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Barry · Post by **Barry** » Tue Sep 05, 2006 8:57 am

Someone asked a while ago if I had more pics of my old Gtv..Well,boiught a scanner and started checking my old 35mm negs..Found a few,but putting these 2 up..

lucass81 · Post by **lucass81** » Tue Sep 05, 2006 7:57 pm

Wow, please more pictures of that car. What tire size were you using?
What motor was in it? How much horsepower? And that picture looks 80s, when did you tune that car? That GTV looks hot now, but in the 80s, fucking amazing.

Barry · Post by **Barry** » Tue Sep 05, 2006 8:41 pm

Yup,that was late 80`s..
I ran 16" wheels-8j front and 9.5j rear..
Tires were 225-50-16 front and 245 -40-16 rear.
20l turbo-200 wheel hp,carbs and mech. dizzy,no intercooler(whats that??)
A chap once commented after I blew his Oettinger Jetta into the weeds that the aircon realy got hot on my car..the turbo was red hot as was the manifold..It was fun.
iIll scan more pics..

Btw,this car had a FULL Autodelta race suspension in it..ally lower control arms,drop links,adjustable torsions,big mutha torsions,etc,etc..

rz · Post by rz » Tue Sep 05, 2006 11:44 pm

how i love south africa so much!!were is the picture taken?
i always dream about stop working in this f***ing country and just having fun in SA,enjoying the good weather and the good food.
and playing around with alfa's..........................
DREAM ON

MD · Post by MD » Wed Sep 06, 2006 3:45 am

Bazza. Don't tell rz the real deal. He's better off dreamin'..

Mericet · Post by **Mericet** » Wed Sep 06, 2006 5:23 am

MD wrote:Bazza. Don't tell rz the real deal. He's better off dreamin'..

Sadly so true.

lucass81 · Post by **lucass81** » Thu Sep 07, 2006 1:05 pm

In late 80s with 200whp you may have a couple of stories about molesting v8 Ferraris, 911 carreras, M3s, Delta integrales, Mustangs, etc.
Some interesting stories there?

Barry · Post by **Barry** » Thu Sep 07, 2006 7:33 pm

Well,At the time the E36 M3 was the bullet to have..after pulling the guy 10 car lenghts Id wait for him to catch up..and promtly pull him another 10 car lenghts..
You must remember that the top end of this car was not anything spectacular.A Nissan 20l could give me a carrot on top end..but he had to catch me first..

328 Ferrari and Carrera was no match,I did take them on..hell,I was young and stupid,I took EVERYTHING on in those days...

A memoral run was with a BMW E34 M5 at the coast..(where these pics were taken..)Theres a serious steep mountain road just before ...mmmmm..aaaah...errrrrmm...anyhow ,It was a good run,not the usual walk in the park for me...

This car was a lot of fun while it lasted...

Post by **Zamani** » Thu Sep 07, 2006 8:38 pm

Baz,

How fast is the F328? Would love to take one on. It has 270 Italian bhp?

PietereQ · Post by **PietereQ** » Sat Sep 09, 2006 10:25 am

Well this very JDM color looks quite intriguing on gtv6. Shouldn't overheat too much in SA climate

Is that the GP bodykit?

joey · Post by **joey** » Sun Sep 10, 2006 3:39 am

baz. nice.

pietereQ, looks like a zender kit to me.

patzo_3l · Post by **patzo_3l** » Sun Sep 10, 2006 5:44 am

bazza, seems to me you wouldve been " THE MAN" back in the eighties eh. well done and a f*@kn nice looking thing when it was in one piece. seems to me at some stage or other weve all added an alfetta to the scrap pile, of course after recylcling the good bits ie: turbo, nos kit, 1000hp rated transaxle, etc etc.
lol only in my dreams

lucass81 · Post by **lucass81** » Thu Sep 14, 2006 5:41 pm

Barry, in late 80s you mean the E30 M3 that had 200hp, not the 286hp E36 M3?
Last weekend I was on the highway in my 1996 E36 M3 3.2 and a black 308 GTS QV tried to pull away from me. Two persons per car. I didnt need to use full throtle to keep up and I shifted at 6.000 rpms. We accelerated from 60km/h to 180km/h. I easily keep up with him enjoing that V8 scream. The E36 M3 is really fast. I want my GTV6 to be as fast as the bimmer but is to expensive to build a 300hp GTV6.

Fernando · Post by **Fernando** » Fri Sep 15, 2006 12:06 am

I have some good memories of both the 3.0 litre and 3.2 litre M3 my cousin owned.I only had a modded 2.0 litre GTV at the time so there was no way we were going to indulge in robot to robot races...

His last 3.2 litre would hit an indicated 275km/h and still no governor to kick in and stop the fun.

It's handling was incredible on the country roads we took it on.That car could cover ground at a serious rate of knots.

In my own 3.5 I had a nice 'race' at a track day last year against a 3.2 M3.This chap ran Goodyear Eagle F1's on the front and Bridgestone semi slicks on the rear.First time out I overtook him on the back straight at Zwartkops and I must admit it felt good.

Second time round we left the braking late and he snuck on the inside of me coming off the main straight.This corner is taken at about 120 km/h and then you accelerate uphill to about 160 km/h in my car before the braking zone for a tight 90 right hand bend.I was right in his slip leading into the braking zone and left mine as late as I thought was reasonable only to watch him run right off into the kitty litter,brake lights ablaze...

Serious respect is due the BMW M3 range I reckon,just wish Alfa would build there own versions now.Lucas good luck with your GTV6.

Greg Gordon · Post by **Greg Gordon** » Fri Sep 15, 2006 4:08 am

Barry,
Were you able to fix that white car? It's really a cool GTV6.

Here in the U.S. the E36 M3 only had 240 hp so a really hot GTV6 can beat them in a straight line. The newer BMW M engines are incredible. It would be hard to outpower them with just about any 80's era motor without sinking a ton of money into it.

My old gtv....-Barry