Every time i see these regular old cars, being turned into mad machines, i just want to go back in time, and show these videos to the designers and engineers. And watch their jaws drop.
Checkout what racing X1/9s and other racecars Dallara engineered and produced will probably make your own jaw drop. And the designer, Gandini also designed the Lamborghini Miura and Countach among others, so don’t think their jaws will drop too quickly ;)
Die wirklichen Helden des Motorsports. Das ist pure Leidenschaft. Genialer Sound und wunderbar gefahren. An alle Rennfahrer, wünsche euch immer ein unfallfreies Rennen 👍👍👍
@@Boonexctf Not true at all its same story about LS/RB/JZ they are swaped to 90 perc of cars i Not saying its bad engine but its boring thats all. If i want build race car i just want something that other cars dont have that is true spirit to me.
Not that versed in Ferrari blocks, Romeo were those the ones fitted on the 3l V8 quattrovalve engines? And agreed, very skilled driver that knows his machine.
@@THESLlCK yeah nothing wrong with that at all but I don't know of any engines that big that rev that high. Only 9 liter I can think of is a bored and stroked Viper.
@@Boonexctf there’s quite a few American drag racing engines upwards of 10L that hit 10K rpm without issue and 11.5 with minor strain. The viper engine you’re thinking of is an ARROW 9 stroker. I could give more detail if you like.
Sounds nevertheless like a 155 ti from DTM... Sequential gearbox, n/a 10000 rpm engine... She's only missing 2 more pistons to sound exactly like the 155 ti. And what a machine!!! X 1/9 is the perfect car! Small, lightweight, 2 seat, middle engine rwd!!
im not a ferrari/fiat guy, but i've come here from that video of Chris Harris in a new electric racing Porsche, and this is something we ought to hold onto and cherish as much as we can, whilst we can . . .
What a car. So stable and pretty grippy and fast as well.Very nice driving that i can only descibe as precise and smooth yet fast at same time and braking is on point.Kept the rythm without missing a beat. By the way,change year in description in which you said about host of upgrades planned.Think you wanted to write 2022. but wrote 2021. by mistake.
@@LtdJorge for a car that originally made about 60-70 horsepower to the wheels, making 280hp and still using a stock 1.5L engine block IS pretty damn impressive. Settle down.
When creating Frankenstein engines , the key to block and head "marriage" is usually bore spacing (also called bore pitch). Match the original Lampredi bore pitch with a V8 Ferrari family and you'll know where this is from. Alternatively it may be a Romeo Ferraris head.
many people would be surprised which combinations are possible. BMW bike heads on original Mini engine block, Audi RS2 head on inline-5 TDI block, ... overall anything VAG is like Lego, Kronenburg Motorsport had a package building inline-5s from TT-RS/RS3 blocks with Lambo V10 heads, older MkII Golf blocks could run much later 5 valve heads etc etc
Que belleza... Los coches de los 90 muchísimo más bonitos que los de ahora ...que sin colorines y cables con ruedas sin ningún atractivo ni por fuera ni por dentro .
The X1/9s were designed in the sixties and built in the the seventies and "Road and Track" readers voted it into their top ten sports cars in the eighties My apologies and not being able to write in your language
What a great onboard vid'... and a proper little racer. My old boss had a new one back in the late 70s. They were a stylish, comfy little good-handling car ... and tiny, of course.
@@frostyfrost4094 yes I think you are right. I've never driven or even seen one in person. I'm about to reassemble the engine in hot street specs then I'll do the minimum of rust repair so I can use it for the summer with the plan to do more extensive work on it in the winter.
You know what gearbox he's using? Because coming off the hairpin @ 1:51 I count 6 gears. The few X1/9's that run track days & autocross' here on the east coast of USA are all 4 or 5 speeds. And alotta people may think 280hp isn't a lot but you gotta remember that the car never came with more that 84hp lol.
Ferraris head. Once I get my 74 running with a BV head and forged pistons, I’ll start saving up for a Dallara head kit. Dang this is a 2-4 year project lmao
@@robertwood9572 Maybe with a lightweight tube frame. Most people went the V6 or even Northstar route, I saw one 350sb that caught fire. They are heftier than an X19.
