Fiat Dino Forum (FDF)

I’m in the middle ( I hope) of a total restoration of a 2.0 Spider, the same colour as yours. When I stripped the doors I found that they had been resprayed and the hinges were the same colour. But when I got them off the doors I saw that they were cad played under the paint. It’s hard to tell if it...

Ola amigos
Has anybody come across the rubber seal on the clutch fork. Part of part number4149106.
I’ve checked with most of the Italian Rubber makers but don’t see it.
Mine had what looked like an old sock hooked into the clip!
Michael

I reached out to Stefan at Auto Verdi.
They only made 6 rods as they didn’t see much interest lately for Dino rods.
Michael

Boa tarde
I have a new clutch plate only for a 2.4.
Does anyone have the smaller plate for the 2.0 that they’d like to swap.
I’m in Portugal
Thanks
Michael

Boa tarde,
Is anybody sitting on a spare original conrod.
I was examining and measuring the rods and pistons and noticed two crack in one of the rods. I’m trying to keep the engine as original as possible.
I’m in Portugal btw.
Thanks
Michael

Thanks Dinoswede, That clears the sodium filled question. Although I must say my 1985 BMW636csi had sodium filled valves. When I sold it, it had 299k miles on it the head was off at 200k and the seats recut. I had a Getrag 5 speed in it and drive it very hard. FYI, I’m just ordering valves & gui...

Bom dia a todos, I’ve just finished stripping the head in my 2.0, it’s what might be considered series 2 as its chassis 665. The very last valve I removed was different to all the others, it didn’t have a dished head. It got me thinking, so I looked closely at them all. I found 4 different valves, t...

For anyone interested in this type of stripping, I’ll post the end results in a month or two. I also found another option besides Carblast in Germany. Pro-Strip in the UK does the same work, except they do not do the dipping in house. But they manage the whole process of taking to a specialist in No...

I concur with Agnatus, My Spider is #00665. It mounts on the cross member. My car is stripped ready to go to paint stripping. I just did a quick check below the cross member. There are no additional holes anywhere that as plate could be mounted. Is it possible who ever told you is confusing the car ...

Well I learnt a lesson today! My coating guy is infact using Zinkagem ( Portuguese) It is the same electrolytic process as galvanizing, except the zinc base metal is more refined. He does 3 colours, silver, yellow and blue. Each glean like diamonds. So I have decided to keep all the colours that the...