This Genius Dropped A Bmw Motorcycle Engine Into A Fiat 126 And Made It Awesome

We've each heard nan saying, "It's amended to thrust a slow car fast than a accelerated car slow." This highly modified Fiat 126 is nan eventual improvement of that philosophy. While its extended upgrades do amended capacity and make you consciousness for illustration you're driving a rally car, it's still canine slow. That intends you tin get each nan sensations and thrills of driving accelerated connected nationalist roads astatine thing resembling nan velocity limit.

As Tom Woodward tells Twin Engine Corsa, he was looking for a Mazda Miata, which is always nan answer and one of nan eventual slow cars to thrust fast. Instead, he recovered a "baby sick yellow" Fiat 126 pinch pinkish wheels for sale. He recognized it from a section pub parking lot, wherever it had been sitting for years. Woodward "made him an connection I didn't really want to pay," which nan proprietor accepted, truthful now it was his.

Woodward's Instagram account for nan task shows overmuch of nan story. In summation to nan accustomed rust repair, he tackled galore of nan modular tasks associated pinch restoring an aged car, specified arsenic fabricating monolithic aluminum fender flares and having a afloat rotation cage installed by a friend who worked for a small institution called Prodrive. You mightiness person heard of them. The interior besides gained a civilization aluminum dashboard, transmission tunnel, and moreover doorway cards that look amazing. Woodward runs a small shop called Woodward Motors Fabrication Co. Its Facebook page has much pictures of Porsches than Fiats, which says thing astir nan value of his work.

At nan bosom of this build is this 740 cc inline-3 motor from a BMW K75 motorcycle, replacing nan banal Fiat two-cylinder. An inline-4 wouldn't fresh successful nan mini motor bay, but nan K75 motor is fundamentally a K100 pinch 1 cylinder chopped off, making it a cleanable fit. Its 75 horsepower didn't hurt, either, much than doubly arsenic overmuch arsenic nan original Fiat unit, which surely didn't rev to 10,000 RPM, either. Woodward still wants a small spot much powerfulness and has already acquired a mini Garrett turbo to adhd to nan mix. A small spot goes a agelong measurement successful a car that weighs only astir 1,100 pounds.

One of nan advantages of a motorcycle motor swap is that it's an easy measurement to get a sequential transmission. Woodward wholly ignored this, opting alternatively for a six-speed sequential transmission utilized for Fiat 126 and 500 title cars. He fabricated an adapter sheet to put nan 2 pieces together. Another friend wholly rewired nan car, utilizing an ECU Masters machine to tally nan motor and adhd a integer dashboard. Tiny 13-inch Superlite wheels are a large upgrade from nan original 10-inch units, making room for mini four-piston brake calipers successful nan beforehand and two-piston calipers successful nan rear.

This is each nosy to talk astir from an engineering perspective, but really nan car drives down nan roadworthy is what matters most. The video is good worthy watching, chiefly because astatine slightest half of it is axenic motor sounds from that BMW triple. It looks, sounds, and drives for illustration a title car, but it feels for illustration you're going 100 mph erstwhile you're only going 40. Woodward hasn't taken nan Fiat to a way time because he knows he'd beryllium a rolling roadblock for different traffic, but his Instagram shows he has taken it resistance racing astatine slightest once. I ideate it feels for illustration a scene from "The Fast and nan Furious," wherever it takes 3 minutes of movie clip to complete a "ten-second" 4th mile. Driving slow tin beryllium nosy successful itself, particularly successful a car that still feels fast.