Fiat Coupe 20V Turbo Project + Panda 100HP

Awesome, good luck mate looks like a cracking project.

Envious! I really fancy one of these to fettle.

Officially one week of Coupe ownership today!

Turned up last Tuesday, on time and largely as expected. There's a crease in the LHR wing that I wasn't aware of but as the whole car is pretty battered, it doesn't really matter. A full respray will definitely be on the cards once it's mechanically sound, as it does look very sorry itself at the moment!

So far I've replaced the bonnet struts as using a plank of wood to keep the very heavy bonnet open was getting annoying.

Next step was to look into the electrical issues with the lights and washers. Upon removing the fusebox I found it was quite badly corroded in places, and the pin for the washer pump was burnt around the bottom. Nice easy fix then..

I sourced a replacement fuse box from the local Coupe specialist (very usefully only 25 minutes away!) and fitted it to the car. However when I turned the ignition I had no power at all to any of the body electrics - instrument panel, lights, wipers, windows etc
It would start and run fine however. After a few days of head scratching, checking other fuses and relays around the car, looking at wiring diagrams and mainlt wondering why I bought a stupid project in the first place, I decided to recheck all the fuses I had swapped over. I found one of the 'service' fuses was not blown but did have enough light corrosion on the blades to stop it from doing anything - swapped one in from elsewhere in the fusebox and most of my car came back to life - much to my relief.

I'm going to get a box of brand new fuses and replace all the fuses in the box, then I can properly assess if I've fixed my electrical issues once and for all.
Also, I've been filling the boot full of parts, including a lovely new stainless steel exhaust.

















The offending fusebox

Nice find, good to read about another Fiat Coupe on here.
I have a bit of a soft spot for these cars.

Good luck with the resto.

Cheers
Col.

Hopefully one day, when it’s got more than 75% of the paintwork with laquer on it!

mine had 260bhp and was pretty useful, and it's about the only coupe that can fit real sized humans in the back

Fuses arrived yesterday and have now been fitted, great news is 95% of the electrical issues are resolved - and all of the important ones.
The heater blower even sprang into life which is something I had on my list to sort. The only remaining issue is the RH door mirror doesn't adjust, but the motor whirs when the rear demister is used. I assume there's some damaged wiring somewhere, but as neither are important i'll just add it to the list of nice-to-haves rather then must-be-dones.

Celebrated this positve step to MOT worthyness by cleaning the interior, which is remarkably tidy for 22 years old and really needs nothing more than some of the trims tidying up, and a stereo upgrade.

Now once the alternator and associated parts turn up I can get my mate to do the stuff I can't/don/t want to do, and hopefully then get an MOT on it.
Would be lovely to have it properly on the road in the next month or so.

No real progress on the Coupe for a while now. I have carried out a rear wiper ‘delete’ so it now looks alot cleaner from the rear.
I’ve also found an OE front strutbrace from the latest limited edition models, so this will be fitted in due course. Obviously it makes sense to buy non-essential parts for a car that isn’t driveable yet!

I have had some time to play with my daily and autotest car, my Panda 100HP. I saw another thread about one on RR but as it’s quite modern I thought I’d tack it onto this one and can add more info if people are interested.
Yesterday was fitting on some 15inch steelies with slightly taller 50 profile tyres, I personally love the look of painted steelies and they’ll be staying on all year round!

I love a set of ghetto alloys!