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[David in Brisbane: That is a nice project!! Nice job on the runners. I see a lack of an AFM. What speed/density system are you using? -Peter Duh, never mind. That's the MS install I helped you with. I hadn't seen any underhood pictures. We tuned Davids car on a Sunday afternoon via the internet fr...

Peter! Why do I need the tools to reassembly the wheel? Isn´t it just to put it back and tighten the center nut? Maybe I´ve missed something here. Seb When you go to install the heads and belt back on the block, you'll need the cam turning tool to line everything up and the locking tool while you a...

I only use synthetic in mine too. Nothing but the best for my baby. Amsoil 20/50. It's expensive but worth it. Alfas have a lot in common with women. If you don't give her just the right thing, you'll end up walking home :) Oh, and no goo either. No engine restorer or stop-leak or any of that crap. ...

OK, thanks guys! Murray, did you pull on the hub or on tha wheel? My puller doesn´t grip to well on the hub. If I crank it too hard it slips. In that sence maybe it´s better to pull on the wheel itself. (?) Seb I didn't read the whole thread but did you guys know there's a factory Alfa tool for thi...

One problem with a "comversion spacer" is that it needs to be quite thick to work, something like 25mm. Unless you find a rim with ET in the fiftys you will have problems. Why do you say that? The spacers I use are 22mm thick with a 35ET (38mm) wheel. They can be be 15mm to 25mm. The trac...

I don't really have an interest in the parts business. Liability alone on a part like this makes me run away. Charlie DiMarco is your neighbour there in SoCal. You can strike a deal up with him and/or his machinist to distribute the spacers. He can make different thicknesses for whichever offset whe...

ar4me wrote:

I feel more comfortable with things being lugcentric as well as hubcentric. With the weird 58.5mm centerbore

Uh, you mean 58.6mm? - perhaps that's why you have slop

Jes

Then it would be tighter.

I had mine made by Serpent Autosport. http://www.serpentautosport.com/accessories.htm I forget how much he charged me. I think it was $225 or so. I'd have to measure again for all the specs. I sent him the hub diameter, hub centerbore, wheel centerbore (that depends on the wheel you use), the 5x98 c...

Here's an article from Fred DiMatteo some years ago, sent to the Alfa Digest. A few tricks to rebuilding the hydraulic tensioner. FWIW, I didn't go through all this but I did rebuild the hydraulic with the head work last month. I won't put one of those thermo-mechanical valve benders in my car... HT...

Wouldn't it just be better to buy blanks and have them drilled? Seems like an helluva lot of trouble to deal with spacers and floating nuts...and whatnot. How many places still offer blanks? Sometimes the tire rack will do that for you, if you're real nice :D Rob Blanks are hard to get. Depends on ...

Scary? Are you afraid to use washers under the nuts on the headstuds too? :wink: Perfectly safe I'd say. But the nuts are expensive as hell and I have yet to find an anti-theft version of it. I feel more comfortable with things being lugcentric as well as hubcentric. With the weird 58.5mm centerbor...

If you're going to use 4/100 on a 4/98 hub you need a nut with a floating washer. Basically it's like a regular nut but the conical part is loose and can move around a bit to adjust to the slightly off centre stud. FYI, OZ doesn't make 4/98 and 5/98 rims any more, thay list them but they are 4/100 ...

Is that forum still active haven't been there for years. I have only checked in a couple of times, they still go on and on aout the same stuff, mostly daily-driver stuff that is sooo boring. :roll: Well, back on topic, sry guys. You'd like the Yahoo Alfa Racing group. All race cars, all the time. h...

LENZ wrote:Is that forum still active haven't been there for years.

It's there. Activity is up and down.

http://autos.groups.yahoo.com/group/alfa75/

-Peter

Where can you get Team Dynamics wheels with the 4x98 bolt pattern? When I looked at the Ferrari of Seattle site, they no longer carry the wheel I want. Thanks, Bill in MD Bill, Andy at Performatek carries them in 15x7. He can get about any size you want though. What are you looking for? I'm probabl...