I'm not manly enough for frankenfiat, are you? 67 fiat 850 spider, not much left that's fiat

I admit it, I’m not man enough for this beast of a car. My paltry driving skills don’t let me get this thing anywhere near it’s performance potential, and I need a more wife friendly (aka windshield, AC) car so she will enjoy it with me. That’s right, I’m stepping down from this beast, and looking for a miata. So if you are tired of your low horsepower, boring ride, let me know and we can work out a trade. Email, text or call with any questions, Car is located in Amarillo Tx, right on I-40. I can deliver depending on the price.
Tony52398@yahoo.com 806-477-2731

Basics:
Starts, runs and drives great. Body 1967 Fiat 850 spider HIGHLY MODIFIED Engine Subaru ej20 twin turbo ran by microsquirt Transaxle – Porsche 915 5 speed from a 1983 911. Front suspension: Abarth designed a arms with coil overs. Total I’ve invested: $7300. Asking $4000 or Shoot me an offer, especially miata trades.

The Good – Built in the Collin Chapman “simplify then add lightness” mold. Weight is a lithe 1475 lbs. HP in the stock configuration is either 276 or 249 hp. I don’t have the intercoolers, and outfront motorsports estimates this configuration should be about 225 HP. That’s 6.55 lbs/hp. Let’s compare that to some other cars. The epitomy of chest hair manliness Dodge Viper SRT10 is 6.7, C6 vette – a paltry 7.5. I know that if you find a GTR in a long stretch or road you can hang with him no problem and leave him shaking his head and asking What the hell this thing is.

This thing makes a miata look huge. Just for comparison Width - Fiat 59.1” Miata 65.9 (and boy can you tell on slaloms!) Length – Fiat 150.4” Miata 155.5” Wheelbase – Fiat 80.2” Miata: 89.2”

Also, this car gets more attention than I ever thought possible. Be it at an autocross, or local cars and coffee, if you like attention, This is your ride. Now a good portion of those people walk away shaking their head like you’re crazy, but you definitely get attention.

The stock front transverse leaf suspension has been changed to a copy of the abarth A arm with coil over set ups, this means the thing can turn! The previous owner had it set up for autocross and campaigned it successfully. Here is a video of him at the 2008 solo nationals. This is with the fiat 850cc engine, not the one that’s in it now.

solo nationals

The brakes are dang good as well. When I got it the fronts were wildwood calipers and rotors, but the rear was stock vw drums. With the added weight and HP these things were just totally overwhelmed. I put on Jamar 4 piston race set ups meant for sand rails since they bolt up to the existing VW setup. Now this thing brakes dead even with my dads s2000.

THE BAD: There is not much fiat left in the fiat. The steering wheel and shifter are stock! Pretty much everything else is either added on, stripped down or replaced with fiberglass. The body has several issues that I’ll show in photos shortly. The worst is a dent below the passenger side door, and a gap between rear end panel and the body because the two turbos stick out to far!

PICS: Complete photo album with all pics I have of the car

album link

As she currently sits

Abarth door tag

Dent beneath drivers door

Rear end

rear brakes

rear panel gap to clear turbos

engine bay

happy seat

don’t say I didn’t warn you

Complete parts list, with prices for the parts I installed, and links/pics Front Suspension – Custom fabricated A Arms with coil overs Wilwood Brakes – 2 piston front calipers $350 Wilwood proportioning valves $50 Walbro fuel pump 255 LPH fuel pump $109 fuel pump

Wheels – American Racing 15x7 Maverick Anthracite 5x114.3 bolt pattern - $400 wheels

Tires Front – BFG Rivals – 205/50 r15 - $226 Rear – BFG Rivals – 225/45 r15 -$129

Guages autometer tach, temp, oil pressure and speedometer

Wheel Adapters – Motorsport techcustom two piece aluminum front adapters to change from fiat 4x98 to 5x114.3 $180 adapters

Rear – One piece adapters from VW wide 5 to 5x114.3 $45 Willwood brake master cylinder Willwood clutch master and slave cylinder. Transaxle – Porsche 915 5 speed Transaxle from 83 911. $1500

Computer – Microsquirt $340 SQUIRT!!

