carl
True Classic
The ex ITC racer I bought last fall is slowly becoming a street car. I'm making a stripped out "cafe racer" for the street and starting with a car that is already stripped makes sense. I am running without the stock dash, just a gauge panel in the center and a tach in my face. The car came with a full six point cage which I'm leaving in although I did have to cut off the door bars so I could actually get in and out. I fired up the motor for the first time the other day and it settles into a nice steady idle with a 34 DMTR, FAZA cam and headers. I'll have to come up with a reasonable muffler system and right now I'm using a 124 resonator which brings down the exhaust note from excruciating to just above the pain threshold. It has a racing fuel cell up front and I'd like to figure out how to get a fuel gauge sender on it. The four corners are held up with coilovers and multiadjustable top mounts.
I was surprised that the guy who raced it used the stock gauges including the stock tach. No oil pressure gauge! Wiring was horrible with many poor connections. The trans shifter was mounted upside down and the bolted connection to the shift rod was very loose. The fitting on the head for the temp sender has apparently stripped at some point and a plug was just threaded into the head without matching threads in the block....very weird. Lots of combat wounds on the body but that's to be expected on a race car.
Anyway it's a hoot to work on and there is no time line to finish it....I'm notorious for selling Fiats after I'm done with all the mechanical issues. Rather like building plastic models....once you have finished it, what do you do with it....other than take it out back and shoot it with a pellet gun or stick a cherry bomb in it.
Pictures to follow.
I was surprised that the guy who raced it used the stock gauges including the stock tach. No oil pressure gauge! Wiring was horrible with many poor connections. The trans shifter was mounted upside down and the bolted connection to the shift rod was very loose. The fitting on the head for the temp sender has apparently stripped at some point and a plug was just threaded into the head without matching threads in the block....very weird. Lots of combat wounds on the body but that's to be expected on a race car.
Anyway it's a hoot to work on and there is no time line to finish it....I'm notorious for selling Fiats after I'm done with all the mechanical issues. Rather like building plastic models....once you have finished it, what do you do with it....other than take it out back and shoot it with a pellet gun or stick a cherry bomb in it.
Pictures to follow.
