ok,i'll be home in april and the horse itself lies there. i always stand to be corrected. --- 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, 4:42 PM Everything I have read about the car says six single-barrel carbs: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alfa_Romeo_Alfa_6 George Graves '86 GTV-6 3.0 'S' On Feb 2, 2010, at 9:29 AM, ira kaufman wrote: > well i'm here in brooklyn ny and my sei is in my backyard in israel but i'm almost sure there three double barrel dells on them. > > --- On Tue, 2/2/10, George Graves <[email protected]> wrote: > > From: George Graves <[email protected]> > Subject: Re: [alfa] Alfa What? > To: "Richard C. Wagner" <[email protected]> > Cc: "<[email protected]>" <[email protected]> > Date: Tuesday, February 2, 2010, 11:16 AM > > 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. > > George Graves > '86 GTV-6 3.0 'S' > > > > > On Feb 2, 2010, at 7:23 AM, Richard C. Wagner wrote: > > > Hi Gang: > > > > Perhaps I missed something reading the Digest yesterday, but could someone please throw me a bone? What's an Alfa Sei? > > > > > > Rich Wagner > > Montrose, CO, USA > > '82 GTV6 -- > > 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]
