On 2/2/10 11:16 AM, George Graves wrote:
It's an "Alfa Six", a large executive saloon from the late seventies
and the first Alfa (as far as I can tell) to use the 2.5 Liter,
12-valve V-6. It's of interest in the context of this discussion in
that it was NOT an Alfetta. IOW, it had the transmission and
flywheel/clutch mounted traditionally to the front-mounted engine
rather than in the rear of the car (like the later Alfetta sixes)
making it easier to adapt the V-6 to other projects such as the one
that the OP has in mind. This car was never imported into the USA and
the European critics (like the British magazine "Motor") hated it
because it used six single-barrel Del Orto carburetors instead of the
later Bosch L-Jetronic FI and apparently was hard to start, had lousy
throttle response, and as an extra bonus, got lousy fuel economy.
Also, it seems that it was nigh impossible to keep the carbs sync'd.
In 1983, Alfa did a facelift of the "Six" and finally replaced the
troublesome Del Ortos with L-Jetronic.
there were a (very small) number of these in the US legally. Tom Zat had
one, and in
his usual style, my recollection is that he did a callaway twin turbo
conversion on it.
richard
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