Suspension has to be incredibly stiff to control changes in geometry due to old designs. Only after wishbones and multilink assemblies started getting used were we able to effectively use the full suspension travel while maintaining a consistent tire contact patch.
What I said in my original comment was referencing the old suspension styles that only use two pivot points ie trailing arms, mcpherson struts with no control over geometry changes over the range of travel. The “weissach axle” made an attempt to control the toe change causing oversteer in early trailing arm 911’s. These wild changes in geometry are why the early 911 chassis are so “lively”. Changing the rubber pivot bushings can for a harder rubber, delrin, or a spherical bearing can help quite a bit. The later cars (993 and on with multi link suspension) are quite a bit easier to manage (especially on corner entry trail braking to the apex) which is why they’re more competent…you fight the car less. This suspension design compromise is precisely why the cayman platform is held back. With wishbones up front along with the 911’s multi-link rear suspension, the cayman/boxster platform would…slay the 911. I hate to say it, because I LOVE the 911 design.
What a wicked car!! Love the way it looks. But I am bias being a aw11 mr2 owner and enthusiast. Would love a sequential box in my twincharged aw11, would get me up hillclimbs etc quicker.
@@feral4mr2 sick car, mine’s a race car as well but not quite like that lol. Mine’s also street legal too but it had to be since it’s also my first car
@@I-Akatsuki-I the twincharger was last registered and driven on the street in 2017, since then things got a little too retarded for the street. 🤣 Bought that one in 2006, I still have white one I bought in 1995.
@@feral4mr2 mine’s a white car as well but it’s got bright red numbers on it lol. Bought it like 10 months ago and am super happy with it. Best bad decision of my life so far buying that car
Dam 280hp 690kg 6speed tranny , good lawd thing is a mini missle. GT7 bring this thing into the game same sound same everything don't do not I repeat do not miss any detail.
Good job ! Nice engine ! Engine running should be keep 7500rpm~12500rpm or more higher rpm ! Wow~! Sounds hearing so well ! So goodness ! But, real sad is FIAT no more x-1/9 ! About early days most in 70s and 80s so many FIAT famous sport car, stunning car, even real good family car ? Just when going to 90s they all gone ! Until now only know is FIAT back in small car business ! Competition with BMW / AUSTIN MINI ! Small, luxury, stylish..... But expensive ! About early famous FIAT ? fiat 131, regatta, uno, x-1/9 ? Turn to history and memory !
Pour moi c est une mini Ferrari un bon moteur v6 turbo ou un gros 4 cylindres k20 et y en a asser ta une bombe sur roue en Amérique eux c est la mr2 toyota ou il monte des moteurs vtec twin turbo de plus de 1000 ch elle serve bc pour les depart arreter
It's the way we have always named/called a car. Stop and think Lotus has not designed or built an engine in 20 years and yet we call them Lotus not Toyota. So drop your bias against FIAT. I've owned and worked on my own Fiat's as a youth and I can tell you that FIAT decisions on design and parts manufacturing were not the demise of FIAT, it was the dozen or so endless auto labor strikes in the '70s that destroyed the reputation of FIAT as thousands of FIATS for export where made being sabotaged by implanted communist labor unions idiots or units stopped 1/3 built and abandoned/restarted 3 months later on the line. Italians know how to design cars, build cars, race cars but the one things don't like to do is work for a living and take pride in their work... not so much [circa the 60-80s].
”Ferrari head” doesn’t make any sense at all, it doesn’t fit the 1995cc block. Maybe he means ”Lampredi (twin cam) head”..? In that case, its still a Fiat engine. But a legendary engine
invece del motore 2.0 litri aspirato da 280 cv io ci montavo il motore del deltone final edition n.92+nos 657 cv ed una mostruosissima velocita' attorno hai 320 km/h!?
Why does the car have such a huge wing on the rear. It doesn't need the traction on the straights and the curves/turns on hillclimb courses are invariably too slow for the wing to provide any usable downforce. It's providing more drag than anything else!!
