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nicke · Post by **nicke** » Wed Nov 16, 2005 8:17 pm

We're building a car for Targa Newfoundland... 7 days 2200 kilometers, 30% on closed off, all-out roads. Asphalt ralley. The poor unsuspecting car is a GTV6 '86 with a Zender kit sans rear spoiler. We're thinking of one of those Ballocco spoilers with the alu. mountings, severly rolled fenders to fill out the wheel whells etc. We're still in the planning stages and the race is in September next year. We're thinking RSR suspension bigger brakes and all the goodies....

nicke · Post by **nicke** » Wed Nov 16, 2005 8:23 pm

Yes it's a 3.45 Litre Glennwood engine... It should be rather rude when installed, below are some build pics, and pics from the crate.

Barry · Post by **Barry** » Fri Nov 18, 2005 5:34 am

Nicke,This car is too nice to go racing with...You guys need a race car shell to go racing with-that said,I suppose all race cars start off being nice road cars...
You are going to enjoy that motor....

nicke · Post by **nicke** » Fri Nov 18, 2005 5:53 pm

The Blue car looks nice but it's not that nice... Both Pete and used to shoot stills professionally, Pete more than me...and he shot that picture. There's no retouching on the picture just selective color levels and such...

The oddest thing is that it's a "sister car" to my my red '84 GTV6, the same pair of brothers in New Jersey that used to own them booth... My red one was a project car they never started and the blue one was mostly restored by the younger brother for his older brothers 30th birthday. At the time I thought it was flashy, and a somewhat sloppy restoration, with a CHEESY really small wooden steering wheel and and a hand painted flashy Alfa logo on the black cover plate on the hood...

The restoration was flashy!! 24Hours into the car we blew the engine...in regular street driving, but we had another good 2.5 so it was not a big deal! The #5 cylinder had no compression after an oil change, to what we always put in our cars Amsoil synthetic race oil...

The car has all the improvements in the look area but none in handling and power. The paint is pretty nice but there's bad spider cracks in the fibre-glass/steel inersections and the interior is basically shot... But the 10" steering wheel center was painted the same colour as the car and there's rips in the interior... But it's basiaclly sound. And it had this lovley plaque on the dash about the 30th bithday of Richard...

My red '84 when I bought it had rust through in the lower sills, the standard cancer in the shock towers, really WOBBLY mis-matched wheels from a Neon 5x100 and a really tuner loud coffe-can sized Borla end pipe... But I had some personal reasons I really wanted a '84 GTV6, in red... And now they're together once again...

The blue car at this moment is all show and no go... But it has a SWEET exhaust note!!!

The red '84 was an interesting find, and of course I did not disclose any of this as I bought it, but it had the thicker sway bars, an LSD rear end (non stock on that particular car) the front sway bar re-inforcements, drilled and vented discs and all kinds of expensive options that played out well after it was sorted... Some previous owner knew what he was doing and spent a lot of dosh...

Cheers, Nick

P.S. 4 years after the "restoration" we have to dlo some rust fixin in the shock towers and fix some windshiled rust, while we seam weld the engine copmartment as the engine is out...

nicke · Post by **nicke** » Fri Nov 18, 2005 5:58 pm

The PS. relates to the "flashy" blue car....

twinspark6 · Post by **twinspark6** » Fri Nov 18, 2005 8:02 pm

Man. I got to get on the glenwood motors boat. I've been spending too much money on my other vehicle. Engine looks sweet. What engine management are you going to use?

nicke · Post by **nicke** » Fri Nov 18, 2005 8:08 pm

GoTech... The motor is base mapped and not to shabby at 6000ft... All we got to do is get it down to NYC sea level...

Cheers, N

Mats · Post by **Mats** » Sat Nov 19, 2005 4:29 am

I still don't understand why you have to "bring it down to sea level", the car has a MAP sensor doesn't it?

nicke · Post by **nicke** » Sat Nov 19, 2005 12:27 pm

Yes, my bad... I wrongly assumed that the lack of an Altitude compensator would require a slight re tuning, but the MAP sensor takes care of all of that.

junglejustice · Post by **junglejustice** » Sat Nov 19, 2005 7:30 pm

Nick, Pete, congrats on the motor - it's been fun working with you guys on it - glad that it got there OK...!

Even with the MAP sensor, you still require some remapping to compensate for local fuel... As far as the altitude; the GoTech includes an inherent "Altitude Correction Factor" setting that takes care of it.

Domingos and Dawie's settings on our 3.7s was a bit too aggressive. Joe Katic from GoTech was just here to help out with the Dyno session and to talk GoTech future... He did not have to make too much adjustment to the maps - just air/fuel ratio...

We did not even touch the timing maps when we made 300 plus at the wheels!!!

Mats · Post by **Mats** » Sun Nov 20, 2005 1:48 am

junglejustice wrote:
We did not even touch the timing maps when we made 300 plus at the wheels!!!

Which is really weird since you had to adjust the maps for local fuel..?

Nicks and Petes racecar project