Please help me!

    Hallo!


    I'm rebuilding 1050ccm, 70HP engine from A112 Abarth .


    I dont know how to turn "pleuel".I just forget..!! :? There is little hole for lubrification of cylinder walls on one side.
    Should this hole look towards camshaft/to the back of the engine or to the front?


    Thank you very much,


    Andraz


    PS


    I hope you understand my english.

    Do you mean your piston rod? On the side of the rod should be two numbers or letters, these have face away (opposite) from the camshaft accorning to manual.


    Tell us a little more about your car?

    Thank you for your answers friends.


    About my car:


    As you can imagine it is in parts at the moment.
    It is A112 Abarth 70HP 1983 model.
    I'm driving this car for 8 years now.
    Last year I decided for complet restauration.
    I buy new body because old one was prety tired an rusty. This one is like new and will be painted next week.
    There will be just a few modifications on car.
    It will be a little lower and stiffer, CD-30 wheels with Yokohama 155/65-13 for beginning (I'm thinking about 175/50.13 later) , Uno Turbo brakes front and rear. Engine will be just optimized a litle.


    In few days I will post some pictures of car before restauration.



    Have a fun...


    Andraz

    I am very sorry if I have been uncertain.
    It is not completly new it is just new for me.
    But I must say that is in "like- new" condition. Absolutley NO rust, first paint and there was only 59.000 km on the odometer!!


    I bought it in Trieste last year.


    Andraz

    At front end there was no need for any modifications.


    At rear end I trimmed plastic wing extensions as much as I can and bent inner edge of wheel arches. But that was not enough so I used front bump stoppers from Golf I. They are mounted on shock rod and can be covered with original protection, so they are not visible.
    I also added one leaf to rear spring.
    I don't have problems with rubbing any more but thing I don’t like is that there is only 2 cm of suspension travel.
    I'm using 155/65-13 tires now and I'm thinking about 175/50-13 but they are even wider.....


    I hope the pictures will help to understand my explanation :).


    I think that we all have problems with too small rear wheel arches so I'm interested which solution is the best (right) against rubbing?

    Andraz,


    First my compliments, what a beautifull car you have made of it.


    :shock:


    I think your rearwheels rub because the ET-value is very small from your CD30 rims, which means that the rim sticks wider out to the outside.


    BTW, what diskbrakes have you got at the backside and where they difficult to install?


    Best regards ....

    Thanx for compliments everyone.


    Botty: The rear disc brakes are from Lancia Prizma 1,6 (you can also take them from old Delta).You can find them on scrapeyard much easier then Uno Turbo's. It was quite simple to install them because I used complete hub from Prizma. You just bolt it on. You will also need longer brake lines. I used front brake lines from A112. Han brake cable needs to be custom made also. Hand brake works better than with drum brakes and brake distribution is OK. It was much easyer than I tought.


    @Uppercalypse: Plastics are not painted. All they are natural. I spent a lot of time on Italian scrapeyards to find as good as possible....and some Sonax in the end:)