A black '69 124 Spider AS
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fiatfactory
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Re: A black '69 124 Spider AS
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Last edited by fiatfactory on Tue Jul 02, 2019 11:14 am, edited 1 time in total.
nothing to see here... move along.
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RCSquadraCorse
Re: A black '69 124 Spider AS
Yeah Steve, you're right about the costs, but because I will have an entire year of work for saving cash before coming back to wrench on the car I think I will have a reasonable budget to spend on it. I'm not saying I want to trash 10k Euro but of course I've realized that it will take a good amount of money to have it perfectly running and after all the efforts I'm putting into it I just want to have it as good/reliable as possible. I think it's a fair compromise to be honest since the car is worh every cent and scuffed knuckle I'm spending into it.
As for the cams, I should have already found a set of cams from a 1.8 and 2.0 engine and I wasn't aware that they are the same as the ones from the 1.4! So, following this argument, if I find some street performance cams for the 1.8/2.0 engine, this means that they will work for my engine too?
I will have the head port polished along with the other machining stuff I have to do and since I have to replace also the valves I was wondering if I have to match them to the port polishing job? I'd like to have a better "breathing" engine while I'm there and I think that I'm not going to spend too much cash compared the standard parts. Is it a good reasoning or am I missing something?
In the future I could also upgrade the carb and the exhaust header if I do all these small upgrades... I'm not lookng for huge amount of performance, as I said I would like to have the engine more "rev-happy". I will also take the stock flywheel to the machine shop for shaving off some weight and replace the stock ugly filter with a couple of intake trumpets/velocity stacks.
As I've always said, I'm not in a hurry, I'm taking my time to do and understand what I'm doing. As for dismantling it all seemed quite easy, it will be fun once I have to put everything back together... lol!
Also, I'm sending you a PM about the oversize pistons. I've found some NOS 80.4mm Nova here in Italy and I'd like to know if you think they're the right ones.
Thanks again for everything Steve!
As for the cams, I should have already found a set of cams from a 1.8 and 2.0 engine and I wasn't aware that they are the same as the ones from the 1.4! So, following this argument, if I find some street performance cams for the 1.8/2.0 engine, this means that they will work for my engine too?
I will have the head port polished along with the other machining stuff I have to do and since I have to replace also the valves I was wondering if I have to match them to the port polishing job? I'd like to have a better "breathing" engine while I'm there and I think that I'm not going to spend too much cash compared the standard parts. Is it a good reasoning or am I missing something?
In the future I could also upgrade the carb and the exhaust header if I do all these small upgrades... I'm not lookng for huge amount of performance, as I said I would like to have the engine more "rev-happy". I will also take the stock flywheel to the machine shop for shaving off some weight and replace the stock ugly filter with a couple of intake trumpets/velocity stacks.
As I've always said, I'm not in a hurry, I'm taking my time to do and understand what I'm doing. As for dismantling it all seemed quite easy, it will be fun once I have to put everything back together... lol!
Also, I'm sending you a PM about the oversize pistons. I've found some NOS 80.4mm Nova here in Italy and I'd like to know if you think they're the right ones.
Thanks again for everything Steve!