The Alfa Thread

[MR E30 325is]

Nice looking spider. Is it still running the SPICA system or did someone convert it to carbs? Great color. Anything but red on an Alfa is always a treat.

Thanks. It is not. It was swapped to Weber carbs by someone.

Found out why it may be much slower than it should be with its "125 hp" 2L. An aftermarket electronic fuel pump was added, and one of the feed lines is severely kinked, probably starving the engine of fuel in high revs.

[Italian_Tuneup]

Nice looking spider. Is it still running the SPICA system or did someone convert it to carbs? Great color. Anything but red on an Alfa is always a treat.

[MR E30 325is]

Was temporarily gifted this 1974 Alfa Romeo S2 Iniezione for the summer by a good friend. I'll be doing a bit of work to it to bring it closer to his desired level of completeness, while enjoying it during the process!

Took it on a ~70 mile drive yesterday down the switchbacks to Sedona on the 89A. Splendid little machine with the top down, especially on a partly cloudy day.

While it is remarkably slow, it is very reliable and drivable, despite being 46 years old. Most definitely a head turner as well.

Alfa Romeo - 5-12-20 by Michael Rickerd, on Flickr

Alfa Romeo - 5-12-20 by Michael Rickerd, on Flickr

I have been reading alfabb.com to learn as much about the car as possible before I start getting into it. First order of business is the fuel vapor system check/cleaning in an attempt to remove the frequent smell of gasoline while driving.

[LateFan]

'57 Sprint

[LateFan]

Giulia 1300 makes good noises.....

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iTH5qZi-w_8&feature=emb_logo

[2mAn]

LateFan Glad to see progress!

[LateFan]

Carlo Durante of Tacoma Washington has died.

Brothers Carlo & Lino owned Alfa of Tacoma, which was also a Ferrari service shop. They were characters and totally interesting guys. I only visited a couple of times when I was in Tacoma. I had friends who had their cars serviced there for years. There was a sort of mythical aura surrounding that shop. If you could manage to get a tour of the basement garages, it was a real treat of vintage Ferraris and V12s being rebuilt, and old Alfas - wish I had seen it.

From what I understand, they ran a Ferrari-Alfa service shop down near Lake Washington in Seattle, then the dealership was given to someone else and located up on Capitol Hill. Pete Lovely, the famous racer in Tacoma, helped them set up as the Alfa dealer in Tacoma.

https://www.facebook.com/groups/6735...9641991708989/

https://www.alfabb.com/threads/carlo-durante.694111/

PROVA Motorsports Godspeed Carlo. I admired you, and aspired to be you. My greatest condolences to those closest to him. You touched a lot of lives Carlo.

Steve Schaeffer And so ends an era that will never be again. The entire PacNW owes so much to Carlo and Lino. They were among the first Alfisti I met upon buying my '67 GTV in 1989. Carlo, your story was one for the ages.

Matthew Martin Lino and Carlo were central to my love affair with Alfa Romeo...Carlo brought Italia to my various Alfas - including my first - a 79’ Alfetta GT - tuned it better than ever with those Euro cams. I hung out at Alfa of Tacoma for an hour or more every time I went even if I was just buying one caliper rebuild kit. When I bought Ralli-Round, I relied upon Carlo - it was never competition- we were like family in our love of these mechanical art pieces...I miss you Carlo...I always loved hearing an engine in full song roaring away as you dialed it in...

Gary Reed Carlo was a dear friend and neighbor for 23 years. He loved working on cars from the time he was 13 years old in Italy, until just a few weeks ago. Rest in Peace, Carlo. We love you.

[LateFan]

Tipo 33 chassis


"roll bar"




One-piece magnesium casting

[LateFan]

Actual reassembly work has begun in my now bright garage. Fun to be out there working on something besides dailies. It's like reconstructing a crime scene, figuring out all the boxes of parts, figuring out what's cleaned and painted so far, which are the missing bushings, and wondering what those E30 parts are doing under there. I'm wire brushing, degreasing, priming, and painting parts and the cross member. Just chassis black, no powder coating for this car. I have new rebuilt calipers, but decided the new old stock (20 YEARS old) brake hoses should be replaced.

I'm excited.


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One done, one not.


Adjustable upper arms.


Later model 70's 2-liter uprights hold bigger Ate calipers. I had a Speedi-Sleeve pressed on over a good groove in the oil seal surface.



RF lower wishbone assembled and torqued! Lower spring pan sits in the center with the four bolt holes. Long stud is the lower shock mount.

[LateFan]

We expected something like that from you........


Alfa Indy -

[flyboyx]

she's a GILF!

[LateFan]

Miss Italia 1955. She's your grandmother!

[LateFan]

Alfa Romeo 2600 Spider, body by Touring. Sort of the poor little brother to the Maserati 3500 Spider. I know of a guy in my town with one of these, restored, for sale. He bought it new in 1965 in Italy, had it ever since. This pic is from a movie set in the 60s.

[LateFan]

I opened up the engine (I was told it was healthy and good to go with high compression pistons, headwork, big valves, and big cams.)

Bummer. That's like a "Ran When Parked" CL scam.



A pic!

[2mAn]

Pics of what? Nothing to show. I will take pics when I put it back together, but teardown, eh, I don't want to get the camera dirty.

Will

haha ahhh come on!!