Right, Im not sure if anyone is intrested but Ive made this thread as a place to log my cars life/mods as time goes on.
My car was bought some time at the end of 08 with aprox 60K with 5months tax and mot and full history for £450 but a blown head gasket.
I replaced the gasket within 2 weeks of owning the car and it has ran perfectly ever since. only thing to go was a coil pack...
And a front shock last month which kicked off all my modding.
I replaced all 4 corners with Bilstein dampers and Apex Springs + fully polybushed and custom made fully stainless brake hoses.
the whole under side of the car was cleaned and stonechipped then painted and then coated with clear Waxoyl.
built myself a induction kit using the cap from a 899 cinq.
made new faces for the dials *LINK* and carpeted the rear wheel arches.
fitted window switches into the doors and filled the hole left in the dash with a vacume gauge.
...
Next I was looking for a P75 cam to fit so i started going around scrap yards.
Most of them tried to tell me ALL fiat engines where the same and tried to sell me any old crap.
I then came to one which has all the engines from the cars pre-removed and in a shelter. Armed with a list of engine numbers, rubbing down paper and a 10mm spanner I found me a p75 engine.
When I asked about the mileage they had the engine logged as only having 9k on it.
So the next day I took the engine from them for £100 and got a P60 SPI throttle body.
When I got the engine I jet washed it to remove the oil/dirt that it was covered in to find a PERFECT engine.
First I removed the throttle body and started matching the parts up from it onto the P60 TB to make a nice bit TB which I have now fitted to the 1.1 and love it :slayer:
....will finish this thread tomorrow....
Craig has now created a blog on his project cinq
see here for more info
My car was bought some time at the end of 08 with aprox 60K with 5months tax and mot and full history for £450 but a blown head gasket.
I replaced the gasket within 2 weeks of owning the car and it has ran perfectly ever since. only thing to go was a coil pack...
And a front shock last month which kicked off all my modding.
I replaced all 4 corners with Bilstein dampers and Apex Springs + fully polybushed and custom made fully stainless brake hoses.
the whole under side of the car was cleaned and stonechipped then painted and then coated with clear Waxoyl.
built myself a induction kit using the cap from a 899 cinq.
made new faces for the dials *LINK* and carpeted the rear wheel arches.
fitted window switches into the doors and filled the hole left in the dash with a vacume gauge.
...
Next I was looking for a P75 cam to fit so i started going around scrap yards.
Most of them tried to tell me ALL fiat engines where the same and tried to sell me any old crap.
I then came to one which has all the engines from the cars pre-removed and in a shelter. Armed with a list of engine numbers, rubbing down paper and a 10mm spanner I found me a p75 engine.
When I asked about the mileage they had the engine logged as only having 9k on it.
So the next day I took the engine from them for £100 and got a P60 SPI throttle body.
When I got the engine I jet washed it to remove the oil/dirt that it was covered in to find a PERFECT engine.
First I removed the throttle body and started matching the parts up from it onto the P60 TB to make a nice bit TB which I have now fitted to the 1.1 and love it :slayer:
Craig has now created a blog on his project cinq
see here for more info
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