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rhodes1 · Post by **rhodes1** » Mon Jul 17, 2006 4:53 am

Bad timing, I am afraid. I am in NYC for the next three weeks now and the Alfa is at Prestige Interiors in Burbank getting the new headliner and door panels this week. However, it is meant to be back at Wize Guyz Kustoms come Thursday and I will ask them to please snap a few images of the wing in place.

Essentially we copied the demensions of the Callaway wing, and then added two inches in height to that. It's rather nice. Sorry I cannot post anything quicker.

Best Wishes

Richard

rhodes1 · Post by **rhodes1** » Fri Nov 10, 2006 1:50 pm

Hi all. Whilst the Callaway motor is being rebuilt by Historic Race Engineering, the interior got the front and rear seats recovered. There was nothing wrong with the orignals, however with the new interior the cockpit looked unfinished so went ahead and pulled the front and back seats and recovered them with identical tan leather with burgundy pips. Not to everyone's taste, but I am rather keen on it.

http://web.mac.com/rhodes1/iWeb/Site%202/GTV6.html

cchan · Post by **cchan** » Fri Nov 10, 2006 2:24 pm

Hi Rhodes1,

You Alfa looks awesome. I really like the interior that looks new. Did you have seat covers or did your leather person restore this from scratch? I am deciding on my interior stragedy right now.

Thanks for your input.

Alfettish · Post by **Alfettish** » Fri Nov 10, 2006 2:52 pm

Is that a 105 steering wheel?
Is it smaller than the GTV's?

rhodes1 · Post by **rhodes1** » Fri Nov 10, 2006 4:44 pm

Thanks guys. The seats are not pull over replacement leathers. I simply had Prestige Interiors use the old seat leather as a template to make the new ones and then pipe the trim using left over suede from what was used on the dash and headliner.

I am not certain of the replacement steering wheel size. It looked the same size as the original, but admittedly the Nardi is a bit more dainty than the original GTV6 wheel.

RW

rhodes1 · Post by **rhodes1** » Thu Feb 08, 2007 9:21 pm

Hi.

Finally after a long wait my '86 headed down to Historic Race Engineering in Orange County, CA to have Greg Armstrong install the Twin-Turbo Callaway motor and the Milano-Verde transaxel with lightened gears. Greg is rebuilding the Callaway motor in total including forged pistons and gold clading all the nuts and bolts.

Including the more recent images. Have had the windows tinted dark brown. I like the rims on the car, but was able to get a nice set of 17 inch HRE chromes which will fit the Porsche 995 Brembo's a bit better.

I also include an image of the Alfa at rest in my garage and my Christmas present to myself, the 2007 Astin Martin V8 Vantage (I couldn't wait any longer to have something to drive fast).

Historic Race Enginering did Martin de'Campo's Callaway a few years back. Gregg there will do some similiar work, but some new technology has come along to sweaten the job and I have also now agreed to add power steering.

The other new images are at this link:

http://web.mac.com/rhodes1/iWeb/Site%202/GTV6.html

Cheers, from the beach!

R.

rz · Post by rz » Fri Feb 09, 2007 2:18 am

wowwww,that is a very nice interior!!

GregoryV · Post by **GregoryV** » Mon Feb 12, 2007 9:06 pm

Just came across your intro. That blue is awesome! Like the piping on the seats, gives me thoughts for when I do mine (hopefully this summer) - though the interior color scheme seems to clash with the car color for my taste - but well done!

You'd seriously want to rally the car after putting that nice of paint on and that interior in?!

GV

GregoryV · Post by **GregoryV** » Mon Feb 12, 2007 9:08 pm

Am I missing something - what benefit is gold cladding???

x-rad · Post by **x-rad** » Tue Feb 13, 2007 6:32 pm

Are those Serpent Autosport wheels? 17's?

rhodes1 · Post by **rhodes1** » Sun Feb 18, 2007 9:23 am

Yes those are. And they are for sale too. They have zero miles on them, and include the brand new tyres also with zero miles on them. $1000 for the entire package, cost me $1,664 USD last July and since then the car has not moved.

I am putting my original choice of rims on the car..HRE's just originally did not want to spend $6k on wheels. But with the total restoration I decided what the heck.

Anyone interested do please give me a shout.

