Restored door panel

 

Traded stock seats for Mayu's Recaro's

Maser wheels on the 71

First start 71 spider

Nice horn button

 

I made the button from one of the original Fiat badges

Fiat Apocalypse

Horn button for new wheel

 

Cute Dogs

 

Mayu's dog Yuki on the left and snowball on the right, one mutt from Oakland, and one mutt from Tiawan

Mayu's new wheels

 

Getting ready to transplant my engine

 

We will be saying goodbye to the Colorado Fiat, I will be transplanting the drive train into this 71 spider, I finished painting the engine compartment with the original Colorado yellow color.

71 Spider gauges installed

 

Festival Italiano guess this car

Festival Italiano 2009 guess the car

71 Spider

Too early to tell but this car might be the one I transfer my tuned 1800 motor and Brava trans into

Check list

After a short first drive in the X here is a list of items needing attention:

Change head and install larger intake valves using a 79 carb head that was ported and had isky springs installed.

Install 2 DCNF 40mm carbs on a PBS intake manifold with a different Delta cam

Gasket match ports on the manifold

Check the trans linkage, reverse is hard to engage

adjust clutch

Get the fan to come on and wire up a switch to override

Install new tires

Repair nose and head light bucket paint

Install custom 2.25" exhaust and muffler

Change door panels to black to match newly covered seats

BWA wheels for Mayu's spider? My spider?

Tony and the Jags

Anybody need some XJ6 series one Jag parts?? This is the guy to go to he's got 3-4 of them!
We raced the 24 hours of Lemons with Tony a couple times with the famous TR7 weginator. He now has a bunch of Jags and the one in the photo raced in a Lemons race recently, it's got a SBC in it now here's his website: http://www.dr-no007.com/

Mayuko and I traded Maserati rims

She got the silver ones for her spider, the dark grey ones go on the X

What's better then one?

Rear suspension and brakes

 

Koni reds with lowering springs and carbon brake pads

Adjustable cam gear from Millers Mule

This little beauty will restore proper cam alignment after the head was shaved

http://www.millersmule.com/

Stump the Chumps

Stump the chumps recap time:

1500 engine, brand new Lancia short block deck height even with pistons from
factory I did not take any off the block.

FI head, Fiat head gasket installed

2.7mm approx total off top and bottom of the head

1300 tensioner I measure to be 59mm others say 60mm (which I just took off and
it came apart in my hand with ball bearings going everywhere)

confirmed continental 1500 belt last 3 numbers=069

tensioner pulley bracket pt# 4320684

adjustable cam gear by Apple diameter 124mm

lower crank pully from 1300

aux gear is plastic from ??

I could bend the long side of the belt past 90 degrees


solutions:

sleeve the tensioner bearing (expensive?)
dremel out the inside of the tensioner bracket boss to gain 1mm maybe
1438 tensioner bracket=67mm diameter, probably too much?
any others?

Chris
Oakland,Ca.

ps
It's weird that the tensioner fell apart in my hands did I tighten the nut too
much causing that? Ck that looking at the tensioner it's not possible to over
tighten since the inner races on both inner and outer bearings are captured by
the bracket boss and tensioner washers. I found all the bearings and put it
together again.

x19 start 1.2 (NSFW)

X19 start 1.0

Usually we only post our successes in automotive work but here is a look into the fumbling and idiocy that usually precedes any accomplishments. This is the video of the first attempted start of the x19 with the new motor. Keep in mind that even before this there were many attempts beginning with no cranking, timing being 180 deg. out, ignition switch problem (thats why my dad is underneath the car to start it) After a few hours of fiddling around we get this...

Fully functional 128 hood scoop

 

New brake pads for the X from www.lpiracing.com

If they work out we will put them on all the Fiats.

Hood scoop

Next improvement for the 128 is a hood scoop. Here is my inspiration...

I just have to get my hands on some 3/4" plywood, sweeeet!

The caravan

Here are some photos of the trip up to Oregon we took in July...

Sweet Ansa Exhaust

This is a new 128 Ansa header that we bought from Neal which is an improvement over the stock one but we lost a stud that we were using as a mounting point for the throttle linkage that my dad made (see 8/23/10 post) so it's back to the drawing board for that thing.

There goes my gas mileage....

Flywheel for the X

Lightened and balanced by Ashland Grinding in Hayward Ca.

 

Fiat 128 center caps

Fit the Maserati wheels nicely

 

DCNF with manifold for the X19

I enlarged the ports to 28.5mm, Steve Cecchele in New Zealand fabricated this from a 74 X manifold. This manifold puts the DCNF carb in the right aspect for linkage installation and float alignment. OOps Steve is from the West coast of Australia near Perth! Sorry Steve!

Finished linkage

 

Boring 128 linkage stuff

 

 

 

 

I found some tubing that had the perfect inside diameter for extending the original rod, I modified the bracket on the end to bolt to a stud on the exhaust manifold.