yes i have one with an automatic tranny.i actually have two alfa six engines.you say six two barrel dellortos.hey that would mean twelve cylinders.count again.hey maybe i could put those two sixes in line and form something like the alfa buggati royal.insane i'd say.hey wot?
--- On Tue, 2/2/10, Richard Welty <[email protected]> wrote: From: Richard Welty <[email protected]> Subject: Re: [alfa] Alfa What? To: "<[email protected]>" <[email protected]> Date: Tuesday, February 2, 2010, 11:35 AM 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 -- to be removed from alfa, see http://www.digest.net/bin/digest-subs.cgi or email "unsubscribe alfa" to [email protected] -- to be removed from alfa, see http://www.digest.net/bin/digest-subs.cgi or email "unsubscribe alfa" to [email protected]
