New Daily Driver has arrived....2013 FIAT Abarth

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I'm just giving you hipsters a hard time

Econ

ZCarMan - That's quite a collection you have there.

I am considering purchasing the Magnetti Marelli ECM chip for the car. Stock dyno shows 155 at the wheels, the ecm brought it to 201 at the wheels. almost a 50hp jump, and the product is made by FIAT

$800 though.

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kenchan

at the expense of what? (other than 800)


the abarth is only about as fast as my '12 honda fit MT, so it needs more power if im going to get one.

ZCarMan

Make sure you get on the FIAT forums. There are tons of folks who have had good experiences with the MM tuning box. 201 at the wheels is more than enough for an Abarth to make it fly. I tried another tuning box and wound up returning it and it remains stock.

FYI, a problem that some folks had last year when the Abarth came out was with the clamps on the intercooler hoses not being secured enough and losing boost as a result. The FIAT forums have all kinds of good info though on that stuff. Congrats and Enjoy! Also, if you get the SRT driving experience make sure you do it. Its worth it. The SRT folks put on a good event and you get to record it all and take it home at the end. Its isn't hard core track stuff, very easy (multiple events like autocross, drag, etc.) to accommodate the non-track types. Still we enjoyed the event and my Wife can now say she tracked an Abarth and drove with the SRT folks!

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Jon

kenchan

yah, i think i saw an article about a recall or tsb or something for abarth that fixes the boost.

ZCarMan

They did come out with an ECU fix to address a low boost problem and it worked great. One guy lost boost because of the loose intercooler clamp while accelerating onto an onramp in traffic. Almost got crushed by a Mack truck. When the boost works properly, the FIAT actually pulls hard. Driving on the interstate was a breeze and getting 31MPG in sport mode was nice.

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kenchan

awesome. sounds

i definitely want to get one when i retire my G.

neighbor down the street got the sport (?) one. he will be jelly.

ZCarMan

Yeah, its funny when you look at the sport or non sport FIAT compared against the performance boost you get with the Abarth. They are two completely different cars.

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kenchan

that's wat i like to hear.

im not very fond of the regular 500's..

ZCarMan

I remember I was going through the drive-thru at McDonalds and the manager was an older gentleman. He looked at the Abarth and said, "So, you got the J-Lo car eh? I about spit my coffee out of my mouth at him! LOL I told him, "No, not the J-Lo car but the hot Italian chick with the black and red dress car!

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LakeShow

Nice little ride there, loving the combo and set up!! Good choice!

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