1984 Fiat Ritmo 105 TC from Croatia - Comments

I bought the car at an unbelievably cheap price considering the fact that the body was completely restored and painted in a beautiful sky blue metallic. However, the engine was shot.

I rebuilt the engine, bored and polished the head, put Alquatti cams on it, larger carb etc.

I also converted the brakes - front to vented discs, rear from drums to discs.

After this the only problem I had was with the poor front suspension - the engine easily overpowered it and in corners it was oversteering like crazy even though it was stiff as heck.

The seats were awful, and build quality was less than desirable, even taking everything into account.

Very good fun to drive, at that time the best car I could have.

With the applied mods it was a real purist car - loud, stiff, quick, but not easy to drive in everyday city traffic.

It accelerated like a bat out of hell (I took many smiles off the faces of GTI, GSI, S16, HGT and other wannabe racers' drivers), top speed was limited by the short ratio gearbox (210 km/h at 7300 RPM).

However, the consumption was horrendous for my tiny student budget - in the city 12 - 16 l/100 km, on the open road - 9 - 12.

I'm very exciting of your 105 TC. I have a Ritmo 60 L and today I bought an engine 105 TC and gearbox, now I'm trying to find documentation on a 105 TC to mount that engine in my chassis. If you have one, especially for the engine and gearbox and front side of the car, please send it to me tonyco@netel.bg I'm from Bulgaria, thanks a lot. Tony.

I had the pleasure to own a Ritmo 105 tc bck in 1994,this was in Italy;I have to say that I`ve never driven a car with such a caracter... the engine felt like a Alfa Romeo 75 2liters, and going like one at the very least..!Acceleration was trmendous considering the 105 BPH, but in 4th gear was all the exitement after you reached 4000rpm...below that was just nothing short, but dreadful, but passed the magig 4k the engine changed so much you may have tough was a turbo beneath... I simply fell in love with it, altough horrendous consumpition and very very stiff setup never make it an easy car to drive to long distances. Love it or leave it, but a one of the true GTI killer considering the price at the time for a wee 1.6...goodbye my love!Carlo.

My father has an fiat ritmo 105 tc, but it doesn't works for 7 years because it needs money to fix it... I love thath car, but I'm am not happy to see her leaing broken in the garage, sometimes the memoris with thath car makes me happy, but it makes me cry also because I know thath I meybee I or he will never afford to fix it... if somebody wants to help me, please contact me at cipricanu@yahoo.com. I REALLY WANT TO DRIVE AGAIN THATH CAR...

I have a 105tc and I want to add more power to the engine. if anyone has a bigger carburetor / cams, or other mods that fits on the 105tc, please contact me at this email : nutzu_gotgame@yahoo.com.