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After having been offered a 126 by merrescmitt owner i've been doing some research on the car itself and need some help if anyone can give it to me.
Due to it being a 126 bis - the water cooler jobbie- the tunning potential is pretty much nil- an exhaust is possibly the only thing do-able.
Now my thought is, or rather my situation is, my significant other doesn't have any transport at the moment. She's limited to having a fairly new car- don't ask... its complicated (lol), so she'd have the clio if i could get decent uni transport. So I have had a night of deep thought. Meshescmitt owner was saying that there was room to stick most engines in there- from cinq 900's to 1.1 sporting's so i got to thinking- if theirs that much room would it be possible- even feasible to transplant a gen 1 600cc lump from a mk 1 or early- single 02 sensor smart with gearbox and all into it?
I'd like to go for a smart enigne as I'm getting really fed up of having a manual gearbox again, traffic in leeds is awfull so an auto would be great- I know that they're flawed, but they do what I want them to do!
This is roughly what a 126 looks like- with the engine placed way out back.
A lovely libray picture of the polish fsm 126's
Right- thats an aircooled... (i think!) 126 lump- give a fair idea of size.
This gives a fair idea of the room that i'll have play with.
As per usual I really don't want to pull my finger out of my pocket more than needed, but i do recognise the need to have it done properly. Does anyone know of anyone who could possibly do this?
I don't want a mad arse racer, but i would quite like a fairly swift everyday car that makes me smile, that gives me the same feeling as the beast did when tooling around leeds!
I don't want to start ringing round yet as its only pie in the sky until i have a. the car, and b. the engine.
I have thought about z-cars (the guys that did the smart/bike conversion for the likes of BIG and SRU, or possibly asking ian for advice (not that i haven't bothered him enough in the past with pointless phone calls!). Can anyone help me?
Many thanks.
Dave
Due to it being a 126 bis - the water cooler jobbie- the tunning potential is pretty much nil- an exhaust is possibly the only thing do-able.
Now my thought is, or rather my situation is, my significant other doesn't have any transport at the moment. She's limited to having a fairly new car- don't ask... its complicated (lol), so she'd have the clio if i could get decent uni transport. So I have had a night of deep thought. Meshescmitt owner was saying that there was room to stick most engines in there- from cinq 900's to 1.1 sporting's so i got to thinking- if theirs that much room would it be possible- even feasible to transplant a gen 1 600cc lump from a mk 1 or early- single 02 sensor smart with gearbox and all into it?
I'd like to go for a smart enigne as I'm getting really fed up of having a manual gearbox again, traffic in leeds is awfull so an auto would be great- I know that they're flawed, but they do what I want them to do!
This is roughly what a 126 looks like- with the engine placed way out back.
A lovely libray picture of the polish fsm 126's
Right- thats an aircooled... (i think!) 126 lump- give a fair idea of size.
This gives a fair idea of the room that i'll have play with.
As per usual I really don't want to pull my finger out of my pocket more than needed, but i do recognise the need to have it done properly. Does anyone know of anyone who could possibly do this?
I don't want a mad arse racer, but i would quite like a fairly swift everyday car that makes me smile, that gives me the same feeling as the beast did when tooling around leeds!
I don't want to start ringing round yet as its only pie in the sky until i have a. the car, and b. the engine.
I have thought about z-cars (the guys that did the smart/bike conversion for the likes of BIG and SRU, or possibly asking ian for advice (not that i haven't bothered him enough in the past with pointless phone calls!). Can anyone help me?
Many thanks.
Dave
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