Thinking about trading in the CR-Z for a Fiat 500 Abarth, thoughts?

Klasse Act said:
With a little less than a 100 miles on my car while coming home from work Monday night since getting my latest mods installed (ported OEM TB and lightened crank pulley) I had a flashing CEL come on while messing around with a WRX. It flashed for about 10-15 seconds and went away. I never really got into it with the WRX and when I got off of the freeway I found a straight away and stood on the gas and had NO issues.

Then yesterday while going to work, about 10 minutes into my trip, driving normal, the CEL came back but it wasn't flashing, it stayed solid. The road was wet so I wasn't really able to "get on it" but the perf seemed fine to me when I got on the gas as good as I could. After work, the night supervisor plugged in our Snap-On scan tool in and it came up as P0300B (multiple misfire) and we cleared it out.

I plan on driving the car "normal" for a while to give the computer time to maybe learn the new parts. Any thoughts by you guys/gals in the know?
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This is the problem with "tuning". Reliability and drivability is decreased. A multiple misfire code can mean almost anything. That being said, I have seen computers "learn new parts" or CELS disappear permanently without any fix - albeit not common.

GoodLuck with this issue. My guess is you may need it.
 
Thanks Swan, I'm optimistic and that's saying something, trust me😃

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I need to get this all sorted and keep going with the mods, looks like Derek0609 has plans for a new ride in 2 years! I might need a twin engine Abarth it looks like🇮🇹

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Hammered on the car going to work this afternoon, dropped into 4th and went at it...no CEL🙏

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Klasse Act said:
Oh and btw Nick Derek is right, it's a piggy back system, a 3 wife set-up. For that they say to wait at least 100 miles so the ECU learns everything again and we also had to unplug the battery when doing that as well.

I'll be leaving work in about 30 mins, we'll see how it goes, 26 miles since the clearing of the code for misfire.

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3 wife set up, sounds interesting :D. Yeah, give the ECU a chance to adapt to the new parts. Might be worth check the Fiat forums to see if anyone else has had issues with the tuner.
 
Glad the computer works better than talk to txt😝 I'm in fact on a Fiat forum and opinions are all over the place so I'm just going to see what happens.

I get my new shoes tomorrow, pics to follow👍

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I ordered the OBDII reader that works off of my phone but in the meantime we used my buddy Hectours. We datalog'd what my car was doing and everything is within spec. 16 psi of boost, 11.37 AFR one time and 88% throttle opening, which I thought would be 100% @ WOT, learn something new everyday.

I also got my new shoes, went up from a 205-40 to a 215-40 and had to actally trim the d/s rear wheelwell because it rubbed, LOL. I guess the car has tight tolerances. The tires have square sholders, looks awesome and pics coming tomorrow when I clean the car, it's a disaster. They also put Discount Tire tire juice on when I said not to, so it needs to be cleaned off!

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After I got home tonight I did my usual wash but scrubbed the tires down twice to get that damn dressing off that Discount Tire applied to the new shoes, imagine putting dressing on the tires but the car car was dirty, LOL!

I then went upstairs to R&R but R.R. was having none of that, so I went back downstairs to try out the new DP tire coating kit I bought during Christmas. I first sprayed the tire cleaner onto 1 of the 2 provided mf towels to wipe clean the tires further, they dried pretty quickly, so I was ready for the coating. I actually used an extra applicator from my TW tire coating kit because the applicator has valleys cut into them, thus holding the product better, they are awesome applicators! The DP tire coating is a milky white and I suggest you rub the product into the applicator at first so it soaks in because on a new one like I used, it just ran off, a top tip for those of you out there using this with any new applicator.

I applied 2x's and this stuff,although milky white in color, does leave a blueish tint on there but its on there and will sit overnight and I will check it out in the morning. I will pull the car out to take some pics but I have high expectations for this coating as its made by a company I trust, which is DP! I'm going to do a full review and get my own thread going for it.

As with any new tires, there might be some "soaking in" but that will be covered in my review thread, so keep an eye out for that.

Anywho these tires, WHAT A DIFFERENCE from my snow shoes but that's to be expected. My steering now is weighted again, I really like that. The rear wheelwell liner on the d/s had to be modded because the larger tire actually rubbed a bit but no worries, its all good and even if I pointed this out to someone they'd really not notice it. The tires themselves, the Yoke S-drives, are VERY squared off, really look great on my car, giving it a mean look for sure:dblthumb2:

Pics coming tomorrow!
 
Not sure if you can "really" see the difference, I sure can but here's some pics of the new shoes on the freshly wiped down Abarth using DG made up as a QD:

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I'd love to have that rear wiper removed but it was used quite a bit this past winter, gotta wait a couple years before my wife's Mazda 6 becomes my "winter beater" and then I can do things like that...amongst other things:idea:
 
Klasse Act said:
I'd love to have that rear wiper removed but it was used quite a bit this past winter, gotta wait a couple years before my wife's Mazda 6 becomes my "winter beater" and then I can do things like that...amongst other things:idea:
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A lot of MINI folks did that... I was never interested as I used my rear wiper CONSTANTLY. I don't know about the Fiat, but the MINI boot got filthy all the time.
 
Speaking of the MINI Monica, did you see they've come out with a new JCW for the F56? It has 228 hp!! I built one on the MINI site and it came out to about $38K. I bet with an intake and tune that car should easily get over 250 hp!!! I don't think I'll see too many around here but if I do, I'll back down as that car would trounce me:bash:

Oh and BTW, I picked a cool new green for it too, white roof and mirrors, what else, LOL!
 
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