Engine swapped Fiat Panda sleeper terrorizes the countryside. Daily use supercar chaser? Obviously.
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- Опубликовано: 20 июн 2024
- PPC's Will Holman has a terrifying experience riding in Barry's rather nuts Fiat Panda that's powered by a twin cam 16 valve Fiat engine. From a glacial 40 horsepower to well into three figures, this Italian fridge weighs basically nothing and surprises a lot of people - and Barry isn't shy to let it rip.
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Mars bars suck anyway
Booooo!
Should have been electric!
@@My_HandleIs_ no
It's no longer an ordinary Fiat Panda, it's now a Fiat Kung Fu Panda
Only way to have made it better would have been to use Shifu instead of Po for the sticker, as he's also a Red Panda.
Kudos to owner for building and using such a cool thing.
Absolutely, and why the hell not? 😃
Barry is a mad scientist when it comes to cars. I grew up living on the same street. It was always a privilege seeing some of the weird and wonderful projects he was working on. His knowledge of cars has helped me out no end. Well done mate!
Well said!
The Fiat Panda. A car that has charm, charisma and character that today's cars sadly lack. Long live the Panda!
New cars are so ugly and boring.
@@tadficuscactus I agree. Don't get me started on the BMW iX and Tesla Model 3!
Bonkers car, and that's why I am here. Overpowered and questionable handling, you don't need 400bhp to have fun.
Amen
It did look more than a little wayward in the corners for sure! Looks like grip was an issue from those punny little tyres also
Also dont need a 12inch schlong but wouldnt it be nice to have that extra bit just for fun??
@@JetsetDruidpunny? So they make Dad jokes?
Once you realise driving isn't about big numbers, going fast and showing off, you can have fun in any vehicle. Unfortunately a lot of people never seem to figure this out. This little Panda definitely needs better brakes all round, and I bet there is a lot of stress and flex on the chassis. They weren't the most rigid of cars, and certainly weren't engineered for that kind of power and torque.
I fully approve! I love that it has been kept mostly stock looking too.
Damn straight
Lovely 😊😊
Will: what's understeer like?
Bill: Yes
It's like a railway, it will begin curving in about a mile after some suggestions to do so
I remember when I put an 1.5 85hp engine from a Fiat Ritmo in my Fiat 128 Rally, this was great fun, too.. :)
That engine! My first car was called a SuperStrada here in the UK, and that thing flew. Also used in the 1.5 X19, which might sound grander than Ritmo! So what BHP did a 128 Rally have as standard? Was it a 1.3, or 1.1?
@@howardlake61781.290cc for 67 bhp
@@howardlake6178 Original with the stock 1.3 and 67 BHP. With the1.5 engine 85HP :)
My first car was also an 85 super!! It was quick for its time. Only 9 years old at the time, but rotten 😂😂@howardlake6178
@@FullBoostJ4 Was that in the UK? Mine was about 8 years old, and I paid £400 for it. I think I got a big discount as my Uncle was one of the very first used car dealers. Despite Jags he could’ve driven home, he was using it himself. Sadly I ran it low on oil and the big ends went. It still just about run, but took 2 cans of Wynns oil treatment a week! I sold it to a friend and it went on to be her first car, and her brother’s, after their Dad found an engine for it! Mine was a Y Reg, 1982. In silver with a blue interior. How about yours?
The kinda car we only see thanks to you guys ! The thing I’ve missed from the demise of the magazine ❤
Glad to bring it back for you 😁
@@ppcmagazine super proud of you guys ! Doing great
I always fancied dropping an uno turbo lump in a 4 x 4 Panda, A project that escaped me :/ would have been a right ole hoot tho :D anyways props to the owner of this one, she's a beaut!
When I saw the first scene of the Panda wheel spinning I just laughed out loud with sheer delight !!! What a car 🤣🤣
Excellent. Best kind of engine swap. Fairly lairy but more than usable. These videos need to be longer!
More to come! Potentially longer too 😁
Brilliant sleeper car, only the sound might be a give away.
Barry's casual level of knowledge on the intracacies of making a mod like this work, and 'I'm a bit handy with a welder', fantastic.
He's a propper PPC bloke
Brilliant as long as you're only going in a straight line and have plenty of room to stop. 😁 The original Panda wasn't very stable when standing still, never mind barrelling in to bends at 70mph plus. 😂 And the stock brakes were awful... you get better brakes on a mountain bike.
What a guy! What a creation! Love it!
Nuts eh?
