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Cinquecento PEX - my return to cinq ownership

Stripped, caged track toy

Introduction

Well I've been out of the cento game a fair while now but yesterday I went and picked up PEX to start a new cento adventure.

Sure many will know him already, I'm not going to go into every single detail in this first post. But a quick rundown: it's fully stripped inside, buckets, harnesses, custom cage. It's on avo coilovers, had pgt3 front brakes, Oz racing wheels. Arch extensions, skirts, lancia delta bonnet vent, zender spoiler, carbon front splitter. Engines a wolf racing engine, which is a 1242 block, the rotating assembly has all been balanced and has a knife-edged crank with a lightened flywheel. A ported and flowed p75 head, I believe cam is a reground 866. Intake is a carbon dexcraft bob with BMC CDA. Exhaust is a 421 manifold, custom mid section with 200 cell high flow cat and a sportex centre exit back box. It's painted white and blue with red bumpers and bodykit, with martini inspired stripes and loads of decals. Think that covers most the general things about it.

Don't have a set plan for it, was all rather an impromptu and unplanned acquisition lol.

Feels good to be in a cinq again!

More pics soon ;)
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Well time to fess up, having decided to keep my late mother's abarth I needed to get rid of a car and that put all the cars in the firing line tbh but in end it's the cinq that's gone.
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Sad times, but it's for the best, I don't have the space and time for it. In the end I've done a deal with a MOT failure Ignis which I can sort out and put up for sale with minimum effort.

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There won't be a thread or anything as it's not staying.

On the plus side, this deal was done with Ben that owns the other cinq Charlie that built Pex owned - is in safe hands and no likely you can follow his YouTube to see what happens. But I'm told his little'uns have already been sat in it making race car noises lol.
 
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Really enjoyed the last couple of videos on YouTube - hope he keeps them coming. Very envious of the amount of parts you threw in with the deal!
 
Really enjoyed the last couple of videos on YouTube - hope he keeps them coming. Very envious of the amount of parts you threw in with the deal!
well I had been amassing stuff for a while, there is pretty much everything there to build it except an exhaust. Well, there is an oem 16v manifold and the exhaust Pex had. The plan was to get a nice manifold and have an exhaust made for it. But other than that all Ben needs is tyres, service stuff for the engine and painting stuff. Will be a really awesomely spec'd little car once back together.
I really wanted to replace the windows with better ones too, found who to get them from and everything but never got around to paying for them
 
well I had been amassing stuff for a while, there is pretty much everything there to build it except an exhaust. Well, there is an oem 16v manifold and the exhaust Pex had. The plan was to get a nice manifold and have an exhaust made for it. But other than that all Ben needs is tyres, service stuff for the engine and painting stuff. Will be a really awesomely spec'd little car once back together.
I really wanted to replace the windows with better ones too, found who to get them from and everything but never got around to paying for them
I am always on the look out for parts for my Cinquecento - it seems to be like a hobby these days. Had fun with the headlights to get it through its MOT last week....🤦‍♂️
I am sure Ben will do a great job and I do look forward to seeing it finally get on the road in one of his videos.
 
I am always on the look out for parts for my Cinquecento - it seems to be like a hobby these days. Had fun with the headlights to get it through its MOT last week....🤦‍♂️
I am sure Ben will do a great job and I do look forward to seeing it finally get on the road in one of his videos.
yeah that big box of seals he found in last video... that was because someone posted a pic of a cinq in a scrapyard on facebook and i recognised the yard and went and took so much off it.. engine bay plastics, all the door and window seals, dash buttons and switches etc etc. Was a pretty big haul and only cost me £70.
Somewhere in that stash is also NOS genuine clips that hold the headlights in, the yellow ones in the slam panel. And when i seen decent headlights for sale i bought them even though Pex's are basically brand new anyway lol.
I legit went through my garage and stuffed everything i came across into boxes at random and put in the car, the only thing i have left is a spare rear axle and thats just cause its not really accessible where it is - if he needs on one day though he can have it lol.
Quite a few things came from Ben in first place too, the dash is from Ben for example, and the door pockets.
 
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