Cinquecento Update.

[Guest]

Hopefully it will give me more power coming out of those cornors, or thats what I want anyways.

[charlie Fett]

Hopefully it will give me more power coming out of those cornors, or thats what I want anyways.

[charlies lil helper]

im sure it will your gettin more power and it will make a big diffrents just need to get in on the r/r

[charlie Fett]

Yeah, hopefully I can get it on the rollers next Feb 

[charlies lil helper]

yer then hopefuly ill be driving by then and try to get a car so i can go lol or i will just take mums mondeo but it would be nice to see wat the punto engine will be doing

[charlie Fett]

Well before it goes in it's gonna be all broken down and cleaned up so that I have a bit of peace of mind knowing that it's ok. I think that's the best way forward.

[charlie Fett]

Well I thought I would break down my 1242 ready for Paul to work his magic on it and found the block to be in a bad state of repair!   I tried to turn the crank to set it to top dead centre and it didn't want to budge. I was hoping it had not seized but after I had taken off the head it looked as though it had. Piston 1 is stuck with loads of hardened oil and muck the liners have patches surface rust valves 1 and 2 are also caked in thick carbon and oil. I know that the engine had been left standing for some time and this is the result. But I have bought another one off Fiat forum which comes with everything so I aim to pick that up at the weekend, I figured it would cost as much to replace the other bits for the other engine so I bought this instead.

[charlies lil helper]

ouch  wat a bummer but aleast you manged to get another one

[charlie Fett]

yeah I am £220 lighter than I was this morning 

[charlies lil helper]

fiats still living up to there name and draining your cash  

[halfpint]

yup the fix it again tomorrow bug has struck again. good thing u got the other one charlie.

[olgit]

 I fink we should all sell up and go and buy mountain bikes 

[halfpint]

nah that wat keeps it interesting martin. we'd be bored stiff with no engine tinkering.

[charlie Fett]

or peddle cars 

[charlie Fett]

Well the weekend went well picking up all my bits from the guy on FF, I paid £300 and I got a complete 1242 with everything still attached and I mean every thing , gearbox, alternator, starter motor inlet manifold and even the whole wiring loom. A set of 5 Alfa Sud ltd ed compo 13 inch alloys with 165/55R13 Perrelli tyres all in good nik, and a set of rear limo black rear windows AND   a rear defuser. The best £300 I have spent in a long time   can't wait to get the engine put in the car in August  

[halfpint]

looks like you did ur xmas shopping early charlie, hope it all goes smoothly and ready for combe in sept.