Everyone loves a sleeper
Oh yes. I've loved stealth cars since a work colleague took me for a run around SW London some 30 years ago one afternoon in his Orion. It LOOKED bog standard.......but he'd taken the1.6 out to nearly 2 litre and fitted a 4 valve head from 'something ' - I can't remember what - and we spent a couple of hours embarrassing various 3 litre sports cars......and a Quattro who only caught up at 80 something mph. What fun. Buddy if you're out there, happy days at Kingston hospital theatres.😂
I absolutely love this channel, and the owners' enthusiasm for their creations.... Please keep up the good work!
Thank you!
Love it! Got a 1986 panda 4x4 myself to enter in the 2025 Pandaraid. Engine will remain stock but it will be lifted a little to improve ground clearance. This video comes right at the time all the replacement parts have been delivered, so helps to get motivated for the work ahead of us. And the suggestion of A3 seats is helpful too.
Enjoyed watching it, nice shows!
Brilliant, as was the magazine. Barry’s car gives more smiles per mile than any of today’s cars! Keep them coming
Appreciate the sentiment. We intent to do just that!
Proper home engineering, love it..
Dare I say, this channel possibly even better than the mag articles? The videos bring another dimension to the cars that you are covering.
Another really good British made sleeper that was built by a bloke in a shed. This is what we want to see.
Top conversion of a fantastically unlikely car.
I'd be putting that turbo on..
Really appreciate that, thanks for taking the time. We're really enjoying making the videos too - hopefully we can keep doing it!
I don't know, the mag articles had great detail pic's that you could pore over. Maybe the video's can include some similar detail shots, then I'd have the best of both worlds.
Lovely, reminds me of an over-powered AX I had yonks ago.
I like that it has plush leather seats, but no headlining..
It was.... tinny to ride in 🤣
@@buggs9950 I had an Ax GT with a head I gas flowed and polished by hand. Made a set of carbs off an old CBR1000 Blade fit with some mods to the mana fold. I think the only thing I spent money on was a Kent cam and that thing went like shit off a shinny shovel. 115 in third and off the clock in 4th lol
That thing was crazy fun, especially when you used to line up against a fiesta rs turbo or the like. And blow his fu*king doors off 😂🤣😉
I love Pandas, I had three in my youth! The last one was lowered with wider 13” wheels and a Subaru Justy anti-roll bar on it, cornered like it was a go-kart. I’ve always fantasised about putting a tuned Punto 75 engine in one, which would give it over 100bhp/ton! The only car I’ve had serious brake fade in, I hope that chap changes his brake fluid regularly!
They’re getting rare and pricey now though, which has put me off 😞
Maybe when my son learns to drive I’ll fork out for another.
Sounds like a good project to do with your son when the time comes 😎
I remember reading on the Seicento you could swap the Punto GT disc brakes. Maybe you can do the same with the Panda, but you'll need 14" wheels, which, on paper, this does not support
Here in Italy pandas are cheap
@@brunotax8623except for Sisley models. Those go for ridiculous prices
My friend Simon's mom had one. He called it a Fiat endangered species.
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Serious petrolhead / nutter! Love it.... 👍👍👍
Spot on 😎
it IS one of those days.... every video is hitting perfect including this one!!!
It sounds absolutely fantastic. I have owned a Panda myself and loved it - great little car.
Yrs ago I thought about fitting a uno turbo engine into one
I knew of a X/19 that had Uno Turbo put in it. I bet that was a flyer.
@@MegaReddevil71 a Fiat punto sporting engine will drop straight in lol
Kudos to the craftsmanship. That's the cleanest Panda I've ever seen.
Meanwhile over at Bugatti this week, they are showing off the new Tourbillon.
This is a far more interesting idea!
Hats off to Barry. I would love to build one of his creations, perhaps in Giallo yellow in hommage to car #83 AF Corsa 499P at Le Mans this year.
It's not a crime to like both.
Legend, I love seeing something different. What a cracking job you've done with this little panda. I've got a 4x4 one behind my garage if your up for a new project I'm in England by the way 😂
Awesome, had first series Pandas inc a 4x4 but this is something else, I was expecting Uno Turbo IE engine swap. Excellent work fella!
It's great to see how car enthusiasts are dedicated and creative. Great car !
Absolutely bonkers Panda, love it! Another top notch video, you're getting better, keep it up. Only issue I have now is Will's choice of footwear 😅
If we become really successful he'll probably start wearing PPC branded sandals 😄
That is awesome , probably my favourite so far on this channel. The owner seems like a top chap as well.
Glad you enjoyed. Yeah, Barry is a total legend 😎
Super job! I learnt to drive in my mum's Blu-Tak coloured 750cc Panda, and it was a hoot to drive, even with that little engine, so this thing must be just fantastic!
