Skip,
My old '86 Spider had the innards of the cat. converter disintegrate and
block the exit...TWICE ! (I did a postmortem to see why the second one
failed; there were just chunks of the honeycomb inside). I must admit it
was an aftermarket cat since I just couldn't see paying for a OE model for a
car that didn't have much time left on the planet.
The GTV has an IAP stock version muffler system and it could be the problem
but I don't think that it has any fiberglass inside. Aren't there just
baffles in there ? I'll bang on the two mufflers and see if anything is
loose inside.
Anyway, I'll keep it in mind the next time it happens.
Thanks,
Bruce
On Mon, May 9, 2011 at 1:54 PM, skip <[email protected]> wrote:
> Bruce and all,
> I have seen this a couple of times. Once on a GTV when the fiberglass
> from the muffler came dislodged on the way to a track event at Roebling
> Roads and plugged the exhaust behind the rear muffler. We just unbolted the
> rear pipe section and rode the rest of the way with one hand on the floor
> board to make sure we didn't set it on fire ;-)
> Another time on an American car (Ouch, I just bit my tongue!!). A
> baffle came loose inside the muffler and would periodically flip up and
> block the muffler outlet. Then it would fall back down and everything would
> be fine until it did it again.
> Darn, aren't intermittent problems fun to diagnose??
> Skip Patnode
> '67 Duetto
> Norfolk, Va.
>
> Date: Sun, 8 May 2011 11:08:58 -0400
> From: Bruce Giller <[email protected]>
> Subject: [alfa] loss o' power in GTV
>
> Yesterday I experienced a very strange occurrence of loss of power whilst
> driving my '73 GTV. I had just accelerated kinda hard, then let up on the
> gas as I quickly approached the car in front of me. As the car in front
> turned off the road, I tried to accelerate but nothing happened. The
> engine
> did not rev at all but was still running.
--
to be removed from alfa, see http://www.digest.net/bin/digest-subs.cgi
or email "unsubscribe alfa" to [email protected]
