monkeyman
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A couple of friends of mine are putting together a tiny track car. I seem to be spanner monkey. Be good to get it on track this year as it is difficult for us all to get to the "workshop" at the same time. I'll document the progress as it happens.The awesome history of the 90's 500
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The Cinquecento was available in one body style only, a small, angular 3-door hatchback, with a favorable drag coefficient of only 0.33 that bore similariies to the Lancia Y10. It featured several advances compared to older Fiat city cars, including independent suspension both in the front and in the rear similar to the FIAT Tipo, front disc brakes, side impact bars along with crumple zones incorporated in the design and galvanized body panels to fend off corrosion. Steering was by rack and pinion, and although power steering was never offered, the car could be ordered with a number of extras, including central locking, power windows, sunroof (or full-length retractable canvas roof in the Soleil version) and even air conditioning.
The shell had a lot of stuff already stripped, it was someone else's track project before.
Some of the junk to remove
Wiring loom was removed without any cutting
Stripped interior, with roll cage tryout
The new engine is a Fiat 1.4 unit about 100 bhp before mods. It will have a new exhaust and induction initially, internals will be for the future.
This was picked up from a local company that does gearbox designing, surplus : )
Removing sound damping and underseal. I thought it was better to keep it on, but it weighs quite a bit. 90's Fiats are hopefully pretty rustproof
We're hoping to get the final weight down to about 750 Kg
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Posted 24th Mar 2009 at 00:07
My first thoughts exactly. 
Where abouts are you as I may be near enough to sit outside your lock up drumming my fingers on the door!!
