No offense taken, Ira.
George Graves
'86 GTV-6 3.0 'S'
On Feb 2, 2010, at 1:41 PM, ira kaufman wrote:
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
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