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ITALLIAN MONSTER
Posted: Tue Oct 16, 2007 8:12 am
by mjr
not a gtv6 I know, but what an excellent example of pure italian loviathan. All v6's should sound like this!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ncECnwKU ... r%20salita
Posted: Tue Oct 16, 2007 9:06 am
by Mats
Posted: Tue Oct 16, 2007 9:16 am
by mjr
is it me or has that footage been slightly breathed upon up? even f1 dont go like that! I would love to know the ins and outs of those Ti engines though. Weren't they based on the 164 24valve design, but 2.5 instead of 3 litre? the 155 production 2.5 at that early point was only 12 valve wasnt it?
Posted: Tue Oct 16, 2007 10:18 am
by Mats
eh, no. The TI engine was a completely new engine. 2.5l 24v with 14000rpm as a limit and 375Hp at 10500 IIRC.
Posted: Wed Oct 17, 2007 5:22 am
by Fernando
Mats correct me if I am wrong here,but I recall Alfa also having the heads completely redesigned by Dallara at one stage, when they were struggling to eke out more horsepower during the 94 season ?
Er,Barry how much would one of these cost?
Seriously though that sound gives me goosebumps.
Posted: Wed Oct 17, 2007 6:12 am
by Mats
I have no idea. Too much mystery around those cars, I want to know everything.
Posted: Wed Oct 17, 2007 6:35 am
by Maurizio
This italian has 2 for sale
http://home.mobile.de/cgi-bin/homepageS ... tnerHead=1
And a lot more nice italian monsters for sale
Posted: Wed Oct 17, 2007 7:30 am
by mjr
hmm, annoying, just spent about an hour trawling around the net for info about the V6 in the Ti. theres a surprising amount of information about various 2006 F1 engines!, including, bores, strokes, valve materials etc, and yet absolutely nothing about this Ti V6.
maybe its a good job, otherwise some crazy doode surely would squeeze a Ti engine into a GTV at some point.
hey, maybe Jim G could cover it in his v6 book,
Posted: Wed Oct 17, 2007 8:25 am
by Mats
There is (was?) a norwegian guy who put a V6 TI in a 75. Guess he found that critical speed for the propshaft pretty fast...
Posted: Wed Oct 17, 2007 8:44 am
by PietereQ
As Mats said, the Ti v6 was an engine built compepetely from scratch. AFAIR they were 90 degree v6 unlike the rest of the family. Totally different engines. I guess I had a nice article on that somewhere in my pc, must look for it.
But as far as Italian monsters are concerned...
Not a gtv6, bah not even an alfa, but that is absolutely killer sound :
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=foDcLUhUKqI
