Alfa-powered Hot Rod

[Sheldon McIntosh]

http://www.build-threads.com/build-threads/alfa-romeo-hot-rod/

[Darryl]

Personally I like this:

http://www.norfolkstreetcruisers.co.uk/A_Build.htm

which is far more hotrod in spirit and has some cool features (like the old downdraft carbs used as EFI throttle-bodies...)

And more locally there is someone in Sydney with a yellow rod that was the first Alfa transaxle drivetrain rod I had heard of. It started off with a 4 cylinder in it and later went to a 2.5 V6. Hmm - pics etc seem to have vanished but have a look at http://www.alfabb.com/bb/forums/engine-conversions/157122-alfarod-goes-nord-6-under-12-months.html

[Sam]

Try this one,

http://www.hotrodders.com/vehicles/137.html
Its owned by Brett Calvert in Sydney.
The link shows the car when It was a 2litre with a MegaSquirt EFI and EDIS4 ignition. I believe it s running a 3 litre now.

there may be some vids on you tube when it ran at a hill climb a few years back and one of the 3ltr engine running

Sam

[Storm_X]

Nice cars and all but for me its an ego killer rocking up to a hod rod meet with all the big block hot rods and me in my 4cyl hot rod.

[Sam]

His latest mod was to put a 3ltr in it.

It looks pretty cool.

Because the Alfa cam covers are kind of flat looking, it almost looks the part, Yes I know it's not a v8, but I guess he wanted something different.

He used to have a web page where he documented the entire build. If I remember correctly, he also had an Alfetta rear end.

My interest in this is because he used a Megasquirt II and EDIS which I'm (very) slowly doing too.

So far I have my car running on EDIS, almost have the tacho working, have the computer built and hope to get it running with mapped ignition by the Weekend, as long as I can get a cam cover (see other post elsewhere)

[Duk]

With all of the room, an Eaton supercharger sitting on top of a V6 (with a water to air intercooler squeezed in there too) would be hot rod cool. Have some retro style blower hat poking through the bonnet as a throttle body (obviously would have to feed into the back of the Eaton). Chuck in a nicely concealed set of injectors and wiring, blown grunt, awesome drivability and fuel economy with Alfa music 

Would have been nice to see him do something about the front suspension geometry while he was building chassis's from scratch, though