MikeFellows
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| posted on 14/3/11 at 03:31 PM |
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T66 - Fiat 126
Pictures in the photo archive look amazing.
sorry if you already posted the details, but what are your plans (im guessing to make it looks similar to the blue/white one in your archive) for the
car?
what engine are you running, what drive train and gear box did you go for?
have you driven one with a RWD conversion?
I could ask a million questions, I absolutely love it!
Mike
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nick205
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| posted on 14/3/11 at 03:34 PM |
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+1 great project
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MikeCapon
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| posted on 14/3/11 at 03:47 PM |
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It's all on the Retropower website.
A good read.
Cheers,
Mike
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MikeFellows
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| posted on 14/3/11 at 03:49 PM |
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quote:
Originally posted by MikeCapon
It's all on the Retropower website.
A good read.
Cheers,
Mike
Thanks!
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Mike S
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| posted on 14/3/11 at 04:38 PM |
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"have you driven one with a RWD conversion?"
126's are rear engine, rear wheel drive in standard form.
Just that they have a small twin cylinder air cooled engine that makes 3 parts of sod all power.
However, I had one brand new when they first came out as my first car in about 1973. Did massive mileage, thashed it to death but loved it all the
same. 
Would like to do one with a bike engine conversion though.
Mike S
There are more horses' asses in this world than there are horses
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T66
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| posted on 14/3/11 at 05:25 PM |
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Pleased you like....
Been speaking with Nat today, and the rolling shell should be ready to collect maybe next week if I can fit it in. I dont have a tow hitch fitted to
the car at the minute, but have a trailer, so still looking about.
I am bringing the car back North so I can do the wiring ( ) the exhaust manifold , and gearchange. The head needs to come off the engine , a couple
of helicoils are required in the plug holes, brakes and a number of other jobs...
Then it goes back down the road for the final paint and finish.
The engine is a TTS built 2001 Honda Blackbird efi, with a Rotrex C30-84 running off the end of the crank, balance shafts removed, Van Diemen dry
sumped, Snow water & meth system. JE pistons , Carillo rods, 1195cc kit, flowed head bla bla bla
Latest information received is it was the spare engine of two built , and dyno @ 330bhp - so is fairly pokey.
Nat tells me today, with the engine out the car its so light he moves it round the workshop like a wheelbarrow, or gets inside it and stands up to
move it around.....turtle in a halfshell (sorry Nat)
The car will stay white, I have just ordered a set of grey CXRs, and it will get some discrete Abarth badging.
My learning curve continues to steepen, so standby here please for lots of daft questions from me....
Ivan
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Guinness
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| posted on 14/3/11 at 05:44 PM |
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Ivan
If you get stuck I've got a hitch on the tin top and I'm relatively free next week if you want a road trip?
Mike
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T66
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| posted on 14/3/11 at 07:35 PM |
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quote:
Originally posted by Guinness
Ivan
If you get stuck I've got a hitch on the tin top and I'm relatively free next week if you want a road trip?
Mike
Cheers Mike !!!
Top offer - will keep you posted. There may be 2 of us (my son in law is desperate for a nose at retropower)
Im off wed/thurs/fri but my shifts may need chopping about , and also to keep her indoors smiling aswell lol.
The trailer gets pulled with a Golf, so not one of these huge jobbies for 4x4 only...
Locost is the dergs knerb...
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