I've posted this on some other forums and completely forgot to put it here. Oops.
Originally this was to be a Panda project but Oldschool convinced me that what I really needed was a stripped out Cinq because they're lighter. And he had three. Or four. Or twelve. It's hard to know the exact figure at any given moment. His Cinq shell habit is more out of control than my Toyo R888 habit.
Anyway, the argument for Cinq was compelling for a few reasons. One, it was already stripped almost bare and two it was on the back of a transporter on its way to my house as we were speaking. So you know, it seemed a decent plan.
Anyway, a few hours ago The Man with The Van arrived on my doorstep with a cage. A cage which had previously arrived at my place of work from OMP in Italy. It sat at reception, annoying the front desk staff for a week while I tried to figure out how to get it in the back of a lounge spec 500. Ultimately work rang and told me that I had to remove it or they'd find a way to insert it in me. So, I bit the bullet and found a man with a van. Who was vastly more efficient than me, the man with a vague plan.
It didn't actually arrive that way. It arrived taped together with a ferocity I've never seen before. If I could find the guy who taped this thing together I could get him to tape the thing into the car and I wouldn't need a welder. It took me the better part of an hour to unpack it.
The plan is for the cage to be welded into Track Lemon next week. Which brings me neatly on to Track Lemon herself:
I know, she's hot, you can drool.
Once back from welding Track Lemon will have a shiny new engine
and gearbox
installed. Mmm shiny new engine. I got the engine and gearbox with 74 miles on them from a guy who works for a powertrain development company. They buy Fiat's for development mules and have no need for the engines/gearboxes.
It's a 1.4 Fiat starjet from a Grande Punto. Out of the box I think it has something like 95-100 hp and 90-95 lb/ft of torque in standard spec. I want to pull it to bits and go for some serious mods but for now we'll get her running with the standard engine (but everyone should feel free to convince Oldschool that supercharging it would be a good plan).
Even with standard power, in such a lightweight beast it should still be plenty of fun. I have a similar engine in my Fiat 500 with twice the weight and that's lively enough on the track.
I also have a set of Eibach springs, a powerflex ploybush kit and an OMP suede steering wheel for her as well. They're at work at the moment so no pics handy but I'll be bringing them home soon. I'm also putting the Quaife ATB from the group buy thread into the mix. Mmm traction.
I haven't really thought about exhaust yet. I imagine that'll be a case of trailer it around to Torque Exhausts or similar and say 'go nuts as long as its under 95db so I can take it on any track'. Plumbing and assorted other bits are in the process of being discussed now. GSR induction kit of course. Oldschool has a lightweight kevlar seat to tip into the mix as well.
Questions, comments, rude remarks all welcome
Originally this was to be a Panda project but Oldschool convinced me that what I really needed was a stripped out Cinq because they're lighter. And he had three. Or four. Or twelve. It's hard to know the exact figure at any given moment. His Cinq shell habit is more out of control than my Toyo R888 habit.
Anyway, the argument for Cinq was compelling for a few reasons. One, it was already stripped almost bare and two it was on the back of a transporter on its way to my house as we were speaking. So you know, it seemed a decent plan.
Anyway, a few hours ago The Man with The Van arrived on my doorstep with a cage. A cage which had previously arrived at my place of work from OMP in Italy. It sat at reception, annoying the front desk staff for a week while I tried to figure out how to get it in the back of a lounge spec 500. Ultimately work rang and told me that I had to remove it or they'd find a way to insert it in me. So, I bit the bullet and found a man with a van. Who was vastly more efficient than me, the man with a vague plan.
It didn't actually arrive that way. It arrived taped together with a ferocity I've never seen before. If I could find the guy who taped this thing together I could get him to tape the thing into the car and I wouldn't need a welder. It took me the better part of an hour to unpack it.
The plan is for the cage to be welded into Track Lemon next week. Which brings me neatly on to Track Lemon herself:
I know, she's hot, you can drool.
Once back from welding Track Lemon will have a shiny new engine
and gearbox
installed. Mmm shiny new engine. I got the engine and gearbox with 74 miles on them from a guy who works for a powertrain development company. They buy Fiat's for development mules and have no need for the engines/gearboxes.
It's a 1.4 Fiat starjet from a Grande Punto. Out of the box I think it has something like 95-100 hp and 90-95 lb/ft of torque in standard spec. I want to pull it to bits and go for some serious mods but for now we'll get her running with the standard engine (but everyone should feel free to convince Oldschool that supercharging it would be a good plan).
Even with standard power, in such a lightweight beast it should still be plenty of fun. I have a similar engine in my Fiat 500 with twice the weight and that's lively enough on the track.
I also have a set of Eibach springs, a powerflex ploybush kit and an OMP suede steering wheel for her as well. They're at work at the moment so no pics handy but I'll be bringing them home soon. I'm also putting the Quaife ATB from the group buy thread into the mix. Mmm traction.
I haven't really thought about exhaust yet. I imagine that'll be a case of trailer it around to Torque Exhausts or similar and say 'go nuts as long as its under 95db so I can take it on any track'. Plumbing and assorted other bits are in the process of being discussed now. GSR induction kit of course. Oldschool has a lightweight kevlar seat to tip into the mix as well.
Questions, comments, rude remarks all welcome
