Fulvia 1200 coupe

1400 certainly interesting, shame even the 1300 starting point is rare here & doesn't sound too easy to fit into early 1200 given the floor/firewall revisions to fit the 5-speed box.?

Yes these cars are getting quite rare now. And the mods are not necessarily for the purist. They are quite radical and some people in the past have even been quite rude about it to him. Everything is stuff that the Lancia race engineers could have done to the Fulvia. They were looking into an injection fulvia in the 70's before they concentrated their efforts into the Stratos (even the very first Stratos's had a fulvia engine.)
I personally think its totally great that the car is being used and not kept in a heated garage, only coming out to show off at car shows. He uses the car all the time and has ground up rebuilt it (to my knowledge) three times over. He has had the car for many years and from the days when people would almost throw away Lancias. Times have certainly changed with peoples views on old Lancias.

theres quite alot of great info about these two guys injection fulvias at Pauls blog.  

var1016.blogspot.com

Sadly Pauls car nolonger exsits but Justins is alive and kicking.

Justins car is 1436cc with Kügelfischer mechanical injection from a BMW 2002tii. The engine block was bored to fit the larger high compression pistons. The bottom end was strengthened and so gives 120bhp @7200rpm on the dyno. About 95 HP at the wheels (more than a series 2 1600 HF which is about 82)
Hot camshafts.
Big valves.
Gasflowed head
Bespoke design tubular exhaust manifold with collectors.
11.5:1 compression.  
HF spec modified suspension.
Electronic ignition (123 Ignition)
Lightweight battery
High capacity alternator  
plus lots of others including an auxiliary rad and fan under the wing. 

Got the shocks off for new bushes. Cant afford to replace the shocks too but they could do with replacing. New dunlop wheel cylinders on the way (from a Jag mk2. 1 1/2 inch.) stabiliser rod bushes replaced. Which was a bit head wrecking. The bolts came out fine and I thought it would be an easy job. The bushes wouldnt budge. After the gas torch plenty of persuasion with bigger and bigger tools I had to cut them inhalf with a hacksaw then in half again as they still wouldnt come out. Then the new ones had to have the treatment with a bit of threaded rod and big washers.... wined them in and then wished I had a proper engineering press. But I don't, so had to improvise and got it done in the end.
The rear anti roll bar bushes have been replaced fairly recently so they had a bit of a clean up and were OK.
I busted the bolt on one of the shocks and was able to order some high tensile bolts. The internet is fantastic for stuff like that. Its not something you can get up the road. But easy to order off the net and OK they were a quid each but £5.50 for 5 minimum order and they will arrive in 2 days . I also ordered some UNF 1/4 inch bolts for the caliper to cylinder bolts and £3 for a whole pack of 20 delivered and arrived in one day. Love the internet for that.
New polyurethane bushes for the shocks on the way. 
Got the lights working properly although the "flasher" in the middle of the steering wheel has a short somewhere and will not work. The dip to full is working fine so good enough until I have rebuild the steering box at some time in the future. 

 

From this rusty nasty mess 





To this.... nowhere near perfect but ALOT better.



Alittle touch of filler and some rust eater inside the boot and a smear of seam sealer on the boot line.  

new bushes 

That'll do just fine

Was it as bad as you were expecting?

I'm guessing it wasnt as hard as you feared.

Thanks JP and VW it was a case of dive in and get it done. I think the thought of it was worse than the actual doing it. its not an amazing job but its got new metal in where there was rusty stuff and it will now last a bit longer than before.