Introduction
July 2005 – The beginning
The date was the 19th July 2005, I’d had a argument with parents about engine swap in my Seicento which my step-Nan had funded, so decided I wasn’t going to let anything get in my way when I found a turbo cinq for sale on auto trader, so at a monumentous cost of £1,700 I owned a shed of a turbo cinq… (spot the seicento in drag strip mode lol borrowed tyres and std rims Lol)
Decided the wheels just didn’t suit the thing and fitted my Compomotive ml’s I had already and I also repaired the rear engine mount and fitted magnecors… all within the first month lol
August 2005 – The service/oil…stuff…
Bought a low temp fan switch, oil filter & oil, and oil cooler setup from think automotive (mocal) none of it fitted until september, except the rear engine mount bought in july… as it kind of fell apart driving around near a friends house… that’d be my first breakdown in it then technically?
September 2005 - Fuel filter, rocker cover gasket and first show!
Well started the month giving her the service she wanted, and sprayed a few goodies in the engine bay silver
All bling ready for first show, get there and have work on my hands before I’ve even parked up, oil all down the front bumper and all over the engine bay and dripping out of the bottom, oh no!
But luckily all was not lost, as I was at a fiat event! Sorted the problem as a not properly sealing rocker cover gasket, had instant gasket with me, along with a fresh gasket kicking about, so after a long time looking for the problem I set about fixing it… lots of interest yay, and also lots of criticism (easy to criticise plus give me a chance i've only had it a month!)
So all fixed, and it actually got voted the car peeps would most like to take home, ok so it was mostly my friends voting but heck a turbo cinq gets a lot of attention
Later that month….
Fiatforum weekender yay! Not much work done on car, 14’s went back on due to dodgy tread on the 13’s iirc, no actually was as winter wheels lol but well at the fiatforum weekender my car was vandalised and sunroof smashed so had a ducktape sunroof for a while lol
October 2005
Random interior pics showing off rear/steeringwheel/hormann pedals
started treating to the cinq of a solid days valeting… but I think the results really do speak for themselves
That pic really doesn’t do it justice, was immaculate! Although I found a problem with her suspension doh!... so on went the apex shocks and spax 60mm springs I had kicking about (well I think I left the rear a while though) only have a pic of the old shock… bit dead lol, this also meant the end of my winter wheels unfortunately, as it kind of sat well *on* the tyre…
Then took her down pod and she did a 16.8 down the strip
also decided to tint the rear lights…
Also replaced this month: Handbrake cable, rocker cover gasket, rear wiper blade, replaced sunroof which got smashed last month, oh and window seal which was torn
November 2005 – Fun, Games and manifolds!
German ebay brought me some gorgeous smoor’s 7x13 front and 8x13 back, also got 195/45/13 dunlop rubber fitted to them, so sexual! Trial fit (pre tyre) looked a bit daunting though… but I was sooo excited lol
Then disaster struck, as I was going to work, spotted temp at 110… steam pouring out of bonnet, so rushed to work (100 yards away) and rushed to park, in my haste stalled car into kerb (which with car being now -60mm was a lot higher than my bumper… and the manifold took the impact!!!!) so spent a lot of time (and calling in a lot of favours from my best mate who was running manifolds to/from van aaken, cheers alex!!!) sorting it all out
Got my new shiney manifold yay
Cinq looking sad and manifold/turbo-less
Oh what the fudge…. This isn’t right… oh sugar, studs are wrong!!!!!! (plus wasn’t happy as it still had the original divider in there… so mentioned that when sent it back)
while they were sorting that I set about finishing the new bumper I had lined up
But before I knew it my best mate and van aaken had a new shiney manifold ready to go on, and go on it did (he also left his mark.. cheers alex… or was it me… no pretty sure it was you lol)
and with that she ran once more yay! Oh and while this was all going on I fitted a 40mm Throttle body also (for those who don’t know cinqs, as opposed to a 30mm!)
also at the end of the month she snapped a coolant pipe bracket which holds the pipe into/onto the water pump fixing, so had that welded up (have pics of course but too many is a bad thing I guess lol) Full service whilst off the road too!
December 2005 – Merry Christmas!
Proper trial fit of the smoors, they looked so sexy, but stuck out so much I didn’t even bother moving it too much after lowering it onto wheels (hence rear being high) as I knew it was a lost cause but they did look good…
and on the 10th day of xmas my cinqy brought to meee… a friend clutch in a cinqeeeee missed a gear on a gearchange, then when went into gear, nothing, revved as if it was in neutral gutted…. So another ride on the breakdown truck… and what was waiting when I peeked into the inspection panel thingy on the gearbox… nice stuff falling out, friction material off my clutch
but 2 days later I was well on the case and had a EBC Fast road item in my possession… now I cheated with this because it was cold and I’ve done a clutch before, not silly enough to do it again in dead of winter lol
And she was back again, though shortly after someone did throw a trolley into her or something at tesco’s and cracked the filler out of the rear bumper… while she was getting clutch done I also got another yellow bonnet without the Scooby vent (thanks again to alex) it does have a ripple in it and a few dents but it looks 100x better imo
Also Christmas day came, and friend of mine (chris/bushboy) delivered smooth doors for me which I got off someone who was selling up
January 2006 – Happy new year!