Not every corner is a hairpin. Car is also very light, so some extra downforce is probably welcome. The car is also very fast, so they are most likely on to something.
So there is Ferrari with Fiat engine head?:) Also its 4cyl so how it have V8/12 cyl engine head?.):)Did they cut some stuff out??Just asking... Alos Italian cars are always cool!
@@joe125ful then you would have 2 inline 6 heads. I Guess It could be made into a 4 cylinder head but it would be so time consumimg that isn't reasonable. And yes, i think It has to be a very specific head that has a similar diameter for the cylinders and the same Bolt pattern. Usually it's done with engines from the same family (F.E.: honda k20 head on a k24 engine, Toyota 2jz head on the 1jz...)
Every time i see these regular old cars, being turned into mad machines, i just want to go back in time, and show these videos to the designers and engineers. And watch their jaws drop.
Hahaha me too
Lol?Realize how expensive/unpractical it can be 30 years back?
Marcello Gandini is still alive and so is Gianpaolo Dallara ;)
Checkout what racing X1/9s and other racecars Dallara engineered and produced will probably make your own jaw drop.
And the designer, Gandini also designed the Lamborghini Miura and Countach among others, so don’t think their jaws will drop too quickly ;)
I think the reason why their jaws will drop is because of the fact that you time traveled, and smartphone
This onboard is nuts. Big Props to the driver, extremely skilled.
3:00 he's going so fast that he unlocks rainbow road!
At least he doesn't have Bowser, Princess, and that bastard Yoshi bumping him off the track every second corner... :-D
@@th-pw8pn
Annoying little shots they are, too! 😂
🤣🤣🤣
@@th-pw8pn at least....
That Would have been 100% better
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Die wirklichen Helden des Motorsports. Das ist pure Leidenschaft. Genialer Sound und wunderbar gefahren. An alle Rennfahrer, wünsche euch immer ein unfallfreies Rennen 👍👍👍
There's a guy near me with a K20 swapped X1/9. Such an underrated beast of a car!
Super car killer if left in the right hands
did you underrate that?
Owerrated..kinda boring now.
@@joe125ful only boring to non-enthusiasts
@@Boonexctf Not true at all its same story about LS/RB/JZ they are swaped to 90 perc of cars i Not saying its bad engine but its boring thats all.
If i want build race car i just want something that other cars dont have that is true spirit to me.
The “Ferrari” Head is most likely a Romeo Ferrari Head, bespoke for Fiat SOHC. Pretty skilled driver on a fast car!
Whaat, until what year did Ferrari use SOHC engines? I just can't imagine that after hearing all those high reving high hp Ferrari engines
Not that versed in Ferrari blocks, Romeo were those the ones fitted on the 3l V8 quattrovalve engines? And agreed, very skilled driver that knows his machine.
@Papopleto @kmi187 Romeo Ferrari is a person not related to Ferrari Spa. He's been making X1/9 related race parts for decades incl 16v heads etc...
This is the shit I like to see! Low displacement high powered naturally aspirated engines attacking the hills!
I prefer 4.0L V8 but 2.0L its ok too.
@@joe125ful mate two engines and you have it.
Nothing wrong with a 9L revving to 9K rpm though right?
@@THESLlCK yeah nothing wrong with that at all but I don't know of any engines that big that rev that high. Only 9 liter I can think of is a bored and stroked Viper.
@@Boonexctf there’s quite a few American drag racing engines upwards of 10L that hit 10K rpm without issue and 11.5 with minor strain. The viper engine you’re thinking of is an ARROW 9 stroker.
I could give more detail if you like.
The on board is beautiful to hear and watch. Some good eargasm
Sounds nevertheless like a 155 ti from DTM... Sequential gearbox, n/a 10000 rpm engine... She's only missing 2 more pistons to sound exactly like the 155 ti. And what a machine!!! X 1/9 is the perfect car! Small, lightweight, 2 seat, middle engine rwd!!
Thank goodness for hillclimb racing! Such amazing builds!
im not a ferrari/fiat guy, but i've come here from that video of Chris Harris in a new electric racing Porsche, and this is something we ought to hold onto and cherish as much as we can, whilst we can . . .
