Mid-Engine Fiat Coupe

Converting a front engined, front wheel drive Fiat Coupe to mid-engine, rear wheel drive.  

Project Status:
  • Ongoing

An Unfinished Project

The original plan with the Bravo engine was for a light re-build with some re-profiled cams, head work, maybe throttle bodies and a re-map to the standard ECU. It would then go back into the Bravo to be my nippy daily driver. This soon spiraled into a full-on race build, with the plan changing to turn the Bravo into a hillclimb car for the production modified class. To get around the limitations of front wheel drive, I planned to use the Couple turbo 5-speed gearbox with "visco diff". Then this came along...