Cinquecento Update.

[Guest]

I think that I will use nylock nuts and bolts to hold my seat subframes together after nylocks are fairly tough  also today I ordered my new front discs (Black Diamond) from Larkspeed. They are the combi style and only cost me £127.00 including postage.

[charlie Fett]

I think that I will use nylock nuts and bolts to hold my seat subframes together after nylocks are fairly tough  also today I ordered my new front discs (Black Diamond) from Larkspeed. They are the combi style and only cost me £127.00 including postage.

[halfpint]

nice one charlie, hope the tank is sorted soon as well. must be driving you up a wall.

[charlie Fett]

Well I am glad to say that I got my car back at long last night  they have fixed the fuel tank leak and had to drill out a  bolt that had sheered off that was one of the securing bolts that held the tank in place to the rear beam. That was drilled out retapped and replaced with a new bolt, then they reshimmed my shims and installed my 866 cam. The car really does go like a bat out of hell and I am well impressed with this new mod. Now that the car is back I really can crack on working on it at the weekend thunderbirds r GO!

[purf]

Cars coming along well then man!

I saw you excellent sparco dished wheel - i was thinking of getting one but im not sure wether the boss and the dished wheel will bring the wheel too close to me to be comfortable. what have you found? I might go for a flat wheel, im not sure

i usually drive with the seat all the way back as im 6ft 1?

[halfpint]

glad you have the lil beasty back charlie. i know you were getting miffed it was taking so long. so we shall see if she flies like **** thru a goose in a few wks at combe action day.

purf, you should be fine with the dished steering wheel, a flat one may pose a bit of discomfort tho. it will be quite comfortable as charlie will tell you. he is tall as well and had my ripspeed steering wheel on his cinq for a while now.

[charlies lil helper]

good to here he's back on the road i bet the 866 cam added a bit extra bhp lol  

[charlie Fett]

Well I have had more goodies arrive today one I got from work which is a aerospace quality polycarbonate back rear window, I had to make a template last night from my spare rear boot lid I have already had work make the two rear windows as well.   Easy when you have the contacts. If anyone ever wants me to make up any templates up for free then just let me know seeing as I made these templates may as well share lolThe other I got from Larkspeed which is a set of Punto GT black diamond  combi drilled and grooved combi discs ready to go with my Punto GT calipers   and a set of Red Goodridge stainless braided brake hoses.
Last night I put on my deep dish Sparco wheel, so Purf I hope you can see that it would go well in your car from what you can see in the pics.
Oh sorry about the pic with my cat Janga in it, he just wanted to get involved in the fun  
So I have alot of work to catch up on and as I do I will give you all new pics to go with it.  
Stay groovie!

[halfpint]

she's looking the bees knees charlie. so where does the cat go? the engine? lol bigger than a hamster on a wheel will look ace when you get the buckets in. not long til combe so you will be able to open her up and let her fly.

[fullpint]

Do the GT capliers/discs just bolt straight on or do you need to do a few mods?

[charlie Fett]

Do the GT capliers/discs just bolt straight on or do you need to do a few mods?

Yep they just bolt straight onto your brake brackets but your car does need to be running on 14 inch rims and not stock 13's 

[charlies lil helper]

hehe charlie if u ever need to use a brake hose clamp i got 1 that i made at college lol that wheel looks lush and once u get the brakes on it will stop on a penny  

[Charlies lil helpers gf]

 :goodjob that wheel looks great! lol luvin the fact that janga is in the photo too! is he ur new model now lol x x  :hyper

[charlie Fett]

Well today I have been busy stripping out both seats, harnesses and clened up the floor of the car and got rid of all the dirt and took off my black anti slip strips as well. Got the old paint out and repainted the floor as well as giving the calipers a nice coat of red paint.

[halfpint]

that looks much better charlie, specially after geting the roll cage in and scratching it all up.

[charlie Fett]

yeah I agree  just got to wait for the paint to go off and once it has I will apply the last top coat and then put the stainless floor plates and the Sparco seats