Posted By: LiamM
Fiat Coupe race car - 24/02/2011 12:43
I suppose this all started when I bought, my 1998 red 20VT in 2008, it was originally bought with the view of it being a weekend and trackday car. When I picked it up I discovered that it was too clean to ever consider bringing it on track, I suppose you could say, Love at first sight! 
Anyhoo, a mate of mine was leaving Ireland and heading home to the UK and offered me his for peanuts, I took up the offer and so the project started...
First job, Engine out:
Then get it home and strip it, many winter evenings were spent tearing chunks off it!
At this point in time I spotted a caged Coupe on ebay, yellow and already a nice bit of work done, I reckoned that the worst that come of it was that I would have a lot of spares! so I put the trailer on the Jeep and drove from Mullingar (central Ireland) to Doncaster to pick her up
We did a few trackdays, and before long the headgasket went
anyhoo, it was stripped down and got a new OMP cage, Gaz Gold Sussy,
and a new 7kg fiberglass bonnet. Meanwhile the engine had the head polished and ported, a GT28RS with 3" down pipe and 3" decat pipe straight out to the rear end, and EVO 4 FMIC.
(I took delivery of a Gotech Pro-X Stand alone ECU this morning, we're hoping to get 300bhp out of it when we get it mapped properly)
I did a round of the ITCC (Irish Touring Car Championship) at the end of last year and unfortunately a tyre disintegrating at 100mph gave me a DNF
So, New wheels new Slicks, a front splitter and some hasty repairs to my bonnet later and I was doing a few trackdays
Its in the workshop again at the moment, getting seam welded, ECU fitted, mapped and painted, I'm going for a mad color scheme I think, something like this:
and then a few track days and the first round or the ITCC on April 10th.
Apologies if I'm duplicating info thats in my thread in the trackdays section
Liam
Anyhoo, a mate of mine was leaving Ireland and heading home to the UK and offered me his for peanuts, I took up the offer and so the project started...
First job, Engine out:
Then get it home and strip it, many winter evenings were spent tearing chunks off it!
At this point in time I spotted a caged Coupe on ebay, yellow and already a nice bit of work done, I reckoned that the worst that come of it was that I would have a lot of spares! so I put the trailer on the Jeep and drove from Mullingar (central Ireland) to Doncaster to pick her up
We did a few trackdays, and before long the headgasket went
anyhoo, it was stripped down and got a new OMP cage, Gaz Gold Sussy,
and a new 7kg fiberglass bonnet. Meanwhile the engine had the head polished and ported, a GT28RS with 3" down pipe and 3" decat pipe straight out to the rear end, and EVO 4 FMIC.
(I took delivery of a Gotech Pro-X Stand alone ECU this morning, we're hoping to get 300bhp out of it when we get it mapped properly)
I did a round of the ITCC (Irish Touring Car Championship) at the end of last year and unfortunately a tyre disintegrating at 100mph gave me a DNF
So, New wheels new Slicks, a front splitter and some hasty repairs to my bonnet later and I was doing a few trackdays
Its in the workshop again at the moment, getting seam welded, ECU fitted, mapped and painted, I'm going for a mad color scheme I think, something like this:
and then a few track days and the first round or the ITCC on April 10th.
Apologies if I'm duplicating info thats in my thread in the trackdays section
Liam
