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Dec 30, 2023 21:34:25 GMT
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Metalshapes mentioned the FIAT 133 (SEAT built rehash of the 850) I built using a 100ish bhp SIMCA 1294cc engine and box... I sold it with a standard ish 1118cc one. The box fitted easily and the 850/133 driveshafts slot straight in using the same couplings to the diff. There is a small SIMCA tuning scene in the UK... message me for details. I did fit a 1590cc Honda CRX twin cam in a trackday SIMCA 1000. the Honda engine rotates anti clockwise like the 850 and rear engined SIMCA units. Unfortunately that seemed a 'bridge too far' for the SIMCA boxes, the CROWN wheel & pinion being the weak link. photo of Honda transplant on a past SIMCA 1000 of mine.... Running on Dellorto carbs from a 'dead' Alfa. Also my 133/SIMCA at Santa Pod against my SIMCA/Honda. The SIMCA 1000 was derived from a rejected design study for the FIAT 850..!!
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Dec 20, 2023 16:42:08 GMT
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Same problem for me as well.
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Nov 24, 2023 13:53:32 GMT
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Nov 14, 2023 22:39:09 GMT
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Nov 14, 2023 21:11:18 GMT
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MATRA club stand next door.
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Nov 14, 2023 19:23:20 GMT
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redratbike I edit the mag for SIMCA Club UK and am doing the next issue. Will put a free ad in there for your steering wheel if you wish. Pm me any contact details. Also, my Brother and sister in law edit the MATRA Club mag and I'll pass it on to them.
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Nov 14, 2023 15:50:15 GMT
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Sept 23, 2023 21:41:13 GMT
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Sept 22, 2023 21:15:59 GMT
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Sept 12, 2023 23:14:23 GMT
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No problem. While the sump and outer fittings for the transverse engines like yours are different from the more upright versions in the rear engined in line SIMCAs Which also rotate in the opposite direction, The Head, block, crank, pistons and rods can be used in either version. The 1294cc 7CV engines are used in the SIMCA Rallye 1,2 and 3 which were and still are widely used in competition on mainland Europe, so there is demand for parts donor engines. There's a number of lively facebook groups dealing with the SIMCAs and MATRAs.... Simca Rallye and Bagheera Cafe to name just two. Photo shows the rear in line installation on the SIMCA Rallye 2 which uses a pair of 35PHH Sloex twin chokes in place of the twin Weber DCNFs on the MATRA Bagheera etc but still producing 82bhp from the 1294cc.
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Sept 4, 2023 22:42:46 GMT
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Great day on the track in the SIMCA, Richard, my passenger went there in his Morgan 13 speed trials special
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Sept 1, 2023 19:53:40 GMT
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Here's the number on my '71 1204cc engine 128422.6/7CV. I think the 6/7 was because the 1204 was a sort of in between engine... the 6CV being the 1118cc engine (as fitted to most SIMCA 1100s) and the 7CV the 1294cc engine which went on to power MATRA Bagheeras from '78 and the SIMCA 1100Ti. So if yours just has 7CV it is a 1294, by far the most widely used engine in the range. The 1204 Special with the twin DCNF carbs was only made 1970 and '71 producing 75bhp. Then SIMCA replaced it with the 1100 Special with 1294 cc giving more torque but on a single DCNF carb still producing 75bhp. Then, in '73 SIMCA Brought out a 1294cc engine on twin DCNF Webers producing 82bhp for MATRA to use in their Bagheera. They used this engine in their own SIMCA 1100Ti soon after. So your engine appears to be from either of these cars although I believe some early Chrysler Alpines (SIMCA 1307/8 on the Continent) came with this twin carb engine. It is likely to have come from a car built between '73 and '78. All the above came with a 4 speed gearbox.
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Sept 1, 2023 16:59:34 GMT
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Got the SIMCA in the first photo of this post loaded up ready for the straight tomorrow.
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Aug 31, 2023 10:16:35 GMT
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I have a 1204 engine in the garage. Will check the numbering on that , although I need to dig it out from under loads of other stuff.
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tim23 The earlier SIMCA 1204s and MATRA Bagheeras had the longer oil filler neck. They did away with that mid '70s on with a cap directly on the rocker cover. My '77 1100 (dark blue car in photo) has an engine from a late Bagheera but I've fitted a rocker cover from an earlier engine making filling the oil easier on the slant mounted engine. The 1204 and 1294 versions of the engine will have a long engine number in the block somewhere above the fuel pump. at the end of the number you'll see 7CV (old french HP rating) if it's a 1204 or 1294. If it's a 1442 it may have 8CV but numbering changed on later engines. The longer stroke 1442 engines have a taller block which can be identified where the bellhousing meets the block. The smaller cc engines have the face of the block only just above the top of the gearbox bellhousing whereas the 1442 block is a few cm higher. Have both types in the garage and will measure up the difference and post it later.
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Aug 21, 2023 22:41:01 GMT
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The engine is SIMCA. The twin DCNF Webers were fitted to a 1204cc version in the short lived (1970 to '71) hot hatch version of the SIMCA 1100. Later a 1294cc version was used in earlier MATRA SIMCA Bagheeras and SIMCA's own 1100Ti (a model never sold new here in the UK). Later MATRA Bagheeras used a 1442cc longer stroke version of the twin DCNF engine as did SIMCA Spain versions of the SIMCA 1100Ti. We've made one using a SIMCA 1100 fitted with an engine from a scrapped Bagheera... Also some early Chrysler/SIMCA Alpines (SIMCA 1307S on the Continent) used the twin carb engine. Photo of engine from a 1204 Special on our SIMCA Club UK stand at the NEC Restoration Show back in March.
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Aug 21, 2023 19:58:51 GMT
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The driveshaft job on this is next on the list after checking the racecar over and loading it up ready for 'Sturgate Straight' on 2nd sept, sorting an electrical problem on the 1200S coupe and digging my SIMCA 1100 out of 'mothballs'. Some say I've got too many cars... wouldn't have it any other way..
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Aug 19, 2023 22:30:24 GMT
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Looks like Sturgate Straight is on for 2nd September now. My orange SIMCA is on the list for that.
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