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Seicento 2000 899 Seicento SX

Introduction

Hi all, this is my new Seicento which I picked up today, I'm well known in the Panda 2012+ section of the forum, but that car was recently giving me a constant headache with multiple issues so got rid & decided to go old school with this little beauty being the result, I've had a Cinquecento in the past so sort of knew what to expect😂 this is a 2000 pre facelift SX with 22k which cost me just short of £2k, all the underside is solid with no holes anywhere just a few surface bits which I've started to clean up beginning with the worst surface area being the back of the boot floor & bumper brackets which have now been wire brushed & treated so just a couple more dots to do & then rust proof the entire underside to future proof her, anyway here she is
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Went to my first show of the year yesterday at Caffeine & Machine for the Fiat & Abarth meet, 252 mile round trip on just over half a tank of fuel & she didn't miss a beat 👌 the old girl got quite a lot of attention, a lot more than I thought she would 😂

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There was also a few other interesting Fiat's there as well including a few Centos, Panda 100HP's of which one had 300 bhp, 595 Abarth's & even a Lancia Y10.

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Last summer I'd got back to my Cinquecento which I had parked in the underground car park of a Waitrose and there was some old boy (easily in his 80's) taking photos of my car. So I started chatting to him, he was loving my car and said that he had a Lancia Y10, had it since it was 6 months old and bought it from the Lancia dealer in Luton or was it Bedford?
He was saying the dealer would send a lot of their trainee techs (who were mostly from Italian families around Bedfordshire over to Italy. He was quite an interesting chap and said the Y10 had never missed a beat, rust free, but it wasn't being driven much as his wife usually drove it and she had virtually stopped driving.
He also said finding parts was a bit of challenge (something all Cinq and probably Sei drivers know about). As I drove off I thought to myself I should have given him my number and said if you ever want to sell the Lancia give me a call....🤦‍♂️
 
You tease us and then didn't snap a picture of it?! 😂
😂 It wasn't the nicest Y10 as it had been customised a bit so wasn't my cup of tea 😂 someone had painted it purple & then put in matching colour vinyl seat covers, if it was original early car with the alcantara interior etc I would have been all over it 🤣 as I love a Y10, I nearly bought an early 1985 Y10 blind many years ago from eBay but I think someone jumped in with a bid the last few seconds. My dad told me once he went to look at a Y10 just down the road in the 90's as he really likes them as well, he got there & it was the classic one side was up against a hedge 😂 the side on show was immaculate & the side against the hedge was completely eaten alive 😂
 
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Last summer I'd got back to my Cinquecento which I had parked in the underground car park of a Waitrose and there was some old boy (easily in his 80's) taking photos of my car. So I started chatting to him, he was loving my car and said that he had a Lancia Y10, had it since it was 6 months old and bought it from the Lancia dealer in Luton or was it Bedford?
He was saying the dealer would send a lot of their trainee techs (who were mostly from Italian families around Bedfordshire over to Italy. He was quite an interesting chap and said the Y10 had never missed a beat, rust free, but it wasn't being driven much as his wife usually drove it and she had virtually stopped driving.
He also said finding parts was a bit of challenge (something all Cinq and probably Sei drivers know about). As I drove off I thought to myself I should have given him my number and said if you ever want to sell the Lancia give me a call....🤦‍♂️

That would most probably be the dream Y10 to own as it most likely be completely original
 
I've noticed recently that the exhaust on the car has had a slight blow for a little while & her 252 mile escapade to Caffeine & Machine on Tuesday made it slightly worse 😂 so Wednesday morning I got her up on some ramps & had a good look around the exhaust to see where the blow was coming from. I soon found that it was coming from the rear section on the welds as it had rotted through & has a few small holes as a result, the front section & cat have cleaned up really well with just a scotch brite pad & come up like new, I then found that stock 899 exhausts are not that common nowadays as they once were & are quite expensive, I can remember with my Cinquecento when I was 17 a whole rear section was about £25 from a motor factors 😂 the only ones which seem to be obtainable for a 899 are anything between £125 - £200 for a Klarius rear section 😱 in which I hate Klarius systems as they never fit, so I started to look around for other options like aftermarket systems but I don't like the 3 - 4 inch systems on offer as 1) they'll look a bit silly especially on a 899 & 2) it'll zap power being that big & the good old 899 doesn't have a lot to begin with 😂 I then did some researching on the forum & online, it turns out a stock Sporting SPI cat back system can be fitted to an 899 with an adapter for the slight difference in bore size which is 10mm difference as a 899 is 35mm bore & the Sporting is 45mm bore. I just happened to be on the phone to my dad earlier today & as a mechanic he worked on a lot of Seicento's & Cinquecento's back in the day so I told him how much the 899 rear section was for a crap branded system & he told me that he always used to fit the 1108 rear sections to the 899 as they were always cheaper & the shape & hangers etc were all the same just a very slight difference in bore, so that was a good enough answer for me 😂 I know that the hangers on Cinquecento's are slightly different to a Seicento, so I've purchased a Bosal Seicento Sporting SPI cat back system after seeing that all 1108 Seicento SPI rear sections are the same part numbers, all cross reference, interchangable etc along with a 35mm - 45mm adapter to fit to the existing 899 system for the slight bore difference, I've always had good results with Bosal systems which was why I went for one of them & the system with the adapter was £105 as opposed to the price of a Klarius 😬 rear section for a 899, it'll also be a nice subtle upgrade too with perhaps a nice little rasp 😁👌
 
