No more BRG...

[— Agent☣Orange —]

No more Miata?

Traitor...err trader.


Very cool Abarth though.

[Chops]

By "straight piped", I meansinde straight pipe running from the turbo out the back of the car. No cats, resonators, mufflers, etc. The Abarth doesn't have mufflers from the factory.

I don't mean to belittle the Abarths greatness, or anything like that. I love the car, and considered buying a Fiat 500 sport for a short period of time. I just couldn't choose a fwd car over a proper front engine rwd car. That is my own personal preference. I don't feel you made a wrong decision, or even a right decision. I feel you made your decision. I'd love to own an Abarth or a BRZ/FRS. Both awesome cars.

If I had never gone to check out the Fiat, I would probably not have anything somewhat negative to say about the BRZ, and for all practical purposes, it's a well balanced, nimble car. I have to say though, the power delivery of that little flat four kind of reminds me of an n/a rotary motor. It's smooth but doesn't come alive until about 5k rpm, more than double that of the Abarth motor.

Granted, I'll miss not being able to kick it sideways going around a corner, but that's about it. I've never been into drifting so really have no need for the ass end coming around whenever I want. With that said, the same way you control a RWD around a corner with the throttle, I can do pretty much the same thing with FWD. I just have to remember to turn the ESC (Electronic Stability Control) completely off. It has two stages of control.

BTW, I was driving my brother's Abarth today and we turned the ECS totally off. From a standing start, I got rolling in 1st then gave it the beans. We got to 75mph awfully fast, and that was shifting at 5k rpm! It certainly makes a difference!

Did you trade the BRG? Sell to someone local? You had some real nice mods going on that car.

Yep, traded it. And yes, I had dumped some major $$$ into it in the past few months in interior mods, new Dunlop ZII tires and a couple other little things. But on the flip side, it was starting to nickle and dime me on other things, a lot more costly things and I just didn't want to deal with that whenever something decided to act up or stop working.

[Chops]

Here's a few good pics...

[— Agent☣Orange —]

Those look great!

[Chops]

A little update.

Neither my brother or I have made our first payments yet on our Abarths, and we already have one mod done. Again, he got his because he liked mine, the intake that is. The great thing about a turbo car, an intake actually makes a noticeable improvement! This one dynos an extra 11 hp and 9 ft lbs consistent across the power band, from 2500 rpm (full boost) clear to redline. It also makes a great noise that matches well with the exhaust!

From this...


To this...


And then my brother's...

[Chops]

In case you were wondering what an extra 40 hp and 70 ft lbs of torque look like for a Fiat 500 Abarth, this is it. It will be here early next week, and I'll be installing it on my next day off.

[— Agent☣Orange —]

Those are awesome lil cars! I'm a bit suspicious of plug-in power but keep us posted.

[Chops]

Those are awesome lil cars! I'm a bit suspicious of plug-in power but keep us posted.

Why are you suspicious of plug-in power? It's a turbo powered car, so all it does really is modify air/fuel across the power band and raise boost up from 18 psi stock to 24 psi. Dyno proven, reliable, safe power with hundreds of tuning hours and hundreds of thousands of miles behind it. Best part, it only cost $700. Compare that to a true JDM header for a Miata, good for an extra 5 - 10 hp at most at a cost of $1200+. I know, I was thinking of getting one for my old BRG.

Speaking of my old BRG, there's a guy in town who owns it now! My friend saw it yesterday at the Win-Dixie right down the street from us!

[WASABI]

Speaking of my old BRG, there's a guy in town who owns it now! My friend saw it yesterday at the Win-Dixie right down the street from us!

For my BRG Homies.

[Chops]

^^... LOL! Werd!