Unfortunately was pursuaded to sell my liteweight Lancia Rally MonteCarlo. The new owner is fitting a nice 3.2 ALFA V6 Twin-Turbo, ( We are lucky here in Joburg to have one of the best Alfa 'Capo'engine builders. The fastest Track car in my group here runs a Alfa V6 T.-Turbo/Noble designed ULTIMA.-I hope to better his time this year in my nearly completed Grp.4 Pantera replica.....) So I have started fitting the Quad-cam., ally. Ferrari V8 plus Transaxel clip out of the Lancia into the Fiat 600.- Its all in a nice compact subframe mounted with 4x rubber mounts, ala Lancia Stratos / Beta / Montecarlo, with the suspention & brakes of the 308 all hanging off it. Bolting it in the Fiat 600 amidships was dead eaasy.- (The great thing about this set-up is the ease with which one can quickly pop-in different gears into the back of the beautifull ally. cast gearbox covers. - I have a 'road' set and a 'track' set of gears which go in smartely (10mins,) when I want to gear the whole works down for say ; Zwartkops or Kyalami Race trk.)
Now i need to fit the frt.susp.& brakes along with the steering and gearshift.
Bodies been fettled ; 2.5inch top-chop with 6inch body extention just behind the door,- window apertures fitted with Lexan.
Will fit my old Campy's off my Pantera with low profiles and paint the sucker Ferrari Red. Or mabe Yellow. Leaving the motor comparment open for all to see : Painted Ally Camcovers, 4x DCNF Webers and a trick bunch o snakes sticking out the back. Rear deck-lid raised..........
Should be a Howler. Theses V8's sound very different.........The Lancia was around 2000lbs with this motor, so with a target weight here of +- 1300lbs, it should fairly bustle along.
I'll post pics, as I finish... Cheers tai.
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