Ran most of January with no probs, helping other members (arc!) with their cinqs when going to MK meet and things like that did however snap a front spring, so on went the koni’s with the dodgy shock temporarily, also don’d some standard cinq wheels in a stealth look while I decided to get my comomotives refurbished
Oh and also sold the smoors *sniffle* kept the tyres to go on refurb’d comomotives though
February 2006 – Hmm getting warmer… yay!
Black top part of dash now on instead of the white… what was he thinking!!! Lol also picked up uno turbo brake setup off a friend of mine, and new 60mm springs… fitted springs and top dash section oooh and yellow rear lights imported from germany! Cinq also got a service this month…
March 2006 – Yay getting even warmer lol!
Started the month painting the UT callipers yellow, and playing with a over charging alternator, so swapped that for another
little did I know my rear bushes job would be so eventful this month… snapped springs, snapped brake lines, also learnt how much of a damn pig those rear bushes are!!! Ended up doing a full rear arm rebuild both sides… but was worth it for the working handbrake lol
This job actually went through middle of march through to the start of april
April 2006 – Its my birthday this month woo
Carried on with job in hand, got the rear rebuild done, new everything, even back plates! Fitted with my 60mm rear springs also!
Then the pics once it was back on its wheels
Was really pleased with that! over the moon infact and my yellow samco’s had turned up too and were slowly getting fitted through april
Also had donny south that month but not happy with any pics from there lol so not posting them did get tints done there though! And well was happy with some pics from Brooklands Italian car day so have added this one shows how much she’s changed at the back anyway
May 2006 - Nothing… yes nothing…
Ok I don’t believe this, I didn’t do a thing in may, think I may have fitted 1 samco which wasn’t there before but not 100% only have pics of car itself not jobs being done… wow!
June 2006 – Gets interesting
Sprayed a load of my boost pipes etc black to contrast against the yellow samco’s
Also tried to fit my UT kit but that didn’t work need 6mm spacer inside the disc not 3mm spacer had my 3mm spacers done for this too, oh well, had problems fitting standard kit back on, also burst a braided hose when bleeding standard kit back on… so got a flexi for time being and had a new braided one made up in no time Oh and uno turbo single wiper conversion went on also
Oh and we also had Stanford hall Italian car day this month, will include my fav pic of the day of my cinqi just for good measure!
July 2006 – Decat time baby!
Ok absolutely nothing went wrong in july, but I did get the cinq its decat with swappable cat section just look how neat those welds are! and the noise… just has to be heard to be appreciated! Oh and I had a bit of a issue when up north when stopped off to see mog had a leaky fuel line which had been cut into by the hose clip easily replaced though
Ohhh and almost forgot also, she was showing at max power too in july with Fiatforum naturally lol
August 2006 – Holiday Time woo!
All I did on the cinq this month was drive it, had a mystery oil leak which turned out to be the oil filter hadn’t been fitted tight enough when I serviced it also showed the cinq at donny north! And took her on the sprint strip, good fun!
September 2006 – Nothing again
All I did on the cinq in September was buy a rocker cover gasket in preparation for my chrome/polished rocker cover! Went to the FF skeggy do with her again and no problems this time all sorted
October 2006 – Ooooh shiney
With help from mate (Si-Punto) got a snapped cam cover bolt out and fitted my polished/chrome rocker cover also had a issue the first weekend into oct with a snapped water pipe bracket and got this welded @ kwik-fit
November 2006 – Pod Pod Pod
Went down pod with the cinqi, got her new front and rear bumpers fitted, and well brings us up until today!
