General Cinquecento or Seicento what to buy rally style

[Centotechnique]

My 1st post on the forum............

Looking to buy a Cinq or Seicento Sporting.

Then doing it rally style for everyday use:


Seems to be few options around, my options are:

1:

Buy a FIAT Seicento Arbarth styled with 14" alloys or M. S Special Edition model. I quite like them in Silver/grey with red check seats.

2.
FIAT Seicento Sporting standard model with 13" alloys
add 6x13 alloys and 195/50/13 tyres. & Suspension kit.

3.

FIAT CINQ sporting

QUESTION: Is the MPI the better Model to SPI?

I very much into classic Minis and Carb is the weapon of choice, they also do SPI & MPI if I was having another late Mini I would have MPI.

How easy is it to get hold of a lamp pod and lamps?

Does anyone just do a rear cage hoop only?

Removing Airbag for Rally steering wheel?



MODIFICATIONS TO ALL:

OMP Rally parts: Foot rests, 4 point belt, Cage, mudflaps, steering wheel.
Temp Gauge converison & possible oil & battery gauge etc.
Rally Graphics in Monte Carlo Rally style.

Suspension???

Exhaust System?

Homemade sump guard.

Look forward to your advice.

I have a fully equipped garage and good at building stuff, building myself a gropA rally mini at moment. Bit to much to use everyday since I am now buying a FIAT to replace my boring everyday car. ROVER CABRIO. lol.

My mini last year in Monte Carlo part of my Honeymoon 3000 mile tour.

Now having engine built for 2014.

 

[fingers99]

Is the MPI the better Model to SPI?

No. While the aesthetics are a matter of personal choice, the MPI is much harder and expensive to modify engine wise than the SPI, assuming you're going n/a and not popping in an aftermarket ECU.

 

[Ouby]

Your coming from the world of the Mini with it's wealth of go-faster parts to the land of small Fiats & next to no easy /cheap improvements!
Welcome aboard.

Carburetters, ah fond memories. Sure beats an Icon Superchip on a MPI Mini.... & NO you can't even get them for a Cinq or Sei SPI/MPI.

 

[Centotechnique]

No. While the aesthetics are a matter of personal choice, the MPI is much harder and expensive to modify engine wise than the SPI, assuming you're going n/a and not popping in an aftermarket ECU.

thanks for post.

so for tuning and modifying better to go for spi
when did they stop making spi?

 

[Centotechnique]

Thanks for post.Doing a classic mini us not cheap either these days.if your doing it right. In to 10k with mine so far. Small fiat looks fun my sister had a ms limited edition when they were new great fun. Love works rally cars fiat looks good goal. Got around 2k to play with so thinking 800 to 1400 on car then few mods to begin with.

how easy is cam belt change?

 

[blu73]

when did they stop making spi?

2000 (X-reg) seicento's are the last spi cars, 2001 onwards they are all mpi (there is a few 2000 sei's that are mpi but they are rare. All cinqs 1108cc are spi.

So if you're used to mini's you must be one of the few people that don't see a cinq/sei as a small car, got a pic of my sei next to a clubman somewhere and the sei looks HUGE! lol

 

[Pep0]

belt only needs one axle stand
swap cam shaft from breakers cheapest option for torque swap for bigger engine if you need more