sorry george no offense,as i remember as i said there in my backyard at home and i'm hereso i can't go out and see if the dels are double or single.i think they were double.
--- On Tue, 2/2/10, George Graves <[email protected]> wrote: From: George Graves <[email protected]> Subject: Re: [alfa] Alfa What? To: "ira kaufman" <[email protected]> Date: Tuesday, February 2, 2010, 4:39 PM No, I said six SINGLE-barrel Del Ortos. Read it again. George Graves '86 GTV-6 3.0 'S' On Feb 2, 2010, at 8:56 AM, ira kaufman wrote: > 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] -- to be removed from alfa, see http://www.digest.net/bin/digest-subs.cgi or email "unsubscribe alfa" to [email protected]