RW

Alfettish · Post by **Alfettish** » Sun Feb 18, 2007 12:54 pm

size?

rhodes1 · Post by **rhodes1** » Sun Feb 18, 2007 2:29 pm

...rims. They do not rub anywhere. I copied what Charlie DeMarco of Serpent has long had on his GTV6 and he never had an issue with wheel rub from the tyre size either.

Hope that helps.

RW

rhodes1 · Post by **rhodes1** » Tue Mar 27, 2007 4:09 pm

A small update. Now less than two months from completion of the Callaway. Gregg Armstrong showed me how things are coming along and I also brought in a few new parts. I finally found a replacement NOOS hood pull trigger. Mine still worked however the attachment for the fuse box was broken. Apparently these are getting difficult to find as not only are there none I could locate on junked cars, but also this one went for $255 on Ebay…sheesh! The new HRE rims and tyres were delivered today and do they look the part. Very clean 17 inch, three piece polished beasts.

We also broke down all the costs and exactly what will be done by Gregg to complete the Callaway project. I did also inquire as to why he gold cladded pretty much everything, and his explanation is that they will outlive me before they go rotten. Sounds fine, but I don’t care for the colour much.

The entire Callaway motor was stripped and rebuilt. The following work was/is being done to improve upon the V6 motor:

J E pistons,rings lite pins added. Machined the block, lighten shot-peen rods
Ceramic coated JE Pistons/moly bonded
Gaskets, main and rod bearings, thrust washers
Set rod bolts
Rebuilt engine, blueprint complete, 0 ring liners
Install engine,wire tech1 map for engine
Turbo Oil lines-stainless steel braid
Crank-machined lightened for better hydrodynamics
Rods, lightened & machined.
Port,polish, machine 3 angle valve job, surface heads
Cams-mild w/no overlap (Custom “S” grind) 5° lift
ARP Head/Block Tempered Studs
Head Gasket-high end non-metallic
Magnecor 8.5 wires (if needed) red
Porsche bypass Blowoff/ valves, 2
New stainless valves NEW larger

IHI Turbo Water jackets – connected to water pump
Oil cooler (recirc) H2O-oil, remote oil filter
Stainless steel Radiator – installed and modified
Spal Radiator Fans
Low temp thermostat
Tropical Aire A/C compressor – rebuilt.
Transaxle cooler
New A/C condensor.

Custom fuel injectors, 340hp @ 85% (R&C Injectors)
Fuel Pressure Regulator – high end
K & N high flow pie air filter/intake system
Stainless braided hoses - replace where necessary
HiPo ABD fuel filter

“Platinum” Transaxle- rebuilt, lightened gears, installed
“Platinum” Isostatic Shifter- rebuilt & installed
Machine Flywheel -%25 lighter installed
Twin Disc Kevlar clutch
Transaxle bead blasted and painted alloy finish
Transaxle cooler

3 Inch alloy- Stainless Exhaust System throughout
3 Inch Aluminized steel Exhaust System
Headers – Equal length 316 stainless steel custom fab

Steel Braided Brake lines
OMP Carbon Brake pads front/back
Brake Booster painted red, BMW 735I retrofitted and installed
Powder coat calipers front red), rear rotors cadmium gold plated
Installed Milano Power steering system

AVO British Adjustable Shocks (4)
Zagato suspension bushing upgrades
Spherical Drop Links (front) swaybar additions
Zagato Castor Arm conversion (2)
OMP Progressive Rate Springs (2) rear
A-Arm bushings new
Poly bushings for Swaybar (red)
Spherical/Adjustable Bearings Watt Links (rear)
Torsion bars/ Shankle medium high performance
Sway bars Shankle, high performance
de Dion rear bars refinished, painted
Shankle camber adjusters/ alloy
New custom swaybar links in back/ new front

Three guage Callaway cluster using Alfa dials from 1989 Spyder mounted between dash and glovebox.

If any of the above seems pointless or silly please let me know as I still have time to instruct Gregg to make changes. I am not at all ashamed to admit that to a certain extent we are using what he did to restore Martin de Campo's excellent Callaway as a blueprint, plus/minus a few items for personal taste.

More pics here: http://web.mac.com/rhodes1/iWeb/Site%202/GTV6.html

Best wishes,

Richard