Gentili Alfisti Ciao a tutti. As David says I have been lurking mainly because all of my spare time has been taken up damage repairs to house and garage where very valuable Alfa parts got trashed by water entry while we were away in Italy and other places last year.
Yup, you better believe it we have every brand of car ever made even Murrican ones :-). Thanks for the good advice about the timing belt. I made certain that the cambelt had been changed recently when choosing a GT 3.2 V6 so that isn't a great worry right now. What is though is that useless diff that Mr Alfa has thrown in there so sooner or later I'll need to get a Quaife unit or the Q2 type. Best would be to have the time to get Ian Algie of Algie Composites in Columbus OH to make me one. His genius is largely unrecognized although some know him because of the 200 mph Alfetta we built and raced to multi NZ championships. 1600 Oil Pump I have several used oil pumps from 105/115 cars and yes, the pickups do vary in length. You'll need to measure up the existing one to get a match. Regards All Les - leaving for Southwest US soon.... Date: Thu, 11 Jul 2013 18:13:40 +1100 From: David Masters <[email protected]> Subject: [alfa] Mitsubishi nuts and Alfa GT 3.2's Fellow Alfisti, It is good to see some people emerging from their lurking holes and passing on wisdom. Les from NZ may have the solution for Rich. I'm in Australia, yet I import Alfa parts from wrecks in England. It's cheaper than local supply, even with freight. One nut might be the exception, but there might be another part you need that could make it all worthwhile. Importing from NZ could be worthwhile, they have almost every brand of car ever made.. Secondly, Les, it is good to see you have a GT 3.2. I'm in the middle of a head refurb thanks to a snapped belt. The cost is frightening. My recommendation - don't spend all day at the track without constantly checking of the belt condition. Cheers, david - downunder in Oz. - ---------- Alfa GT 3.2 - almost back on the road. Alfa 75 (milano) 2L, Twin spark track car - written off, and waiting for a replacement Alfa 156 - 2L, Fiat Twin Spark, just resprayed. ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 11 Jul 2013 13:15:04 +0000 (UTC) From: [email protected] Subject: [alfa] more 1600 perplexities Gentle Alfisti, The new oil pump supplied by a famous racer/tuner outside of Atlanta is deeper than my original and interferes with the bottom of the sump. I knew that Alfetta pumps were special because of the deeper sump configuration, but are not all 105-115 pumps of similar dimension? Thanks Digest, modelle in somers point 105.04 g.d., 115.01 ------------------------------ -- to be removed from alfa, see http://www.digest.net/bin/digest-subs.cgi or email "unsubscribe alfa" to [email protected]