Adapter – Kennedy Engineering adapter – $540 adapter Kennedy Performance Clutch - $450 clutch

Starter – Stock Porsche 911 - $260

02 sensor – Innovate LC1 $210 O2

Rear Brakes – Jamar Performance 4 piston rear brake kit – $825 STOP!!!

Engine – JDM EJ20 TWIN TURBO – $650 JDM YO!

Outfront Motorsports parts Twin Turbo Exhaust $350 JDM YO! Shortened oil pan $270 Reverse intake kit - $100

SPARE PARTS: Hard Top (goes for at least $850) Set of CV’s 5 gallon gas tank Various trim pieces

Also have a manual boost controller and boost guage I never installed.

This thing looks awesome! I am even in TX this weekend but I am 100% sure that my wife would have me out on the street for this...

That just means you can flog your new toy all night

Can you make the photobucket album "open" not "private" This would be a heck of a fun little thing for me.

sorry, I suck at the internet, it should be public now

Your dent and panel gap pictures aren't working for me.

Looks like a beast!

ok, redid those two, can anyone else see them? I'm not sure what the issue is with those.

I had no problems seeing these pictures the first time around.

icaneat50eggs wrote: That just means you can flog your new toy all night

Holy E36 M3 that doesnt sound right

Yeah didn't really think of that context. Should have used hoon

How's the fit for a 6'2" fat man? This thing might be small enough to share a storage unit with my 12a powered MGB.

my 6'4" 350 lbs friend can fit, his only issue is his freakishly large feet (18's) have a hard time not clobbering the clutch and the gas at the same time. But that's just a heated and bent clutch away from being fixed.

Do you have room for another MGB? the fiat is smaller than the MGB so if you can squeeze two of your current car in there you are good.

Also edited to add that I have a manual boost controller and boost guage I never installed.

Such a sweet car... how much is delivery to Columbus, OH? ;-)

On the panel gap issue: I would find some expanded metal similar to the back panel, make closure pieces that return from the fascia to the back edge of the quarter panel, and call it a day.

If that thing is street legal, and I didn't have the Manic Miata already, I'd be on my way to Texas with a trailer and a big wad of $100s. GLWS.

That thing rocks! Good luck with the sale - At that price, I'm pretty sure it won't take too long for you to regret getting rid of it.

I drive it all the time with antique plates and hagerty insurance. In Texas with Antique plates you are only supposed to go to car events, and shops for repairs, etc. Usually I throw my laptop hooked up to the microsquirt and call it a tuning run. i've been pulled over 3 times, and each time they just said, "that's awesome" and let me go. One said he'd let me go if I got on it as I pulled away and he wanted to see how quick I'd get to 70. nothing like being encouraged to accellerate by the highway patrol.

oh yeah, i have both the cut off window frame that it came with, plus a whole replacement frame that could be welded in if you want/law requires a windshield.

i'll deliver for $1/mile (one way, so to columbus $1177)

How big is that gas tank and how far can you get on a tank? Looks great for autocross, but how long a session can you do at a track day?

The one in it right now is 2.5 gallons. it will come with a second 5 gallon container that you could install easily. I have no idea what kind of gas mileage you'd get on a track, but aren't most track day sessions in the 20-30 minute range? 5 gallons should cover that easily. The 2.5 gallon tank lets me drive to the autocross and back without refuelling, which is about 40 miles total.

Also most of July I'll be available for delivery, might be headed to the midwest anyway at that time and could make a side trip to drop this off to whoever the next owner is

Would the hard top clear the roll bar(presuming the windshield was reattached)? What kind of Miata are you looking for?

Man I want that...I'm not sure how long I would last on the drive home though.

I don't know if the top would fit. I stuffed the top I storage when I got home. Be warned you'd also have to get a rear mounting point because the back deck was re done in fiberglass to save weight.

I'll check on the top tomorrow. An str prepped an would be pretty much what I was looking for.

Broke back- I'll deliver to Tucson, trust me this is nothing you'd ever want to do a roadtrip in

alright a trade and a sell fell through, now we are at Or best offer. Let me know what you got to swap or feel like paying