164 'Restoration'

[poohbah]

Andrew, I reckon you have the makings of a new business - A 164 hire fleet for Alfisti Weddings and Funerals

BTW - that must be the best looking street in Australia.

[ARQ164 Shane]

BTW - that must be the best looking street in Australia.
here here lol

[V AR 164]

Hehehe, a wedding car hire company sounds good to me

Shane, one of your 164's is going to become a ute? Fill me in with your plans!

Andrew.

[ARQ164 Shane]

A few weeks ago I saw looking on the net and found a cool photo of an Alfa 164 Ute.
So I have started on my, taking lot of pic but not ready to reveal get
what this space. Lol

[V AR 164]

That's pretty cool, will definitely be interested to how it turns out.

How low can you guys go? This is my Q currently. Looks great but is ridiculously low, will definitely not pass roadworthy. Surprisingly doesn't scrape as much as I thought lol.





Andrew.

[poohbah]

I reckon your Q looks roughly about as low as my GTV.

Is it just the skirts/spoiler that are an issue, or does the underside/exhaust etc also scrape when you go over speed bumpsc? If its just skirts/spoiler scraping, maybe you can just take 'em off for the inspection?

Luckily in WA, you don't need to get regular RWCs as long as you keep the car registered continuously and it does't attract unnecessary attention from the coppers for obvious faults.

I checked the DoT records for mine and its last "official" inspection was in 1989!

[V AR 164]

So you guys in W.A don't need to get an inspection when changing owners? Lucky! Here in VIC, we don't need regular checks, we just get an inspection when transferring registration or registering a car that has been unregistered.

The skirts are the things that scrape. I was considering taking them off too but the subframe is a tad lower than the legal limit aswell. I'm just gonna go for the roadworthy soon and see what needs to be done.

Andrew.

[poohbah]

Good luck with the RWC.

It certainly takes some of the hassle out of selling cars over here, not having to get a roadworthy every time you sell.

You do need to go over the pits to register a car from interstate or O/S though.

[VeeSix]

 

[poohbah]

Well that's one way to remove rust from the subframe!

BTW Andrew, I saw your silver 164 advertised on gumtree. Any luck selling it?

[V AR 164]

Well that's one way to remove rust from the subframe!

I reckon! Ouch that hurts just looking at it!

I have had a guy offer me 450 for it on Sunday, I turned it down because it's worth way more and it's just to good to use as a parts car which is what he wanted to do with it. So it's still for sale.

Andrew.

[poohbah]

Definitely worth more than that. I thought you were generous at $900. If I was in Vic I would probably be tempted.

[V AR 164]

Hey guys,

I can't seem to get my bootlid to stay open. I open it, but it just falls back down again as the springs that hold it up are not strong enough. I have tried swapping them over from another car but they do the same thing.

It is because of the spoiler which makes the bootlid heavier. So my question is, are the springs on a Q different to a standard 164? And is there any way of fixing it?

I have move the springs to the 3rd most setting but it still doesn't stay up.

Cheers, Andrew.

[poohbah]

Does the 164 have gas struts in the boot, like the 156? If so, you could get them regassed.

Just realised that's a stupid question, you said it has springs. I'll go back to sleep...

[V AR 164]

Hahaha all good.

Actually that sounds like a good idea 

Somehow modifying gas struts to fit. Maybe eventually I'll look into it as I can assume it would cost a lot for fabrication of brackets etc.

Andrew.