turbo?

[sammiboo]

Looking at getting a 500 or a 126, most likely to be a 500 if a can find one that isnt over 2k as a project car.

I thought it might be cool if I can turbo one, which ever i get it will be a fun car and will be for shows mostly.

Is it possible to turbo a 500? I wanted to leave the bodywork standard but do a few engine mods.

Any ideas would be great. It wont be for a while till i can get one though unless i find one thats insanely cheap!

 

[custard]

well it will be possible sammi,almost any car 'can' be turbo'd. since theres V6 500's then it should be doable.
whats the engine in the 500? wonder if you could drop the 1100 fire in there?theres a ready turbo'd engine in the classifieds

 

[sammiboo]

not sure, will have to do some research on this. I am in no rush cos i cant do anything until have got rid of the coupe.

 

[GhostWKD]

was a turbo 126 at brooklands custard had the smallest turbo i ever saw! was like a little baby turbo even compared to a T15

 

[bulldog5046]

not sure, will have to do some research on this. I am in no rush cos i cant do anything until have got rid of the coupe.

what happened to mr turbo bravo?

if the coupes going could i scab the engine for maybe mr turbo marea?

 

[custard]

what happened to mr turbo bravo?

if the coupes going could i scab the engine for maybe mr turbo marea?

you mean the non working marea, you would then be paying how much in insurance?

 

[sammiboo]

am still undecided about that... but i def want a 500.

I cant do anything with the engine yet, as the car has to stay where it is. hence why i cant put the wheels on my bravo.

 

[Puntoboy]

dont Uno Turbo engines fit in these?

 

[custard]

i wouldnt think so without mods,there tiny little cars.saw a black one on saturday and the cinq almost towers over it

 

[Puntoboy]

i'm sure a mid engined 500 with a UT engine will do nicely

 

[custard]

yes but then again they have done a v8 one following that route

 

[Puntoboy]

2 of them infact..

what was that company called, taz racing or something wasn't it?

 

[HP]

I'd imagine you will need to strengthen the chassis from front to back, fit wider wheels and tyres, plumb in a decent cooling system, a proper set of brakes and maybe even a roll cage for rigidity.

Would be good, but not cheap.

 

[faster4_tec]

cooling was a problem with NA 1.0l abarth jobs, so a turbo would likely melt the bodywork , afterall typical italian engineerring, engine got too hot so they made a prop to wedge the bonnet open for more air! genius ehh


if you go mid engined route (well they are sort of mid/rear already, depending how many crashs its had!) then almost anything will fit

 

[blu73]

I know of a very fast 500 that goes around the VW scene (because its VW powered). Don't know your opinion on such tinkering, i mean i think keeping it all italian is best IMO but if a fast 500 is what your after this guys must be one of the fastest there is. I will try find out some more about it.

 

[blu73]

Struggling a bit finding any info on the car but the guy is called Pete Englezos, his car is famous in air-cooled VW-land. I'm not fully up on my old Fiats but i don't thinks its a 500 after all.

Thats a 126 isn't it?
I have seen it go down santa pod and tbh i don't think i'd want to drive it, looks scarey as fook!!!
PS. thats quite a small wheel stand for that car!!!!!!!

EDIT: Pete Englezos works for a company called Cogbox (VW Race gearbox specialists incase your interested) 0208-842-2580.

 

[blu73]

Just been looking around and the 126 and the 500 shared the same 650cc air-cooled engine. So whatever has been done to the one i pictured before should theoretically be possible to do to a 500.

 

[-Matt-]

Thats a 600, it was a Brooklands Auto Italia a few years back, he said it was 180BHP without nitrous, you will never ever see anything go up the test hill that fast.

The 500, 600 and 126 had air cooled 2 cyl engines (Although there are water cooled ones). Your quite limited to Abarth parts, although there are some european companies that still sell different cams, inlet manifolds for twin carbs, ported heads etc

If you wanted to go really mad, you'd need an 850 engine bored to 1000. But then you'll need to water cool it, so, won't really work in a 500.

In this month's Auto Italia theres a story of this 595 Abarth, that, blew its engine. Now it has a 126 block bored out with some Abarth add ons like sump and cylinder head. It also uses Dino con rods, since the standard ones snapped.

I'll try and find the site with all the parts, theres alot of 1000TC, 595 and 695 replica's about, the parts are there, but some are not cheap at all. If you want to do it on the cheap its probably easier to slam a 2 litre Beetle engine in there.

Im trying to build a 1000TC replica (From a 600), but it looks like I need to goto Italy to get the source car

Hope that helped a bit