Another Fiat Post. Why? Because Not Racecar.

"DancesWithRotors - Driving Insightfully" (danceswithrotors) 01/21/2014 at 01:12 • Filed to: Fiat

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Put the lower dash and center console back in...

Top up...

Topless.

That ass... That sexy, Italian ass.

The ignition switch will be ordered tomorrow morning at some point, as will the hood release cable, upgraded headlights and alternator. I plan on having her moving Saturday afternoon, at this rate. (Waiting on parts + time off... 55 hour weeks at work are bad for project car completion.)

The Real Dacia Sandero > DancesWithRotors - Driving Insightfully 01/21/2014 at 02:05

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Please tell me that you didn't choose those wheels...

DancesWithRotors - Driving Insightfully > The Real Dacia Sandero 01/21/2014 at 02:08

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I didn't. They came with the car, and I'm not quite motivated to drop the cash on a new set of Cromodoras, just yet. I'm trying to work out a trade for a set of OEM 14" wheels, though.

The Real Dacia Sandero > DancesWithRotors - Driving Insightfully 01/21/2014 at 02:22

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Sell them to some honda kid who thinks they're the best thing ever and get some oe wheels.

DancesWithRotors - Driving Insightfully > The Real Dacia Sandero 01/21/2014 at 02:24

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Honda kids don't run 14s anymore, though. They're all about the big wheel crapola.

duurtlang > DancesWithRotors - Driving Insightfully 01/21/2014 at 05:59

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With cars nowadays that isn't strange. In the late 1980s you had the Peugeot 205 GTI 1.9, with large wheels and low profile tires (for the time). I've got those exact wheels for my winter tires on my daily driver (406 coupe), which was introduced in the late 1990s. The wheels look tiny and narrow on my car, they hardly even fit over the front brakes. My mechanic mentioned the left over space didn't even fit a coin. They're 15".

Makoyouidiot > DancesWithRotors - Driving Insightfully 01/21/2014 at 07:10

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Interesting. I ALSO have a brown Fiat that I park next to a Mazda3 hatch....

And when I bought this one, they had an old Spyder out front that had been restomodded...it had the wheels from a 500 Sport like mine, looked great.

BiTurbo228 - Dr Frankenstein of Spitfires > DancesWithRotors - Driving Insightfully 01/21/2014 at 07:14

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I love the colour. Didn't really get that from the pics in the garage.

I've been doing a bit of reading and apparently the 1.8 is the engine to get in its stock format. Ultimately you can get more power out of a 2.0, but from stock the 1.8s were more powerful :)

Also, do you have any designs for the US-spec bumpers? Personally, I think they look excellent without them.

Removing them from my X1/9 saved 20kg. They're really bloody heavy. Depending on how light the Cromodoras are you could be nudging 1000kg (down from 1050).

minardi > DancesWithRotors - Driving Insightfully 01/21/2014 at 07:20

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I had one of those, but blue.

BiTurbo228 - Dr Frankenstein of Spitfires > BiTurbo228 - Dr Frankenstein of Spitfires 01/21/2014 at 07:26

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Found another, more kickass pic :)

DancesWithRotors - Driving Insightfully > Makoyouidiot 01/21/2014 at 09:47

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To be fair, it's more me parking the Mazda3 hatch next to the Fiat, right now. :P

Makoyouidiot > DancesWithRotors - Driving Insightfully 01/21/2014 at 10:01

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Fix it right, then you won't have to fix it again, amiright?

DancesWithRotors - Driving Insightfully > Makoyouidiot 01/21/2014 at 10:11

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You're right.