Today (22nd Nov) – Clean
And today she got a clean in the dark… but looks so shiney! And not even had a polish in a while so she’ll get one of those very soon lol
Turbo timer, smooth doors, uno turbo brake setup, door poppers and countless other bits all waiting to be fitted… and I will be getting them done all very shortly, ditto the oil cooler and setting up, but overall the future’s bright, the future’s a yellow turbo cinq
P.s. this isn’t a comprehensive list, its more of a photo diary so more work has been completed than given here, mainly small things I wouldn’t go taking pics of etc but will include everything like this in the future, as I’ll be keeping this thread updated much like duncs progress thread
The date was the 19th July 2005, I’d had a argument with parents about engine swap in my Seicento which my step-Nan had funded, so decided I wasn’t going to let anything get in my way when I found a turbo cinq for sale on auto trader, so at a monumentous cost of £1,700 I owned a shed of a turbo cinq… (spot the seicento in drag strip mode lol borrowed tyres and std rims Lol)
Decided the wheels just didn’t suit the thing and fitted my Compomotive ml’s I had already and I also repaired the rear engine mount and fitted magnecors… all within the first month lol
August 2005 – The service/oil…stuff…
Bought a low temp fan switch, oil filter & oil, and oil cooler setup from think automotive (mocal) none of it fitted until september, except the rear engine mount bought in july… as it kind of fell apart driving around near a friends house… that’d be my first breakdown in it then technically?
September 2005 - Fuel filter, rocker cover gasket and first show!
Well started the month giving her the service she wanted, and sprayed a few goodies in the engine bay silver
All bling ready for first show, get there and have work on my hands before I’ve even parked up, oil all down the front bumper and all over the engine bay and dripping out of the bottom, oh no!
But luckily all was not lost, as I was at a fiat event! Sorted the problem as a not properly sealing rocker cover gasket, had instant gasket with me, along with a fresh gasket kicking about, so after a long time looking for the problem I set about fixing it… lots of interest yay, and also lots of criticism (easy to criticise
plus give me a chance i've only had it a month!)
So all fixed, and it actually got voted the car peeps would most like to take home, ok so it was mostly my friends voting but heck a turbo cinq gets a lot of attention
Later that month….
Fiatforum weekender yay! Not much work done on car, 14’s went back on due to dodgy tread on the 13’s iirc, no actually was as winter wheels lol
but well at the fiatforum weekender my car was vandalised and sunroof smashed so had a ducktape sunroof for a while lol
October 2005
Random interior pics showing off rear/steeringwheel/hormann pedals
started treating to the cinq of a solid days valeting… but I think the results really do speak for themselves
That pic really doesn’t do it justice, was immaculate! Although I found a problem with her suspension doh!... so on went the apex shocks and spax 60mm springs I had kicking about (well I think I left the rear a while though) only have a pic of the old shock… bit dead lol, this also meant the end of my winter wheels unfortunately, as it kind of sat well *on* the tyre…
Then took her down pod and she did a 16.8 down the strip
also decided to tint the rear lights…
Also replaced this month: Handbrake cable, rocker cover gasket, rear wiper blade, replaced sunroof which got smashed last month, oh and window seal which was torn
November 2005 – Fun, Games and manifolds!
German ebay brought me some gorgeous smoor’s
7x13 front and 8x13 back, also got 195/45/13 dunlop rubber fitted to them, so sexual! Trial fit (pre tyre) looked a bit daunting though… but I was sooo excited lol
Then disaster struck, as I was going to work, spotted temp at 110… steam pouring out of bonnet, so rushed to work (100 yards away) and rushed to park, in my haste stalled car into kerb (which with car being now -60mm was a lot higher than my bumper… and the manifold took the impact!!!!) so spent a lot of time (and calling in a lot of favours from my best mate who was running manifolds to/from van aaken, cheers alex!!!
) sorting it all out
Got my new shiney manifold yay
Cinq looking sad and manifold/turbo-less
Oh what the fudge…. This isn’t right… oh sugar, studs are wrong!!!!!! (plus wasn’t happy as it still had the original divider in there… so mentioned that when sent it back)
while they were sorting that I set about finishing the new bumper I had lined up
But before I knew it my best mate and van aaken had a new shiney manifold ready to go on, and go on it did
(he also left his mark.. cheers alex… or was it me… no pretty sure it was you lol)
and with that she ran once more yay! Oh and while this was all going on I fitted a 40mm Throttle body also
(for those who don’t know cinqs, as opposed to a 30mm!)
also at the end of the month she snapped a coolant pipe bracket which holds the pipe into/onto the water pump fixing, so had that welded up (have pics of course but too many is a bad thing I guess lol) Full service whilst off the road too!
December 2005 – Merry Christmas!
Proper trial fit of the smoors, they looked so sexy, but stuck out so much I didn’t even bother moving it too much after lowering it onto wheels (hence rear being high) as I knew it was a lost cause
but they did look good…
and on the 10th day of xmas my cinqy brought to meee… a friend clutch in a cinqeeeee
missed a gear on a gearchange, then when went into gear, nothing, revved as if it was in neutral gutted…. So another ride on the breakdown truck… and what was waiting when I peeked into the inspection panel thingy on the gearbox… nice stuff falling out, friction material off my clutch
but 2 days later I was well on the case and had a EBC Fast road item in my possession… now I cheated with this because it was cold and I’ve done a clutch before, not silly enough to do it again in dead of winter lol
And she was back again, though shortly after someone did throw a trolley into her or something at tesco’s
and cracked the filler out of the rear bumper… while she was getting clutch done I also got another yellow bonnet without the Scooby vent (thanks again to alex) it does have a ripple in it and a few dents but it looks 100x better imo
Also Christmas day came, and friend of mine (chris/bushboy) delivered smooth doors for me which I got off someone who was selling up
January 2006 – Happy new year!