EXCELLENT onboard footage, thank you. Very well driven!
What a car.
So stable and pretty grippy and fast as well.Very nice driving that i can only descibe as precise and smooth yet fast at same time and braking is on point.Kept the rythm without missing a beat.
By the way,change year in description in which you said about host of upgrades planned.Think you wanted to write 2022. but wrote 2021. by mistake.
Damn that sounds insane and very loud !
How surprising....with all that power:)
@@joe125ful by today's standards, 280hp is not that powerful. It's plenty for a car this light, of course.
@@LtdJorge for a car that originally made about 60-70 horsepower to the wheels, making 280hp and still using a stock 1.5L engine block IS pretty damn impressive. Settle down.
WOW! I wish my 1982 X1/9 sound like that! Incredible!
Classic Car Body with Extreme Engineering Race Parts.
I can tell that the car is well built and it handled well. Skilled Driver 👍👍
After watching this ,I miss my X-19 . 👍
Sounds like an 80s f1 car... perfection! What a truly astounding car!
Umm
When creating Frankenstein engines , the key to block and head "marriage" is usually bore spacing (also called bore pitch). Match the original Lampredi bore pitch with a V8 Ferrari family and you'll know where this is from.
Alternatively it may be a Romeo Ferraris head.
many people would be surprised which combinations are possible. BMW bike heads on original Mini engine block, Audi RS2 head on inline-5 TDI block, ... overall anything VAG is like Lego, Kronenburg Motorsport had a package building inline-5s from TT-RS/RS3 blocks with Lambo V10 heads, older MkII Golf blocks could run much later 5 valve heads etc etc
Semplicemente FANTASTICA 👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍
I love the x1/9🥰
50 years old this year/ Birthday party next month in Turino
@@frostyfrost4094 cool
@@frostyfrost4094 And still cool little machine.
Que belleza... Los coches de los 90 muchísimo más bonitos que los de ahora ...que sin colorines y cables con ruedas sin ningún atractivo ni por fuera ni por dentro .
The X1/9s were designed in the sixties and built in the the seventies and "Road and Track" readers voted it into their top ten sports cars in the eighties
My apologies and not being able to write in your language
What a great onboard vid'... and a proper little racer. My old boss had a new one back in the late 70s. They were a stylish, comfy little good-handling car ... and tiny, of course.
Bloody hell, what a car.
awesome ride and sound 👌🏻
405 hp/1 ton on weight
Sounds very good as for 4 cylinder.
And a N/A one, which is even more amazing!
Loved the X1/9 even as a 75hp it made mid engine handling affordable and it handled beautifully.
Thank You, I delivered food for years, many in Fiat especially X1/9, grazie e pace
man and machine in perfect harmony, simply fantastic car and driver.
Wonderfully sounding, looking, and (from what it looks like) driving machine. Cars like these make racing exciting.
Speechless, what a machine.
Il camera car è alla salita Alpe del nevegal 👍🏻... Come dice sempre un amico... Nel dubbio... tengo giù!!! 🙂
Just got in from beginning work on the $800 x19 I picked up. This video makes me realize I've got a lot to do.
No,you have the car just get it on the road and watch all the jaws drop .....
@@frostyfrost4094 yes I think you are right. I've never driven or even seen one in person. I'm about to reassemble the engine in hot street specs then I'll do the minimum of rust repair so I can use it for the summer with the plan to do more extensive work on it in the winter.
I'm so glad I'm subscribed to this channel
Who not..its really good one!
I for one absolutely love the X1/9
What a rare car!
Its raspy sound on downshifts almost sounds like a little flatplane V8, love this car
The passenger side window gives me hope that I too can hang in there.
Wooo it looks like f1 with the shifts
You know what gearbox he's using? Because coming off the hairpin @ 1:51 I count 6 gears. The few X1/9's that run track days & autocross' here on the east coast of USA are all 4 or 5 speeds. And alotta people may think 280hp isn't a lot but you gotta remember that the car never came with more that 84hp lol.
