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[Mats]

I'll have a look next time I see it, about redline that is. There is a boost gauge as standard (you can actually see it under the oil pressure gauge, rated to 2,5 Bar)
My 75 T instuments are white and pointy/square, not the rounded contour as these ones. Speedo goes to 240 Km/h as I remeber it, a bit silly as the redline in fifth would be around 205 Km/h or so. We had all types of instuments on the 75's here in Sweden, early 75 TS cars were orange but late (89 on) had white, different instuments, stalks, heater panel and ARC.
Did you know there is also different air vents? Blue symbols and white... My 75 T has blue ones.

Thanks for the compliment.
I actually considered the spoiler lip the first week I owned the car but now I would never change it. I think the flat trim looks much better but it needs some looking at before you realize it.
I have three sets of spoiler lips in my garage, could maybe come in handy..? Weighs a ton though.

[Mats]

The redline looked like what you said but the tacho only want to 7000, mine goes to 8000...

This is my cluster:

[Mats]

Trackday this Saturday, rain was pouring down the whole day so the race was postponed.
Qualified fourth for the race so it was kind of a turnoff, I'll be back to claim my position in August though.
I seem to be fast in the rain, nice to have an edge, too bad they seem to want us not to race when it's wet though. Oh well, life is a bitch.

[ingegnere]

That photo looks extremely cool!

We were on the Selenia Rally this weekend. It' organized by our club. But not a hard driving one with drifting all the time , but the classic time trial. We had beautiful sunshine.

[Mats]

Why you gotta love Sweden...

Snapped this photo tonight, a friend of mine is wakeskating. This pic was taken at 9 PM...



Took it sitting in the tower of this puppy.

[Zamani]

Sweden is beautiful!

[MD]

Only if you havn't been to Greece and walked through the olive groves.

[Jim K]

Maybe, if you're a farmer!
I'll take the beach on Sunday, anytime (droool!!)
Jim K.

[MD]

Call that a beach ?

Mate, our beach is long enough to wrap Europe twice around and up your fooshoo for a stopper!

Now that's beach !

But I agree with you. What we need is to go commercial and set up an Alfa Ice Cream Kiosk on the beach and you know, check out the customers, er, I mean spread the Alfa word.

[zambon]

I think that Ski Nautique is the Alfa Romeo of waterski boats.

[Mats]

I was test fitting some new valves today when I realized the combustion chambers really needed some attention (ok, I realized this when I took the head off but hadn't bothered to clean them). Scrubbed it down with some degreaser and scotch-brite, came out quite nice I think.


Before


Halfway done



Finished

[Jim K]

Nice looking all right, but I see no signs of chamber volume matching! How does 2cc (or more) difference between those sparkling chambers strike you?
C'mon, get to work! You'll need a Dremel type tool and re-re-re-repeated measurements before you have 4 equal chambers! Plan on spending a whole afternoon at it. Use two old valves with grease for sealing (no springs needed) and of course an old spark plug, with the correct heat range for the job, hahah!
Jim K.

[Mats]

Well, I still need to recut the seats so not before that...

Notice the 4mm wide seats on the valves. haha!
Looks like a 3mm seat on the exhaust seats, damn thats a wide seat.

[MD]

Don't know quite how we got from introducing yourself to cleaning heads but hey, I'm here.

Thing I noticed Mats is that each chamber is different with a different internal shape. Is that just spaghetti casting or its meant to be that way?

[Mats]

Well, the valves are not exactly centered in the chambers (my guess it that it comes from using the same camshafts as the earlier smaller engines) and they have de-shrouded the valves to get better flow, that created those ridges you see in the pics.
I think I will smoothen those out as I balance the chambers, spider-sense is saying they can be hot-spots and promote pinking but I might be wrong.

I introduced myself in the first post, now I'm kinda using it as a Blog to post all kind of stuff that I think can interest you guys.