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Fiat 600 with a BMW Motorcycle Engine

Fiat 600 with a BMW S1000RR inline-four

Tihomir Acimic and his son Jovan Acimic compete in hill climb with their custom race car. Some sources say it’s a Fiat 600 and others say it’s a Zastava 750. The Zastava 750 is a licensed Fiat 600 built by Zavod Crvena Zastava in Serbia so either way they are very similar. The body rides on a custom tubular chassis reducing the overall weight to under 600 kg (1,322 lb). The engine is a 1.0 L inline-four from a BMW S1000RR motorcycle that makes 200 horsepower at 14,000 rpm and 83 lb-ft (112 Nm) of torque at 9,750 rpm. Power goes to the wheels via a chain from the S1000RR six-speed transmission. The power-to-weight and gearing gives the car a top speed of 240 km/h or 149 mph.

Fiat 600 with a BMW S1000RR inline-four

Fiat 600 with a BMW S1000RR inline-four

Source: Select Hillclimb video

1 thought on “Fiat 600 with a BMW Motorcycle Engine”

  1. Hi, your conversion looks awesome, is there any chance of getting a plan/diagram of the tubular chassis including dimensions etc. I live in South Africa and have two Fiat 600 bodyshells that I could use.

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