Well done, a great little mod that. Not flashy or needlessly powerful but a right hoot to pilot.
Sounded so cool going through the viaduct ! 😁👍👍👍
Ah yes. Fond memories.
I had an old 78 lada estate that I'd dropped an Alfa engine in. After repeated breakages (rear axle, propshaft, gearbox), finally managed to measure 330hp on the rolling road.
Looked awful. Bad.
Had stickers with various jokes on the back to keep people in traffic entertained- such as "what do you call a lada estate? A- a skip. What do you call a Lada with twin exhaust pipe? A- a wheelbarrow" etc...
Reigate Hill on the M25 clockwise was my testing ground. The longest big and fast hill in SE UK.
Fun times overtaking everything. The looks on their faces made it worth it.
Hmm ,went about the conversion the wrong way, should have opted for a 5-speed Rover SD1 box, cut down SD1or Jag XJ prop shaft to a Rover P5B rear axle with if pennies permit a Quaiffe torque biasing diff, better able to cope with all those testosterone drugged Alfa Ponies .
Over twice the poke but original brakes? I had one of these and the brakes were scary bad and mine was only the 750cc version.
This guy is very brave.
Cool car.
Luv and Peace.
Crazy panda .
I was distracted by reading comments as the video ended and i heard the scary bmw bong.
I love this, that looks like an absolute blast and it sounds great!
Looks and sounds like a factory car. What a great job
This channel and car is a great discovery!
You are most welcome!
Mad project! Get the suspension sorted - PLEASE
Love the Linden tree in the back ground and of course the car
What a brilliant little car, Barry has done a brilliant job building it and I love that he uses it most days.
I recognise many of those roads from my Friday motorcycle rides after work, better keep my eyes open for a red Panda.
The viaduct was beautiful, may I ask where it is located, please?
@@DrRussell I think it's the Welland viaduct near Corby Northamptonshire maps.app.goo.gl/GeU71DVyswn8zMGf8
@@DrRussell Seaton
@@robertwilson5660 Thank you kindly Sir
PPC at its best 👌
Allways a Good Ride and Fun !! Sir Your Panda is amazing cool !!
What a brilliant little hedge magnet!
I'm very much enjoying your continued mission to find some of the most madcap cars in Leicestershire / the East Midlands....
Glad you're enjoying our essential automotive findings Andy! We're always open to fresh leads in Leicestershire/the East Midlands if you have any - or even in far flung places such as the West Midlands and potentially further afield if it's mad enough 😂
Brilliant job done there. I bet he’s smiling all the time when driving it.
Much better than an expensive super car .
I built a 1.4 16v Cinquecento, so a very similar engine to that one but from a Stilo. It was an absolute hoot to drive, but the thought of that power on stock brakes is scary. I had Punto GT brakes up front, and did a rear disc conversion with Uno Turbo brakes at the back.
Absolutely bonkers. Wonderful. Sounds incredible
That is a lot of fun! I've rented the standard model in Italy and Spain, they just need more power... and that's what you've done. I have an Abarth 595, a lot of fun, but your Panda would be even more.
What a ball of mental fun that must be. And it looks so original. Maybe the exhaust gives a hint, but nothing else. James May would love it, be he might be a bit unattainable, but Auto Sportivo would definitely do a video with him and that mental Panda 💚🤍❤
Love it. the stock wheels complete the sleeper look. so awesome
Sounds nice I like it the vid popped up watched it and now you've just got a new subscription
Welcome - glad to have you here 😀
Cracking video and a great little Q car. Glad to see you stuck with the safety footwear😂
Wouldn't go for anything less 😆
I loved my 1988 Panda 1000 Super, even though it wasn't as rapid as that one.
Great video guys !
Thank you!
this engine and car go together like a burning house but it`s a bloody riot !
Looks and sounds like a lot of fun! 😊
Amazing! Looks like it could do with some coilovers or something to flatten it out in the bends.
PPC proper! That noise is so addictive it would get me into bother lol😂
I was doing 30, honest officer
But it’s only a wee panda orrificer😮
Hahaha. Love this. I used to have a Panda 4x4 , which somehow got an Abarth engine conversion. Funny that!
This was one of my first cars back in the day.
What a daft thing to do to one.
Love it.
Class wee car! Loving these videos.
Glad you like them! Plenty more on the way
Love a panda, and this is nutty, but still sensible. Somewhere, I have a picture or maybe video of a nearly as mad Panda that came to PPC int the park, 2008/9 I think. Same year the Rolls got its roof chopped if i remember right.