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I've noticed recently that the exhaust on the car has had a slight blow for a little while & her 252 mile escapade to Caffeine & Machine on Tuesday made it slightly worse 😂 so Wednesday morning I got her up on some ramps & had a good look around the exhaust to see where the blow was coming from. I soon found that it was coming from the rear section on the welds as it had rotted through & has a few small holes as a result, the front section & cat have cleaned up really well with just a scotch brite pad & come up like new, I then found that stock 899 exhausts are not that common nowadays as they once were & are quite expensive, I can remember with my Cinquecento when I was 17 a whole rear section was about £25 from a motor factors 😂 the only ones which seem to be obtainable for a 899 are anything between £125 - £200 for a Klarius rear section 😱 in which I hate Klarius systems as they never fit, so I started to look around for other options like aftermarket systems but I don't like the 3 - 4 inch systems on offer as 1) they'll look a bit silly especially on a 899 & 2) it'll zap power being that big & the good old 899 doesn't have a lot to begin with 😂 I then did some researching on the forum & online, it turns out a stock Sporting SPI cat back system can be fitted to an 899 with an adapter for the slight difference in bore size which is 10mm difference as a 899 is 35mm bore & the Sporting is 45mm bore. I just happened to be on the phone to my dad earlier today & as a mechanic he worked on a lot of Seicento's & Cinquecento's back in the day so I told him how much the 899 rear section was for a crap branded system & he told me that he always used to fit the 1108 rear sections to the 899 as they were always cheaper & the shape & hangers etc were all the same just a very slight difference in bore, so that was a good enough answer for me 😂 I know that the hangers on Cinquecento's are slightly different to a Seicento, so I've purchased a Bosal Seicento Sporting SPI cat back system after seeing that all 1108 Seicento SPI rear sections are the same part numbers, all cross reference, interchangable etc along with a 35mm - 45mm adapter to fit to the existing 899 system for the slight bore difference, I've always had good results with Bosal systems which was why I went for one of them & the system with the adapter was £105 as opposed to the price of a Klarius 😬 rear section for a 899, it'll also be a nice subtle upgrade too with perhaps a nice little rasp 😁👌
Nice. I had a Powerflow stainless system fitted to my Cinquecento last May. Sounds lovely / good welds - but cost £500. I did email Ragazzon in Italy to see if they still sold a system for the Cinquecento Sporting - email back from them, pretty much said fat chance....
 
Nice. I had a Powerflow stainless system fitted to my Cinquecento last May. Sounds lovely / good welds - but cost £500. I did email Ragazzon in Italy to see if they still sold a system for the Cinquecento Sporting - email back from them, pretty much said fat chance....

That seems to be the answer from Fiat for most cento enquiries as well 🤣 I've never had a Raggazon or Powerflow system but have heard them on 100HP's & 595 Abarth's they do sound good, only aftermarket systems I've ever had were either single box or twin box RC40's on Classic Mini's 👌 that system coupled with an A Series what a glorious sound.
 
That seems to be the answer from Fiat for most cento enquiries as well 🤣 I've never had a Raggazon or Powerflow system but have heard them on 100HP's & 595 Abarth's they do sound good, only aftermarket systems I've ever had were either single box or twin box RC40's on Classic Mini's 👌 that system coupled with an A Series what a glorious sound.
I've got a Ragazzon cat back system on my 595 Comp, to be fair I do like it - but it is quiet compared to the standard Record Monza and quiet as a mouse compared to when I had a carbon tipped Magneti Marelli Bombardone fitted. Now that was loud... :ROFLMAO:
 
The new exhaust turned up yesterday so got it fitted this morning, it turned out that I didn't need the adapter to fit the stock Sporting system to the 899 as it just slid straight onto it & also the dimensions like length & diameter at the front where it joins the cat are the same as well, it has to be the best mod so far as she doesn't feel restrictive anymore as the new system has a 2nd silencer & also a slightly deeper note with a subtle rasp 😁👌& the correct sporting rolled tip on the tailpipe.

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