Cinquecento Sporting Abarth

This is a little blog to record the restoration of my Fiat Cinquecento Sporting Abarth in broom yellow. Standard...
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Cinquecento Sporting Abarth
Brakes

Master Cylinder Replacement

One of the last of the jobs on the list before I’m almost ready to book her in for an MOT was to bleed the brakes. I was all set and ready to go, to only find out that what I thought was a sticky pedal from the car having no brake fluid in the system for a whilem was actually the mastercyliner stuck pretty solid! There was a very small bit of initial movement, but no way you would be able to bleed the brakes. So, time for a google! After a bit of searching it seemed to look…

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Fuel System

Fiat Cinquecento Sporting replacement fuel pump

The Petrol Pump Challange! I turns out that the petrol pump used on the Cinq is not an easy thing to find and replace! I don’t know if Fiat only used this setup on the Cinq and Sie as I was not able to find a new one and it seems the setup is not used on other Fiat models of the same year. The lower bowl that holds the pump is offset from the top to allow the fuel sender to fit next to it. I could find quite a few secondhand ones but nothing new, so it was…

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Brakes

Fitting the new front discs and callipers.

This week i got the new calipers, so it was time to get the front brakes all sorted out. I struggled to find the callipers as they are 2 parts, the calliper and the carrier and loads of places sell the calliper but not the carrier. But after a bit of searching, I found a complete set on eBay (https://www.ebay.co.uk/str/genuineaudivwparts) and it looks like he also does some other Fiat stuff as well as I saw the rear pistons on his listing. I got all the bits out and started to fit them and then realised I didn’t have the…

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Interior

Nice clean seats.

I borrowed a Karcher wet vac and as the weather was so nice on Saturday it was time to clean the seats, and anything else covered in cloth once I got going 🙂 As soon as I have the interior all fitted back in I will take some pics.  

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Running gear

The parts are back!! and WOW

All the parts have now been collected from the powder coaters and WOW what an amazing job APR Powder Coating have done! These look so good and have an original factory finish to them, but a 100 times better than the old Italian’s did originally. Time to get them fitted back on.      

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Body

Rear Bumper Off

Today i finally managed to get the rear bumper off! What a job it was. The bots holding the bumper to the brackets were so corroded and hard to get to that I had to cut them off with the grinder! I did think that I would just buy some new bumper brackets but man is it hard to find Fiat parts!! Lots of searching and no luck! I think I will see if the Fiat dealer can give me the part number and if they were used on other models also, as searching just for the Cinq seems like…

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Running gear

Removing the suspension ready for blasting

As the weather was nice and mild and sunny today I thought I should get to work on removing the rear suspension ready for stripping as then I can get it off to be blasted and powder coated. Luckily after a soak with some WD40 all the bolts came out nice and easy apart from one that holds the petrol tank in. I will have to get the car up a bit higher to get this one out but I now have all the suspension off and ready to pull apart on the next sunny day 🙂    

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Master Cylinder Replacement

One of the last of the jobs on the list before I’m almost ready to book her in for an MOT was to bleed the brakes. I was all...

Rear Bumper Off

Removing the suspension ready for blasting

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