Lemonious Monk wrote:I can get a pair of late 60's Fiat 850 Spiders that have been sitting in a field for decades. However, I'd need to find a suitable replacement motor. The biggest stock displacement motor they ever put in those cars was a whopping 903cc. What junkyard motor would fit in the back of those cars?
Hey, don't feel the need to get more cc's. Our 998 powered mini finished 38th of 147 cars (or top 25%) at sears pointless. Watch this and tell me that you need more hp in order to have fun...
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XVLJblRZNLE
From wiki:
"with the original 843 cc engine tuned to produce 49 hp (37 kW)"
and
"In 1968, Fiat revised the successful Spider and Coupé again and gave them an even stronger engine with 903 cc and 52 hp (39 kW)."
Conversely, our mini (not a true "cooper", just a 998) also from wiki:
"38 hp (28 kW) at 5250 rpm and 52 lb·ft (71 N·m) at 2700 rpm"
We're getting a little more than that, but not much!
And then the 58 cinquecento I'm looking at. (cover your eyes, it's not pretty):
from wiki:
"The original 500, the Nuova, has a smaller two-cylinder engine than all newer models, at 479 cc and producing just 13 bhp."
or, if I'm lucky enought to get a later engine in it:
"Replacing the original Nuova in 1960, the D looks very similar to the Nuova, but there are two key differences. One is the engine size (the D features an uprated 499 cc engine producing 17 bhp as standard — this engine is used right through until the end of the L in 1973)..."
