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pancho · Post by **pancho** » Sun Feb 13, 2005 3:07 pm

And rightly so Greg, no business man in his right mind gives away the tricks of their products for free !

DaveH · Post by **DaveH** » Tue Mar 15, 2005 6:50 am

Greg, I saw this really interesting SC intake manifold recently...

Greg Gordon · Post by **Greg Gordon** » Tue Mar 15, 2005 7:00 am

That's fantastic. No intercooler but the finned alloy pipes probably help reduced intake air temps slightly. I wish my project could support that level of fabrication!

Greg Gordon www.oldebottles.com/italiancars.htm

DaveH · Post by **DaveH** » Tue Mar 15, 2005 7:31 am

It's belonging to an Alfa 8C 2900. There were several of them at Amelia Concours at the weekend. You should have seen the ones from the 40's that were GP racer chassis/motor, but with coachwork by the likes of Touring. Incredibly beautiful!

OK...I'd better stop; I'm in danger of thread hijacking.

GTV6GPTT · Post by **GTV6GPTT** » Thu Mar 17, 2005 12:31 am

thats 1 rare car...

ahah forget a intercooler it probally runs 4:1 compression

patzo_3l · Post by **patzo_3l** » Wed Mar 23, 2005 6:40 am

hi greg, long time no speak eh. just curious to hear your thoughts on a straight 6, 4 litre engine running on straight l.p.g gas and considering supercharging. dunno if u are familiar with this concept, however i am trying to gain as many different opinions on this possible project of an aquantaince of mine. wat he has already is a straight gas throttle body and many different people have suggested different theories in regards to running the supercharger b4 or after it. some say it shoul be set up simply like a draw through carby set-up, while some say otherwise. wat everybody agress upon though is the fact that a supercharger is not needed due to the use of straight l/p/g gas. basically i just want u to throw a few ideas my way here.

patzo_3l · Post by **patzo_3l** » Wed Mar 23, 2005 6:41 am

typo error there mate.. i meant an intercooler not needed. lol

Greg Gordon · Post by **Greg Gordon** » Wed Mar 23, 2005 7:11 am

Hi Patzo, I wish I could help with that but I have Zero experiece with LPG fueled cars.

As a general rule it's better to have the supercharger suck through the throttle body. Every OEM supercharger set up in production does it this way and every Magnuson kit (probably the best supercharger kits out there) does it this way. So I would suspect that's how to do it with LPG too.

Just like Turbos superchargers like intercoolers, and they really like liquid to air intercoolers so it's best if you can use one. I would imagine this is true with any fuel.

Good luck, this could be a tough one!
Greg Gordon

Barry · Post by **Barry** » Wed Mar 23, 2005 8:29 pm

Dave c,You are a very privilidged man to have been able to see so many great Alfa Romeo`s at the same time.....These cars are what made Alfa so great over the years..Sad ,by the looks of it, that the 8c 2900 is over restored in typical American fashion...

We have a great number of veteran and vintage Alfa`s in S.A.Some in original unrestored condition.The rarest would probably be the Zagato 1750 and the 8c 2900 Superleggeria coupe.Some wonderfull original 116gta 1300 and gta am 2000 as well..

Any one in Australia know if Ross Flewell-Smith still has his AlfA G3??

Barry

MD · Post by MD » Thu Mar 24, 2005 1:34 pm

Hi Baz,

Sorry to say Ross has passed away. Don't know what happened to his estate. If you really want to know, I could do some research for you.

kevin · Post by **kevin** » Fri Mar 25, 2005 10:21 am

Hi Dave
Those are great pics you posted. If you have more from that show can you put them up on a new thread as we rarely get to see such a collection of priceless Alfa Romeos in one gathering. Thanks. If they are up already on another thread let me know.

DaveH · Post by **DaveH** » Fri Mar 25, 2005 9:54 pm

Allright, help me find a site to post these on. There's no doubt the pics we took were incredible. Any fool with a point and shoot could have done a good job at Amelia. There was a stunning collection of cars on show. I don't ever think I'll see such a gathering again....

So....help me out here: where do I find a site that will let me post pix for free?

DaveH · Post by **DaveH** » Fri Mar 25, 2005 10:11 pm

Well, Greg, I've well and truly hijacked this post. I apologise for this.

As soon as someone can point me towards a photo posting site, I'll depart...

Promise.

TZ-2 (my fav Alfa) and Seinfeld's 1949 Porsche (oldest in existence) attached.

Mats · Post by **Mats** » Sat Mar 26, 2005 2:04 am

Well, you could have started a new thread...

Peter A · Post by **Peter A** » Sat Mar 26, 2005 5:39 am

Greg - so when are you going to make more kits? That's a great service you are doing for us.

My car is still in the body shop but making good progress (can't say so much for the Maratona donor). So I'll want to drive it for a while and maybe upgrade next winter? The supercharger kit is great since I have a very tight, low mileage 3.0 (S cams, headers, S pistons) that I'd like not to take apart...I guess the S pistons might be an issue so I'd have to run lower boost maybe with the water injection.

When you are ready...

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