Hi. Maybe its not a big problem but it's a little bit frustrating. I travel all over the Europe in my cc, problem is that the 5 gear is a little bit to short. 1.1 and 1.2 gearbox won't fit so i try to find gearbox from uno or seicento 900 but i think they are all the same. Any ideas? Even if i gain 10% of speed more it will be good. Maybe i just need to replace 5th gear gearwheels from other gearbox but from what car?
Technical 903cm3 Cinquecento Gearbox mods
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Technical 903cm3 Cinquecento Gearbox mods
Bacci sell a range of final drives. Expensive, but if your doing a lot of driving it might make all the difference.
Bigger tyres?
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I did this on my old Alfa 145.. I fitted the two fifth gear cogs from the 1.9 diesel which was sold in Europe but not in the UK. It left all the ratios unchanged but top gear had less revs on the clock for any given speed so it was a lot less "busy".
You need to find out the gear ratios that each car with a similar gearbox has and then identify the one that will give you a decent change in final drive ratio... it's a lot of hassle just to save 100rpm at 60mph for example.
Failing that, if there's people that can make you a set of cogs to order, then that's maybe a goer but even an off-the-shelf cog is going to cost £100 so £200 or more for a matching set ... you need to really want it.
On my 145 I estimated I would save enough fuel for the mod' to pay for itself after two years... but a Cinq' doesn't exactly knock back the pints, so this mod' would only pay for itself after 3-4 years, I'd guess.
Best idea "on the cheap" is to just fit wheels with a bigger rolling radius, for example some 14" from a Mk1-2 Punto. The drawback is that the "higher gearing" will affect all the gears so if you think your 900 is a bit sluggish to accelerate now, it will be even slower with the larger wheels/tyres. But the advantage is that when you're not touring you can fit the standard wheels, whereas swapping gearboxes is a slightly more than 20 minutes job.
Ralf S.
You need to find out the gear ratios that each car with a similar gearbox has and then identify the one that will give you a decent change in final drive ratio... it's a lot of hassle just to save 100rpm at 60mph for example.
Failing that, if there's people that can make you a set of cogs to order, then that's maybe a goer but even an off-the-shelf cog is going to cost £100 so £200 or more for a matching set ... you need to really want it.
On my 145 I estimated I would save enough fuel for the mod' to pay for itself after two years... but a Cinq' doesn't exactly knock back the pints, so this mod' would only pay for itself after 3-4 years, I'd guess.
Best idea "on the cheap" is to just fit wheels with a bigger rolling radius, for example some 14" from a Mk1-2 Punto. The drawback is that the "higher gearing" will affect all the gears so if you think your 900 is a bit sluggish to accelerate now, it will be even slower with the larger wheels/tyres. But the advantage is that when you're not touring you can fit the standard wheels, whereas swapping gearboxes is a slightly more than 20 minutes job.
Ralf S.
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Hey Ralf-
that story about the 145 gearbox mod is very interesting to me.
Do you still have any info on what was done?
(maybe I should PM you about this?) so as not to hijack Luke's thread...
that story about the 145 gearbox mod is very interesting to me.
Do you still have any info on what was done?
(maybe I should PM you about this?) so as not to hijack Luke's thread...
