Well thats little yella put away in the garage until i have time to fix the clutch cable and while its there i will do the water pump ( very noisy ) and cam belt.
Im putting miles on the Alfa in the mean time but its not a bad place to be.
I'm guessing the MPI needs the shorter cable since it has (unless I'm wrong) a partly hydraulic setup. The SPi (or at least the Cinquecento which I guess is very similar/identical) only has a cable.