ALFAGTV6.COM

Each form topic points to a new link. Many with rebuild/upgrade pictures.

http://6400.alloforum.com/liste_sujets- ... 0-0-1.html

A nice GTV6 site can be found at:

http://www.gtv6-156gta.be/LaGTV6presentGenerale.html

It has a lot of brochures, articles, and other memorabilia.

Password for all protected items seems to be gtv6

(lowercase letters)

Posted over on the AlfaBB there is a nice Excel spreadsheet that calculates speed-in-gear as a function of rpm for different transaxle diff ratios and different tire sizes:

http://www.alfabb.com/bb/forums/showpos ... stcount=17

Be sure to call us when you get home to tell us you made it!

Just wanted to give this thread a bump and ask how the rebuild is going. Any plans for the 2007 Targa Newfoundland?!?

I loved the breathless description of the 8C. It was like a love letter to a car. It is interesting that they felt a need at the end of the article to give a history of Alfa's use of 8 cylinder engines even going so far as to mention the stillborn GTV8.

Glad to see this thread has wandered from Hitler and Mr Bean back to Alfas where it should be!

I have posted the original hydraulic tensioner patent (#4,077,272) on the AlfaBB:

http://www.alfabb.com/bb/forums/showthread.php?t=28164

It has some nice drawings that may be of use to you.

For what its worth, I replaced my stock filter with a larger K&N oil filter and saw higher oil pressures on the gauge at all conditions, from cold start to hot idle. (I use Valvoline 20W50 synthetic.) My winter cold idle pressure is about 70 psi and my summer hot idle pressure is, well, not zero...

go to

www.alfabb.com

and type gear lightening into the search box. There are several threads on this issue...

Try these guys who are parting out 2 GTV6s. They seem to have a lot of miscellaneous stuff:

http://www.alfagtv6.com/bb/viewtopic.php?t=1572


I got a used one off of e-Bay last year for $10. They are around...

Checked out two 3 liter engines today: indeed they do have a different engine number (AR06124) than the 2.5 liter (AR01911).

Unfortuantely they skip numbers between years with seemingly no logic. I do not have a complete serial number list but I am always searching...

1984 starts at serial # 5501 (the last four digits of the VIN). You indeed may have a late '83 (or really one of the first "1984s").

As for the block, shouldn't you be able to tell from the serial number stamped on the block (just behind the left side head) what block size you have?

2.5L is AR01911 * Axxxxx *
3.0L is AR06124 * Axxxxx *