Alfasprinter

whats the make/model of tablet you use? looking for a good dash for my racecar. 

Awesome car looks like a bunch of fun!

yea i work at Armstrong nissan in the hutt, call parts and try to talk to simon he is oldschool parts guru/ has a moleste and a bambina!

definatly black bumpers mate, ive got a v14 linkplus if your interested? has flat shift, launch control and all that jazz

there was one nicked from outside my mates house in the hutt last week too, keeping mine locked up hundy at the moment.

that sud came into my old work 2+ years ago had been sitting by the sea for a while, lady who owned at had no idea, real shame not many left now =(

just finished working on a racecar one of these, nice as cars, deceptivly tiny! ill put up some pics if your keen? the owner also has the matt black slammed one but its now red/restored

yo, im putting an old linkplus onto my alfa which factory runs bosch motoronic (same as bmw etc)

i want to keep factory loom so need to make an adaptor board or similar, whos keen to build me one?

will hook up cash/beers/swap for mechanical work on your car

let me know!

$50 for the bellhousing grab it when u pick up oldnathans gearbox from me

Make sure the audi hasnt got blocked heater plenum drains, cronic for that and fills up the ecu boxes which are under the carpet with water and they shit their pants, also air bag suspension problems, make sure cambelts are done, big job whole front off. volvos are a bit better reliabity wise but still have abs computer/ general electric problems and are bad for oil leaks. nice cars when they are working though haha

Hi all

ive just wired up a linkplus v14 into my racecar with its new motor, trying to tie up the loose ends/wires.

it says it runs a low level tacho of the tacho output, i hav an autometer tacho in it now which i ran with the old engine with a single coil and dizzy, now it has subaru coilpack running wasted spark so i cant just run of coil negative.

how do people get around this or where can i buy a low level tacho?

Cheers

crank angle sensor

do it Markku, im keen

Gutted, hope it shows up. Same thing happened a few years ago with a sud ti, never showed up again

warm them up than thrash them hard, its what owning alfas is all about.

My racecar sprint went from 63kw to 96 kw and all i did was thrash it around hamptons for a day

lol i dailyed a 33 16v for the last 3 years went awesome NOTHING went wrong or broke, did 4 track days in it, crashed it into a hill and bent the lower arm, kept on trucking, seriously cost me like $100 over the whole time i owned it, sold it to buy a commodore for towing though.

Nothing like hooning round in a 33 tho.

Was your black 33 at hampton downs fior the alfa thing the other week? saw the car but couldnt track you down, was always racing wen you werent i guess

The rule is buy an Alfa, claim true petrolheadness, pass go to collect your €200 and live happily ever after

i work at an independant european workshop and see heaps of vag stuff and trans problems are kindoff common but only when the water to oil cooler on top of them splits and fills trans with coolant, seen this on a 90s corolla too so can happen to anything. havent seen a split sump on golfs yet but some has come close, see that way more on slamed e30s.

alfas seem the most reliable out of the euro stuff i see tho, just regular services and cambelts every 60k and the odd afm from air filters not being changed, lucky they dont have electric steer like the fiat versions yet

haha not biased at all ay

ill be competeing

KY and Lowlancer- when i was building it all the other ones were red so i thought id do something a bit different.

and when i was 4 my dad had one the same in yellow and it was the coolest thing around when you 4.

Testament- next post is gonna be suspension and brakes, they are pretty trick. just gotta get some pics of it.

TDS- yup all the same car, dodgy drag queen outfit was a piss take of a very dodgy may madness a while ago haha. it got removed after a couple of seasons because it was deemed too offensive by one of the race organisers haha

a guy i know whos putting a 3.0 alfa v6 in the back of a alfasud like mine, all he did was remove the cage and balls form the original fwd cvs and machined most of the meat off the sides of the cv thats not needed anymore.

You need this part because it holds the wheel bearing together and stops the hub flying off when the wheel bearing collapses, ive seen this happen haha

so when the car was back from being caged i sent it away to a family friend to paint, along with my acid dipped gaurds, bonnet and doors. when i got it back my eyes hurt for a while, its a very bright yellow!

i got it back and pretty quickly it went back together, made lexan windows all round except the windscreen, new door panelling, modified the steel dash by cutting the bottom half of it off, and rewired the whole car. at this point all it needed was running gear.

So i dismantled the supposedly "rebuilt" engine to check it over and found it was pretty well fucked and needed new rings, a hone, new big ends, gudgeon bushes,main bearings and thrust washers. all 8 exhaust valve guides were well over their limit too so these were replaced.

i got the engine back and re assembeld it myself to the point where i had to fit the oil pump, which also drives the dizzy. The original gears in it were so worn that they had to be replaced, problem was no new parts are available for these oil pumps and new pumps are also no longer available. so i spent around 5 months searching all over the world to find a new pump, nobody had one at any price. so i ended up pulling a second hand pump out of very late 8v 1.7 ie 33 which has the same high flow oil pump as the 16vs. and getting that as good as i could get it with out making new gears. it still wasnt the best but i wanted the car to go.

as luck would have it a brand new pump that had only done 10 laps of taupo came up for sale at a rediculusly cheap price, so thats sitting on the shelf waiting to be fitted. The motor was then fully assembeld and fitted to the car

And started after i replaced the seized fuel pump. Gearbox is the oringinal Sprint veloce close ratio box with 3.9 FD which was rebuilt not long before i bought the car.

while the car was away being caged (told the guy i wasnt in a hurry) i got offered this through the AROCNZ and who was i to refuse 1200 for a car that was selling for 3-4k at the time, problem was rust

so i fixed the rust and got a wof and reg and drove it for 3 months then this happened..

Which made the descision pretty easy, instead of the hot 125hp 1500cc motor i planned to put in it, id take the engine, loom, factory quad throttles etc out of the 33 and fit it to the sprint and have a cheap and easy 140hp, so i did

^ i should have got a pic of the car in its DRGRCR livery haha

everybody knows Olly

Yip ill be at Hampton downs for the centenery all going well, im doing serious upgrades on it at the moment. Need to do a clutch in my daily 16v 33 so my dad can take that up aswell, and build a new exhaust for my mums s1qv racecar so she can take that.....

Yes my family is well and truly bitten by the bug

found some more pics from before it was caged

and then it came back. full cage through to front strut towers, door bars, extra bracing etc

so it was a bit tatty when i got it as you can see, so i started fixing the minor rust which i soon found was major rust, 15mm thick bog covering newspaper filled sills. these rust out big time because the rear window drains block, and overflow into the sill cavitys. so me and my old man cut out all the rust and plated it all up.

then we stripped the rest of the car to see what other rust we could find, and we found plenty more, rear of the roof, rear quaters behind wheels, around windscreen... the list goes on, so that all got fixed and we flipped it onto its side.

we stripped the underseal for lightness and suprisingly the floors were mint so we painted it up and sent it away to get caged