Ran most of January with no probs, helping other members (arc!) with their cinqs when going to MK meet and things like that
did however snap a front spring, so on went the koni’s with the dodgy shock temporarily, also don’d some standard cinq wheels in a stealth look while I decided to get my comomotives refurbished
Oh and also sold the smoors *sniffle* kept the tyres to go on refurb’d comomotives though
February 2006 – Hmm getting warmer… yay!
Black top part of dash now on instead of the white… what was he thinking!!! Lol also picked up uno turbo brake setup off a friend of mine, and new 60mm springs… fitted springs and top dash section
oooh and yellow rear lights imported from germany! Cinq also got a service this month…
March 2006 – Yay getting even warmer lol!
Started the month painting the UT callipers yellow, and playing with a over charging alternator, so swapped that for another
little did I know my rear bushes job would be so eventful this month… snapped springs, snapped brake lines, also learnt how much of a damn pig those rear bushes are!!! Ended up doing a full rear arm rebuild both sides… but was worth it for the working handbrake lol
This job actually went through middle of march through to the start of april
April 2006 – Its my birthday this month woo
Carried on with job in hand, got the rear rebuild done, new everything, even back plates! Fitted with my 60mm rear springs also!
Then the pics once it was back on its wheels
Was really pleased with that!
over the moon infact and my yellow samco’s had turned up too and were slowly getting fitted through april
Also had donny south that month but not happy with any pics from there lol so not posting them
did get tints done there though! And well was happy with some pics from Brooklands Italian car day so have added this one shows how much she’s changed at the back anyway
May 2006 - Nothing… yes nothing…
Ok I don’t believe this, I didn’t do a thing in may, think I may have fitted 1 samco which wasn’t there before but not 100% only have pics of car itself not jobs being done… wow!
June 2006 – Gets interesting
Sprayed a load of my boost pipes etc black to contrast against the yellow samco’s
Also tried to fit my UT kit but that didn’t work
need 6mm spacer inside the disc not 3mm spacer had my 3mm spacers done for this too, oh well, had problems fitting standard kit back on, also burst a braided hose when bleeding standard kit back on… so got a flexi for time being and had a new braided one made up in no time Oh and uno turbo single wiper conversion went on also Oh and we also had Stanford hall Italian car day this month, will include my fav pic of the day of my cinqi just for good measure!
July 2006 – Decat time baby!
Ok absolutely nothing went wrong in july, but I did get the cinq its decat with swappable cat section
just look how neat those welds are! and the noise… just has to be heard to be appreciated! Oh and I had a bit of a issue when up north when stopped off to see mog had a leaky fuel line which had been cut into by the hose clip easily replaced though
Ohhh and almost forgot also, she was showing at max power too in july
with Fiatforum naturally lol
August 2006 – Holiday Time woo!
All I did on the cinq this month was drive it, had a mystery oil leak which turned out to be the oil filter hadn’t been fitted tight enough when I serviced it
also showed the cinq at donny north! And took her on the sprint strip, good fun!September 2006 – Nothing again
All I did on the cinq in September was buy a rocker cover gasket in preparation for my chrome/polished rocker cover! Went to the FF skeggy do with her again and no problems this time
all sortedOctober 2006 – Ooooh shiney
With help from mate (Si-Punto) got a snapped cam cover bolt out and fitted my polished/chrome rocker cover
also had a issue the first weekend into oct with a snapped water pipe bracket and got this welded @ kwik-fit
November 2006 – Pod Pod Pod
Went down pod with the cinqi, got her new front and rear bumpers fitted, and well brings us up until today!
Today (22nd Nov) – Clean
And today she got a clean in the dark… but looks so shiney! And not even had a polish in a while so she’ll get one of those very soon lol
Turbo timer, smooth doors, uno turbo brake setup, door poppers and countless other bits all waiting to be fitted… and I will be getting them done all very shortly, ditto the oil cooler and setting up, but overall the future’s bright, the future’s a yellow turbo cinq
P.s. this isn’t a comprehensive list, its more of a photo diary so more work has been completed than given here, mainly small things I wouldn’t go taking pics of etc
but will include everything like this in the future, as I’ll be keeping this thread updated much like duncs progress thread 
