Fiat 131 loveliness - Page 2

spyder · 10th December 2016, 19:25

My Lancia Zagato had the 132 motor in it with 2nd stage cams, the biggest problem was pulling away without wheel spin. Pulling away and turning, that was another story.

As for the Abarth.

Saga Lout · 10th December 2016, 19:47

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Originally Posted by spyder

My Lancia Zagato had the 132 motor in it with 2nd stage cams, the biggest problem was pulling away without wheel spin. Pulling away and turning, that was another story.

As for the Abarth.

I had a friend in the 1980's called Glenn, he was a tuner and did heads of differing stages. He built a 132 motor to stage 3 and grafted into a Polski Fiat, painted it Green and put the Red star on the doors. It was incredible and left many performance cars standing. I think about it and smile, he did me a 2.1 Pinto head for a MK2 Escort, that was a lot of fun in a car that looked battered...

spyder · 10th December 2016, 19:54

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Originally Posted by Saga Lout

I had a friend in the 1980's called Glenn, he was a tuner and did heads of differing stages. He built a 132 motor to stage 3 and grafted into a Polski Fiat, painted it Green and put the Red star on the doors. It was incredible and left many performance cars standing. I think about it and smile, he did me a 2.1 Pinto head for a MK2 Escort, that was a lot of fun in a car that looked battered...

Both the 131 & 132 with a down draught carb go really well, stick a manifold on with twin or 4 side draughts, that are properly balanced and they can go, Um quite well.

The other advantage is that a cam-belt takes a 1/2 hour to replace and cost peanuts to do.

willshot · 10th December 2016, 19:55

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An Abarth in Alitalia colours, wonderful. Best livery for this car.

spyder · 10th December 2016, 20:06

My first car was a Fiat 600, is that a 500 in the photo? with suicide doors. I fitted a 850cc, mated to the 600 gearbox, Abarth exhausts and carbs on it. it was interesting to drive in the wet.

I could change the clutch in 20 minutes and CV joints in about the same-I did this quite often actually.

We also had a 850 supercharger that bolted on basically off an 850 abarth sprort, never did fit it though.

Stewbacca · 12th December 2016, 08:09

Back in 1985 my very first car was a 131 supermirafiori. I later had the 131 Sport. Loved those cars...

neilb740 · 12th December 2016, 10:30

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I too remember cars like this piled high in our local scrappy. .

They were only piled high because they had swept all the rusty flakes into a heap

70's/80's Fiats weren't known as "egg timers" for nothing.

Buy your new Fiat and put an egg on to boil. Soft boiled was when the first rust spot appeared, hard boiled was a hole big enough to get your fist through lol

Neil1 · 12th December 2016, 11:25

A friend of mine had one of these back in the 80's http://car-from-uk.com/sale.php?id=52228

Didn't half go well.

trikey · 12th December 2016, 11:33

I used to have a mk1 escort with a fiat twin cam engine fitted, fantastic sound from the exhaust.

Synchromesh · 12th December 2016, 11:40

I had a Mirafiori then a Supermirafiori then a Strada 105TC.

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