Ferraris head. Once I get my 74 running with a BV head and forged pistons, I’ll start saving up for a Dallara head kit. Dang this is a 2-4 year project lmao
splendid driving skill
What a special thing!😎💸
This is what the Pontiac Fiero could have been in another lifetime
I had both, they had so many kits available. Really fun stuff for cheap. Abarth flares and body for Fiat. Northstar for Pontiac...
I think a fiero would be the perfect candidate for a bike engine/gearbox swap. The 2M4 was already a peppy ride with an iron duke and the 4spd
@@robertwood9572 Maybe with a lightweight tube frame. Most people went the V6 or even Northstar route, I saw one 350sb that caught fire. They are heftier than an X19.
That's a sick ass car
Talmente pulito che sembrava andasse piani, bravo
Suspension has to be incredibly stiff to control changes in geometry due to old designs. Only after wishbones and multilink assemblies started getting used were we able to effectively use the full suspension travel while maintaining a consistent tire contact patch.
Stock x19 drive better than stock mk1 MR2. Suspensión geometry was good enough for the almost 20 years span of selling this units.
What I said in my original comment was referencing the old suspension styles that only use two pivot points ie trailing arms, mcpherson struts with no control over geometry changes over the range of travel. The “weissach axle” made an attempt to control the toe change causing oversteer in early trailing arm 911’s. These wild changes in geometry are why the early 911 chassis are so “lively”. Changing the rubber pivot bushings can for a harder rubber, delrin, or a spherical bearing can help quite a bit. The later cars (993 and on with multi link suspension) are quite a bit easier to manage (especially on corner entry trail braking to the apex) which is why they’re more competent…you fight the car less. This suspension design compromise is precisely why the cayman platform is held back. With wishbones up front along with the 911’s multi-link rear suspension, the cayman/boxster platform would…slay the 911. I hate to say it, because I LOVE the 911 design.
Fast little car. SOHC are underrated.
What a wicked car!! Love the way it looks. But I am bias being a aw11 mr2 owner and enthusiast. Would love a sequential box in my twincharged aw11, would get me up hillclimbs etc quicker.
Twincharged AW11 might be the dream for me eventually. Mine is N/A currently though
@@I-Akatsuki-I vids of it on my channel mate. 🙂
@@feral4mr2 sick car, mine’s a race car as well but not quite like that lol. Mine’s also street legal too but it had to be since it’s also my first car
@@I-Akatsuki-I the twincharger was last registered and driven on the street in 2017, since then things got a little too retarded for the street. 🤣
Bought that one in 2006, I still have white one I bought in 1995.
@@feral4mr2 mine’s a white car as well but it’s got bright red numbers on it lol. Bought it like 10 months ago and am super happy with it. Best bad decision of my life so far buying that car
This is actual footage of me going for ice cream: scenic route. You're all welcome.
Great especially the infos
So light 🌹😎
So badass
Holy
Fuck balls !!!! Love it
Bloody monster!
Very talented driver
My god that’s awesome
"6'2" in muh Fiat, Ya really gotta see it.."
His money don't jiggle, it folds 👌🤣
Congratulations Sir. you are officially a badass. My TR7 dies on the way to get milk.
you can clearly hear the ferrari head on the engine
Very cool!
Cool engine
meravigliosa... !!!
Damn Ferrari head soundin kinda funny
I swapped a 13 b Mazda into one of these it was insane turned 9,88 in the quarter mile
What transaxle did you use? It sounds like a beast of a car
Dam 280hp 690kg 6speed tranny , good lawd thing is a mini missle. GT7 bring this thing into the game same sound same everything don't do not I repeat do not miss any detail.
I'm used to seeing fiats 1/9x not running,
So I'm a little surprised.
Vero Mostro.... di efficacia
From which Ferrari engine comes the head?
Not all that powerful but not all that heavy either wouldnt mind owning one😁
Good job ! Nice engine !
Engine running should be keep 7500rpm~12500rpm or more higher rpm ! Wow~!
Sounds hearing so well ! So goodness !
