1979 Parts Car - 1969 Resto Project
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fiasco
- Posts: 890
- Joined: Sat Jul 05, 2008 2:10 am
- Your car is a: 1969 Fiat Spider
- Location: Ontario, CA
1979 Parts Car - 1969 Resto Project
What kinds of issues am I going to run into putting parts from a 1979 parts car into my 1969 project?
Steve Eubanks
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1969 Fiat 124 Spider AS | 2108 Fiat 124 Spider Classica | http://calstylestudio.com
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1969 Fiat 124 Spider AS | 2108 Fiat 124 Spider Classica | http://calstylestudio.com
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18Fiatsandcounting
- Posts: 3818
- Joined: Fri Mar 15, 2019 11:23 pm
- Your car is a: 1969 and 1971 124 spiders
- Location: San Francisco Bay Area
Re: 1979 Parts Car - 1969 Resto Project
What sort of parts are you thinking about? Body and interior-wise, the spiders are very similar, and while some mechanical parts are the same, many others are different. Different rear axle, different door handles and striker mechanism (location), different bumpers of course (and their attachment points), different grill, different engine, and the list goes on.
The maddening thing is that many parts appear to fit, but there are subtle differences between early and late that cause them to not work exactly right. An example is the valves: early valves had ever-so-slightly smaller heads. Can you swap them with later valves and be OK? Yes, but it's not exactly right.
-Bryan
The maddening thing is that many parts appear to fit, but there are subtle differences between early and late that cause them to not work exactly right. An example is the valves: early valves had ever-so-slightly smaller heads. Can you swap them with later valves and be OK? Yes, but it's not exactly right.
-Bryan