Hi Rubin & all,
Some pics of my ride..... yes it's a 600 or rather it was. The car is more 850 than 600, that's why I post into these OT threads. My car is a '61 600D with crossmember/coilover front end and 850 rear floor pan/gearbox. The complete floor pan means all of the 850 rear parts, axles, shocks, sway bars etc,etc. For those with keen eyes you'll also see a 124 sport dash/intruments (not in the Abarth/Jaeger style but works just as well and cheap!)
These ideas for these mods were taken from some clever guys in the local Fiat car club. They would compete in motokhana events so cheap but effective mods were the order of the day.
The body/chassis stuff was finished about ten years ago and the car has seen little use since then (married, two little kids, renovated the house, blah, blah) but last year work was finished on a new engine. I couldn't afford the A112 swap ( or so I thought! ) so the engine is 127 block with 66mm bores, balanced A112 74mm crank, fully floating pistons on H-beam rods with ARP bolts. The head has been mildly ported and uses the John Edwards JO/EL intake manifold with a DCD carby. Larger valves were also installed with a re ground mild profile camshaft.
Still running the engine in and sorting out a few little bugs bugs but the new engine is strong! More torque than it ever had ( I was running a standard 903cc before). Don't have to change back to 3rd gear to go up hills anymore, but she really takes off at 5500rpm and will happily pull 8000! In the end I spent a few more $$ than I thought but I believe this engine is superior in quality of components than a stock A112.
Look forward to seeing some pics of these other 850/OT projects also.
Cheers, Toby
Sydney Australia
