Also smooth the Bonnet badge out

Interior

Try and get my leather seats repaired , were the cracking get the White cracks filled in with some sort of Red die

Get a new Rooflineing and Retrim in in a black fabric again as its hangingin little bits ...

buy some (**** fogot what you call it Don had it on his ) and do the Dash binical in it

Make a boot build to house the Sub in the spare wheel wheel and wrap it all in Red leather

Engine
big Plans :p but will be staying 8V for now
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Bay will be getting cleaned up Some Wires hidden

get every thing Looking New and Clean
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Looking at some Diffrent wheels for her :) i Realy want a set of MO`5s but cant find a set with in my price range , but i have allso seen on darude (sorry if spelt wrong ) that his sister has some Steffans wheels what ive been looking at , but unsure if they fit of not , but now i see they do :) thats also on my list
 
Got a Good start on the Engine Buld today , Striped the engine down to check if the Rings are buggered and check the bearings and such

What would people do im wanting to get a Fiat headgasket , or would people just go for a (parts factors) one ? as theres one on ebay for 44 pound with fiat head bolts and gasket kit ,
or for 20 odd pound theres a unbraded one (http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/FIAT-SEICENTO-PUNTO-HEAD-GASKET-AND-BOLT-SET-8-VALVE-/140483385971?pt=UK_CarsParts_Vehicles_CarParts_SM&hash=item20b5765a73)

advise Please people??? @Leecook @delarue blu73
 
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you wanna get a oem head gasket.. If your local motor factors can't supply genuine ones I know shop4parts have genuine fiat HG's, Fluffy will do too. The rest of the gaskets aren't so major and can be pattern ones rather than genuine if you want to save a bit of cash but the oem ones are clearly a bit better and will prob last longer.

A good rule of thumb though is if there is high pressures involved, use genuine, if not cheapy one or home-made will do.
 
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you wanna get a oem head gasket.. If your local motor factors can't supply genuine ones I know shop4parts have genuine fiat HG's, Fluffy will do too. The rest of the gaskets aren't so major and can be pattern ones rather than genuine if you want to save a bit of cash but the oem ones are clearly a bit better and will prob last longer.

A good rule of thumb though is if there is high pressures involved, use genuine, if not cheapy one or home-made will do.

yep was thinking about the fiat one as it will be better and hopefully last longer ,
 
aye i not used one, heard good things about payen gaskets - also spesso ones. I never felt the need to buy one over an oem one though as they are more expensive.. Bearing in mind the old cinq tubby ran an oem gasket and 20+psi of boost and never popped a HG once in 10's of thousands of miles.
 
started The strip down of the old engine :) while every thing is off im going to Polish my allready shiney rocker cover up even more :)

Once my wage comes in im going to buy buying a headgasket kit , and some NEW valves , and start striping the head down , clean all the oil off it , by chemical bath ( or something similar , while im doing all that , I will Port my inlet side (i know i good engine tuner just down the road from me ,that will be able to flow bench it for me

im going to try and get high 90 bhp out of it , i got 86 out my old engine , with a bit more work i think 90 is easily possible
Leecook, can you remember what that program was me and you were playing about with trying to remap our ecus ? , as my friend has a chip reader what im going to "borrow" and use his skills to help make my chip up
 
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