Fantastic build, love the Panda. I have a Fiat 128 Familiare that I'm cramming a Honda Fit/Jazz 1.5 vtec powertrain into. Fun light cars rule!
Oh that sounds brilliant. Give us a shout when you're done!
We had a red one back in the mid 90's. It was from '84, and only had a 750ccm engine. But still quite fun 😊 Every winter I would get up early and blow dry the spark plug area, so it would start, so my wife could go to class!
I wish we had kept it 😅
Cool. My first car was a black Panda. 1991. Fun car to throw around.
Loved the zoom in on abba's finest lol
We couldn't miss featuring that now, could we? 🤣
Made me laugh 😂
😲 now that's a sleeper. Awesome work
It sure is!
My granparents used to pick me up from school in one of these, i used to ask if they had wound the elastic band up as it was so slow. My cousin drove it back from france with a matress and a surf board in/on it.
I once sat in a stock Fiat Panda doing 80mph and it was the scariest thing I’ve ever experienced in a car, scarier than driving an E60 M5, scarier than being right hand side passenger in an E30 M3 being driven by a crazy navy helicopter pilot down Cornish country lanes. The whole thing was shaking like a leaf and felt utterly unstable. This thing must be utterly insane to be in.
Heck, underpowered and sketchy handling is fun, too! I had a bone-stock Renault R8 in high school. With about 40hp, RWD and skinny, decades-old Michelin X’s, full-lock oversteer in the wet was hilarious!
Class. my first car when i passed my test in 92 was a Panda. 999 FIRE engine, F41 TRD. So crap and basic it was real fun to drive, probably weighed the same as 2L of Coke and a Mars bar.
Looks like Fiat put that engine in there themselves so great job mate, would love a drive of her.
sound's great, totally unexpected sleeper
I've had a couple of these. A blue 750 which was as slow as it sounds and a white 1000 which beat a Mk1 Fiesta 1100 in a flat out drag race in 'Mexico'- 101 mph indicated. I bet a twin cam of these would be incredible.
Love this. Might be my favourite one yet.
Cheers Nigel!
Lightness makes everything much better.
Loads of fun for little money. His engine is the same as the new panda 100hp. It's the same core unit I've started with I'm currently building a Punto 188 sporting for the hills, originally a 1250 75hp as they all were. Ratios in the 6 speed box are still too high and stuck on 148 bhp from the now 1397cc motor. Needs bigger valves but at £68 per valve x 16, just can't justify it for another 15-20 hp.
Club motorsport as it's always been🙂
I used to think the fold back sun roof on these was awesome as a kid!
Love this this is what modding cars is. Need my mito too sound like this. 😎🙏👊✌
Having driven for 100,000 km a seicento (same weight, same size tyres, same brakes, same suspensions), the thought that this guy drives around with over double BHP than what I had available with the stock 155/65 R13 (or something like that) makes me shiver.
The best thing I did for the Seicento was to buy a set of Nankang 175/50 R14. Revolutionized the handling
Love this build, genius… 🫶👊💥
That's what ppc was all about miss the magazine it was my bible 😢
Hope we can keep providing biblical content for you to soften the blow! We miss the magazine a lot (of course) but it was just no longer sustainable. Happy that we're able to do this though!
Yep miss the magazine too, I really looked forward to getting it every month.
Had loads of Panda's, they need lowering, in this ones case lowered with engine lift.
One of mine ran on bump stops and cornered like go-cart on Norfolk roads.
I'd defiantly have another one, if I could find one.
Barry , a legend , top bloke
My first 2 cars were panda 4x4’s . All ways loved fiats after being in a 131 when I was a kid. I have the limited edition stilo no 13 now, will never sell it.
I thought you may of fitted a engine from a much bigger fiat such as from a regatta etc
Brilliant ! , what a sleeper!, i love panda's ..this one is crazy lol ( wish it was mine) well done to amazing mechanic 10/10
Glad you like it.. More to come!
Brilliant car, brilliant engine, brilliant video thanks 👌
So takes me back to 1996 at college! We all had 1.0 cars. My metro but my mate upgraded from a 750 panda to a 1.0 panda and we couldn't keep up
Well done! In germany it´s nearly impossible to get that steet legal.
Fantastic, who doesn’t love a proper sleeper? 👍🏻
Glorious sound but I see it still has Buckaroo ride quality. As a former Lancia Y10 Turbo owner, that looks very familiar to me.
Well that was certainly a good introduction to the channel for me, a wolf in a mouse's clothing!
Welcome! Glad you enjoyed it - plenty more where that came from
I wish I'd known him when I had my Panda !
Never too late to get another...!