But, real sad is FIAT no more x-1/9 ! About early days most in 70s and 80s so many FIAT famous sport car, stunning car, even real good family car ?
Just when going to 90s they all gone !
Until now only know is FIAT back in small car business ! Competition with BMW / AUSTIN MINI !
Small, luxury, stylish.....
But expensive !
About early famous FIAT ?
fiat 131, regatta, uno, x-1/9 ?
Turn to history and memory !
Pour moi c est une mini Ferrari un bon moteur v6 turbo ou un gros 4 cylindres k20 et y en a asser ta une bombe sur roue en Amérique eux c est la mr2 toyota ou il monte des moteurs vtec twin turbo de plus de 1000 ch elle serve bc pour les depart arreter
Looks almost identical to a Porsche 914
Is this the X1/9 that crashed and got rebuilt??
No,that one is made by Polini.
light is right
👍👍👍👍
That's how guys in my town think they are driving on almost 5 dollar a gallon gas prices
Propably Romeo Ferraris, not "Ferrari". Insanely expensive cylinder head if so...
Is it really a FIAT anymore if all is left of it is a part of the chassis?
It's the way we have always named/called a car. Stop and think Lotus has not designed or built an engine in 20 years and yet we call them Lotus not Toyota. So drop your bias against FIAT. I've owned and worked on my own Fiat's as a youth and I can tell you that FIAT decisions on design and parts manufacturing were not the demise of FIAT, it was the dozen or so endless auto labor strikes in the '70s that destroyed the reputation of FIAT as thousands of FIATS for export where made being sabotaged by implanted communist labor unions idiots or units stopped 1/3 built and abandoned/restarted 3 months later on the line. Italians know how to design cars, build cars, race cars but the one things don't like to do is work for a living and take pride in their work... not so much [circa the 60-80s].
🎧👍👍👍👍👍
”Ferrari head” doesn’t make any sense at all, it doesn’t fit the 1995cc block. Maybe he means ”Lampredi (twin cam) head”..?
In that case, its still a Fiat engine. But a legendary engine
how do you put a Ferrari head on a fiat?
Ferrari 308 V8, is made of Two 4 cyl Fiat engines
@@cosolote that's crazy. thanks I never knew that.
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very high downforce
Fix It Again Tony !
Yeah it was hard work!:)
No need is not a bmw
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Più bella della x c'è solo la stratos che poi è sua zia
Gear ratios are way too short , hes at top speed too soon
invece del motore 2.0 litri aspirato da 280 cv io ci montavo il motore del deltone final edition n.92+nos 657 cv ed una mostruosissima velocita' attorno hai 320 km/h!?
Does this pay well lol
What a noise!!!!!! Sorry What music!!!!!
что за фиат?
Fast estofferrariengineasx1/9
Why does the car have such a huge wing on the rear. It doesn't need the traction on the straights and the curves/turns on hillclimb courses are invariably too slow for the wing to provide any usable downforce. It's providing more drag than anything else!!
Yeah but it looks so cool they give him extra time.
Not every corner is a hairpin. Car is also very light, so some extra downforce is probably welcome.
The car is also very fast, so they are most likely on to something.
So there is Ferrari with Fiat engine head?:)
Also its 4cyl so how it have V8/12 cyl engine head?.):)Did they cut some stuff out??Just asking...
Alos Italian cars are always cool!
a v8 has 2 heads, so by just using 1 you have a 4 cylinder head
🤦🏼♂️
@@CarlosGarcia-ze6rt What if Its from V12?:)
@@CarlosGarcia-ze6rt Edit:Also you can't use any V8 engine head,iam sure Its very specific one..
@@joe125ful then you would have 2 inline 6 heads. I Guess It could be made into a 4 cylinder head but it would be so time consumimg that isn't reasonable.
And yes, i think It has to be a very specific head that has a similar diameter for the cylinders and the same Bolt pattern. Usually it's done with engines from the same family (F.E.: honda k20 head on a k24 engine, Toyota 2jz head on the 1jz...)
Mon beau pere avait la meme verte et noir ont ce marer bien dedans
280hp 😂😂😂