Anyone know anything about these apart from the fact they rust like fek?

Been offered one cheap!!

 

early ones were 1.3 I think? later ones were 1.4?

Can;t remember too much about them other than they were pretty quick for what they were.

And they rust like fook, but you knew that

 

missis had a mk1 (1,3) turbo for her first car.
Was loads of fun, took it to powers for a set up and was running 145bhp

Doesnt sound alot but considering they only way as much as a fag packet lol.
Suspension defo needs upgrading imo, sound nice with a decent exhaust on them.

Tourque steer like fook though , handled alright, but did feel scary on the m25 in the rain at 130mph

 

ur right the early mrk1's were 1300, ur best of asking fingerz off here as hes had one for years! and its fookin quick as fook! i know that the turbo's are in the most armish place eva!

 

The 1.3 was quicker than the 1.4.
I used to work with a bloke that had one - chipped like mad. went like absolute Fek but gearboxes exploded every 5 minutes

 

i had a 1.4 and it flew, didnt have any problems with it after i blew it up..........
apart from a bus pushin me up the road the wanker!!!

 

what sort of money do they go for now?

Many moons ago I used to have a Punto, so I'm used to braking down once a week!

 

i paid Ł800 for it, and sold it for 2k in the end...
it was a H reg with 70k on it, loads of history!!!
it was mint and sexy by the time id finished

 

got any photos?

 

loads!!!


but sadly no scanner.......


ill try to take some with the cam!!

them unos are cheap to run and cheap to make fast!!!!
i loved mine, it was great toy to throw around!

 

hello chaps

sadly i own a mk2 one of these

few things: - mk1 had lower ratio gearboxes than the mk2 hence quicker acceleration,
mk1 = 1301cc
mk2 = 1372cc
turbo located in the most inaccessable place behind the inlet manifold - almost had a nervous break down replacing these in the past lol!
engines are 7.8:1 compression ratio as standard - cant be bad!
had mine 4.5 years - in that time its not started twice - once was a dead battery which was 2 weeks ago - the battery was 5 years old tho lol! the other time was a dirty relay contact for ignition system.
i have done a few bits to mine with impressive results - last time was on the rollers it made a lot of bhp but not much torque compared to the first time - said i was doing 133 in 4th gear????? think thats wrong so power figures are wrong i rekon!

scorpion full stainless systems are only Ł210 new!!!

can fit a bleed valve and run them at 0.9bar straight away altho turbo will suffer a little after a while but engine and fuel will be fine.

ermmmmmmmm bad bits - rust obviously, and lots of it lol! ermmm, lowering them 60mm makes them slightly less ugly to look at, goes round corners well due to the fact it has absolutely no suspension travel left - can be scarey over bumps on motorway!! bits and information are a nightmare to get hold of - everyone says different things, fuel injection system is very limited by the crap jettronic system with its pants air flow meter, ermmmmmm, 15" wheels 7" wide or larger need arch mods........brakes are quite powerful from standard at 120mph but then the servo seems to 'run out' at roundabouts or crawling so upgrade essential........bigger wheels are a must - will slow acceleration but will stop the copious amounts of 1st and 2nd gear wheelspin that you get with the standard 13" biscuit wheels lol! thats standard cam turbo and boost by the way!

anythin else you wanna know???

oh yeh - BIG plus - ultra cheap insurance and cheaper tax bracket - my insurance was Ł400 year before last a few mods declared with 4 years NCB - this year was Ł500 with all mods declared and 5 years NCB but some 18 year old had wrecked a cossie causing 2millions worth of damage which his insurance had to pay for or sumthin hence big premiums???!?

lol

 

wicked little motors i used to have one too

 

Yeah i remember the days but someone made you sell it !!

 

indeed damn i miss that car it was propper good fun

 

I had Mk1 did the 1.6 tipo bottomend conversion went like stink 200bhp would light the tyres up in 4th

 

told ya FINGERZ was the man to speak to! hes cars the fookin nuts seen it a few times and got lots of vids of it at the pod against me brovs old s2 top cars if ur on a budget!

 

fix it again tomorrow!!!! end of day its a fiat

 

yeh i know its a fix it again timbo! same as fix or repair daily/dodgily - whatever lol!

no one likes em lol! - not even me! specially not to work on!

 

if i was gonna keep my car i would do the 1.6 tipo bottom end route - tourquey!

 

i have had 2 of them great little nippy things

 

My old man had a the 1.3 turbo when I was a nipper - don't remember much about it other than to me it was the fastest thing in the world lol.... He did tell me tho that cluthes only lasted 5 mins each tho

Surprised no ones pointed out that the 1.3 is a carb'd engine and the 1.4 is injection.....

 

1.3 was the best - not sure how they fair in modded form, but very hard to damage in standard form and hilarious fun

I think they rusted badly because they were made in Spain out of old recycled Russian tanks, or was that they old Alfas - can't remember

 

ahh i remember them

 

ummm thats a punto not an uno lol

 

think there very cool cars, fast for what they are, but as said bits are becoming hard to find, and they do rust

my old one

 

heres my old one

 

the 1.3 engines weren't carb'd unless it was a really really earliy one but i think they were all fuel injected.

renault 5 turbo's were carb'd

 

i ve broken up abouth 20 uno turbos all for parts and have owned over 10 iam a specailist on them had them runnig at 300 hores powere the lot from 8 injectorst 2 a huge cosworth turbo and lots more iam a private mechanic and i work on uno turbos for a living iam based in london enfield and they no me by the name of
ABS TURBOS still work on them curently build 3 off them for customers 1 is gona have 2 engines 1 in the back 1 in the front

 

mental stuff

thats what i wanna go into - MOT bay and repairs + odd service for paying the bills and turbo projects for myself and others for fun and maybe some more cash - hard to get into tho

 

fully geard up for it now turbo take no more than 45 min off & on think cossy are more agro to work on but geard up for that now

 

yeh apparently if you get atth turbo's from underneath you can do them in about 45 mins so i heard

i was takin me head off at th etime anyways so i did it that way n it was still a nightmare!

would like to know exactly hoe to do it tho

 

adr500 have you got any or know of any clean UT's for sale ???

 

at the moment no but i by and sell so many of them pm every now and then mk1 or mk2 u after

 

FingerZ!, its not done from under neath the car and you dont have to take the head off its all done fromt the top

 

These engines were demmed too powerful so the boost was reduced.
That means you can up the boost to 1 bar and still have a reliable engine.

I don`t know if the ecu map goes to 1 bar boost though.

Darren

 

0.9 bar is just before the fuel cut if u run a bar you will hit it me n fingerz found that out the hard way lol

 

im really after a mk 2, but either a mk1 or a mk2 would do

 

Like this one in my garage?

 

that looks mint

 

Aslo one of the first small cars to come with rear discs if i'm right.....