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Cinquecento My Project Track Car PEX

Introduction

Hi all I have been on here for a while and thought it was about time to post a few pics.
To many he is known as PEX and has been my project car that has been going on forever due to a tight budget.
Have done a load of work to it since I first bought him in 2008 when it was a stock gunmetal Cinquecento sporting.

Here is what I have done so far.

Suspension

1) Powerflex polyurethane bushes front and rear.
2) Eibach uprated anti-roll bar.
3) Avo coilover adjustable suspension front and rear.
4) Front top Sparco strut brace.
5) Lower front OMP strut brace.
6) Rear strut brace.


Engine Mods

1) Running a P60 SPI
2) Complete cloosed forced air induction system which is a carbon
Dexcraft bob with carbon pipe with Samco reducer onto a BMC carbon
can with filter with intake in the front bumper.
3) 4-2-1 Stainless Supersprint manifold.
4) Decat Power flow stainless exhaust system.
5) Ecu McCritch Chip.
6) Magnacore KV85 V5 Ht leads.
7) ‘Tricker’ 40mm Throttle Body, replaces the stock 30mm throttle body.
8) NGK spark plus.
9) Ported and polished inlet manifold and bellmouth outlets.
10) Samco engine silcone hoses.
11) Alloy oil catch tank.
12) Mocal oil cooler.
13) Seicento coolant tank.
14) P75 866 cam.

Shell/Chassis/Body

1) Lightened Shell due to weight reduction, Stripped out the inside of the
car, Dashboard still inside nothing else (no rear seats, brackets, seat
belts, soundproofing, headlining).
2) 2 x Sparco Sprint bucket seats.
3) 2 x Sparco 3 point race harnesses.
4) 6-point full OMP roll cage, bolted and welded.
5) Black flocked clock surround
6) Lightweight Alloy race fuel tank
7) Panda front single wiper.
8) Full set of polycarbonate windows with front window sliders.
9) Roof spoiler.
10) Quick release front bumper.
11) Bonnet on bonnet lifters and pinned.
12) Painted in two pack paint.
13) Plumbed fire system.
14) Pull cable power kill switch.

Brakes / Wheels

1) Punto GT caliper conversion at the front.
2) Brembo Motorsport drilled/vented discs for a Punto GT on the front
3) Black diamond predetor pads
4) DJ alloy wheels (rare) 175-50-R14’s
5) Falken tyres on 195-45-R14’s.
6) Locking Wheel nuts.
7) Goodridge Braided Hoses at the front.
8) Goodridge Braided Hoses at the rear
Whilst the engine was out I thought I would tidy up everything from re-sleaving the loom, new uprated engine mounts and istead of buying a new drivers side engine mount and radiator fan bracket have them rubbed back and painted or powder coated.
I have replaced all sensors and got a new coil packs, spark plugs and leads so that the ignition system is all new.
 

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Engine mounts refurbished.
 

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We bought a refurbished gearbox and I can't say I am a lover of battleship grey so that had to go and so I painted it in Hammeright smooth red which looks far better.
 

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I took off the rocker cover, the block water pipe, ECU holder, down pipe brace, as it look rubbish and sent them to my mate Steve Turner who then did a fantastic job in powder coating them.
 

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Looks pretty, fancy painting everything on mine? I'm finally getting round to sorting mine out. We'll have a track day soon.......in 2020

Did the new engine come with a fancy cam?
 
The radiator fan bracket looked pants and was very corroded so I didn't buy a new one and after looking at it after rubbing it down with a wire brush it was still solid.
So it was sent off to Steve to powder coat it in white.
 

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Looks pretty, fancy painting everything on mine? I'm finally getting round to sorting mine out. We'll have a track day soon.......in 2020

Did the new engine come with a fancy cam?

yeah would be happy to Brooky :) it would be good to see your mean machine back on the track.
If you want Steve's website I am happy to send it to you.
The cam is a re-profiled 866 cam but I will be buying a Colombo & Bariani cam.
 
As well as the fan bracket I sent the coil pack holders off to Steve and had them done in white Chris Blu talked me into getting to coil pack holders done. :)
 

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So now that the coil pack holders look good I thought I would buy new coil packs, Magnecore KV75 and NGK iridium spark plugs so that the ignition system is good to go.
Chris Blu advised me to get a more powerful fuel pump in so I got the pump he thought would be best and bought it from Merlin Motorsport.
 

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So now that most of the parts had been powder coated and looked amazing I thought it would look great to get the inlet manifold done so I asked Steve to do it in a deep blue and I must say it is such a lovely colour and finish so really happy with that.
You are probably thinking why all these colours well as you can see PEX's colours are red, white and blue so I thought I would carry that on in the engine bay.
 

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How friendly are you with the MOT man? I had the C&B280, it was great on the road but never passed an mot, maybe with the right mapping it would pass but mine was miles off. Got the 300 now, I plan on swapping the heads come mot time and running a different map.
 
So with all these parts done I needed a P75 injector fuel rail and as you can imagine trying to find one over here is nigh on impossible, I would have more chance of meeting Elvis.
So after thinking about how I could find one I thought well there is bound to be one in Italy so cue my Brother-In-Law Alberto, he was going on a holiday to his home city Rome.
I sent him the pictures and he asked his dad who happened to know a chap who owns a scrap yard.
He said that he had one which looked as good as new so Alberto bought it and brought it back, sorted.
 

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How friendly are you with the MOT man? I had the C&B280, it was great on the road but never passed an mot, maybe with the right mapping it would pass but mine was miles off. Got the 300 now, I plan on swapping the heads come mot time and running a different map.

Richard is my mate who is doing the MOT and I have know him for about 15 years, he is good but not sure if he does remapping, if you like I can ask him if he can do it?
 
I then looked at making my ECU look better so I got my blue 3D carbon embossed vinyl wrap and wrapped it and the relay box so it looked better than standard.
 

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I now thought the wiring look looks scruffy so I bought two packs of wiring sleaving and took off all the old factory sleaving and replaced it with the new blue set.
It looks really eye popping and really has lifted the look in the engine bay.
 

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To finish off the build I bought a new K&N oil filter so the filter would perform better than a bog standard filter.
New inlet manifold and exhaust gaskets and I finished off the hot water pipe that goes from the bottom heater matrix outlet to the rear of the throttle body and inlet manifold in Samco blue hoses.
 

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The next job was to repaint the engine bay so it was several coats of the deep blue Hammeright smooth which really has lifted the look of it.
 

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The next thing to do was to attach the engine mounts and put the ECU holder and the wiring loom back on the car.
 

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All prep done so it was time to put the engine and gearbox in the car and then everything started to come together.
 

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With the engine back in I bought a new oil pressure switch, thermostat, crank sensor a Fingers 99 lower brace and then start to tidy up the engine bay.
I put my DEx Craft induction kit and Samco hoses back on and then it all started to look brilliant.
 

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