Mods on my little Punto T-Jet

[cRiPpLe_rOoStEr]

Originally Posted by Megdriver024

This car is from Italy.

I used to think Fiat assembled the Punto there in Serbia, as it did with the previous generation. IIRC Serbian Puntos were sold in Chile.

[Megdriver024]

Originally Posted by cRiPpLe_rOoStEr

I used to think Fiat assembled the Punto there in Serbia, as it did with the previous generation. IIRC Serbian Puntos were sold in Chile.

The Punto II was assembled in serbia. The factory was then retooled for the 500X.
The Melfi factory in Italy produced the Grande Punto for the European markets I think.

[Megdriver024]

Originally Posted by freebeard

Wikipedia says 3,760 mm (148.0 in), same as the XFi. The slant-back Dasher can't compare with the VW Squareback.

Do you have further plans?

Well for efficiency there is a piggyback device witch can alter spark timing on LPG since it burns differently to gasoline. That could shave a whole L/100km from the consumption on gas.
I am still a bit afraid as it is a high strung little turbo engine, so it is easy to melt a piston or two if things do not work out as intended + mine is remapped for more power..

Another area I will look into the summer is weight.. But I could use some advice on that..

[freebeard]

Spare tire delete.

[Megdriver024]

Originally Posted by freebeard

Spare tire delete.

I don't have a spare wheel, I have a nasty donut shaped pressure tank for the gaseous fuel in its place. So that is even more weight which i can't remove.

[cRiPpLe_rOoStEr]

Originally Posted by Megdriver024

The Punto II was assembled in serbia. The factory was then retooled for the 500X.

IIRC the 500X and the Jeep Renegade are made in Melfi, while the 500L minivan is made in Serbia.

[Megdriver024]

Originally Posted by cRiPpLe_rOoStEr

IIRC the 500X and the Jeep Renegade are made in Melfi, while the 500L minivan is made in Serbia.

Yes, my bad. The 500L is made here, in the same factory where the Fiat 128 clones were made during socialism.

[cRiPpLe_rOoStEr]

Originally Posted by Megdriver024

Yes, my bad. The 500L is made here, in the same factory where the Fiat 128 clones were made during socialism.

I have never seen a 500L, but the 500X being available in neighboring countries such as Argentina and Uruguay renders it not so unlikely to be seen on a beach on summertime. When it comes to older Fiat clones made in Serbia, I was more aware of the 127 clones.

[Megdriver024]

These are the cars the Crvena Zastava factory made, and were directly based on the Fiat 128

https://sr.m.wikipedia.org/sr-ec/%D0...0%B2%D0%B0_128

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zastava_Skala

In 1979 they started production of a Bertone designed model under a new brand name: Yugo. The concept, size and category basically were copied from the Fiat 127.
The drivetrain was similar to the 128 clones except for the weakest model the Yugo 45 this used the Fiat 100 engine in 903 ccm form.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yugo

[cRiPpLe_rOoStEr]

The business model of some Fiat licensees and even fully-owned overseas branches is quite interesting. There were times when the Argentinian operation was not fully owned by Fiat, and the 147 which is a regional derivative of the 127 had 124-based engines in Brazil and 128-based ones in Argentina, and at least in Uruguay some versions locally asembled from CKD kits resorted to the 903cc engine. Well, considering other Fiat models assembled from CKD kits had some parts supplied by Zastava, who knows if a Serbian-made engine had ever fitted an Uruguayan 147...