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- Tue Mar 05, 2024 2:31 am
- Forum: OTHER STUFF
- Topic: My old sprint
- Replies: 10
- Views: 251
Re: My old sprint
My pm’s for some reason were knocked off (by me) but I’ve put ‘em on again now.
- Tue Mar 05, 2024 2:19 am
- Forum: OTHER STUFF
- Topic: My old sprint
- Replies: 10
- Views: 251
Re: My old sprint
Not for eBay. I’ve carted that thing round the U.K. with insufficient skill to get it properly sorted. I’ve paid thousands to have a new motor put in it as the 33 motor it has when I got it was wrecked and had the gearbox rebuilt. It doesn’t work yet but frankly I’ll be damned if it’s going to some ...
- Mon Mar 04, 2024 12:34 am
- Forum: OTHER STUFF
- Topic: My old sprint
- Replies: 10
- Views: 251
Re: My old sprint
Here are photos of it. When I say dismantled it’s all there, I just think it will all need to come apart. I dropped the engine to rescue the bulkhead which is now sound and the engine is back in and I’m reattaching the plumbing. I just think it will need a rebuild. For the avoidance of doubt it’s fr...
- Sun Mar 03, 2024 1:36 pm
- Forum: OTHER STUFF
- Topic: My old sprint
- Replies: 10
- Views: 251
My old sprint
After having a brush with the C word, which was hopefully caught early I’ve changed course a bit so if it happens again I don’t saddle my loved ones with stuff and I’m spending more time with the kids. To this end the old Alfasud sprint hill climber which was half disassembled (badly) by me needs to...
- Sat Feb 26, 2022 1:45 pm
- Forum: ALFASUD, SPRINT, 33
- Topic: Roger Evans
- Replies: 6
- Views: 860
Re: Roger Evans
Brilliant Louise thanks.
- Sat Feb 26, 2022 11:45 am
- Forum: ALFASUD, SPRINT, 33
- Topic: Roger Evans
- Replies: 6
- Views: 860
Re: Roger Evans
Retired! I’m sure he’s younger than me! He’s only a bairn!
- Sat Feb 26, 2022 2:17 am
- Forum: ALFASUD, SPRINT, 33
- Topic: Roger Evans
- Replies: 6
- Views: 860
Roger Evans
Slightly off Alfasud albeit I still have my sprint. Sorry I can’t remember if I have asked this before. I’d love to find out out if Roger Evans can build me a special V6 for a Stratos rep that’s arriving in the future - I can wait 18 months - but I can’t even see a website for Peak Alfa and I live a...
- Mon Jul 06, 2020 10:00 pm
- Forum: ALFASUD, SPRINT, 33
- Topic: Ignition switch
- Replies: 24
- Views: 3886
Re: Ignition switch
I’ve got the race car set up with the button. I take the battery master out and just in case I’ve a second switch if I was ever leaving it for a long time.
The WD40 strips the oil off - PTFE is about the only useful thing you can buy in Homebase these days since they stopped selling mars bars.
The WD40 strips the oil off - PTFE is about the only useful thing you can buy in Homebase these days since they stopped selling mars bars.
- Tue Jun 30, 2020 1:32 pm
- Forum: ALFASUD, SPRINT, 33
- Topic: Tail mounting - later 33 based cars
- Replies: 4
- Views: 1226
Re: Tail mounting - later 33 based cars
As my car is still stuck in the air I might take mine off to measure. I saw some ones off a Scania Truck sway bar that looked about the same size and shape were £7 and should be a smidgen firmer but of course no idea if they would fit.
- Mon Jun 29, 2020 6:45 pm
- Forum: ALFASUD, SPRINT, 33
- Topic: Tail mounting - later 33 based cars
- Replies: 4
- Views: 1226
Re: Tail mounting - later 33 based cars
I haven’t had them out on mine so I don’t know how squidgy the standard ones are. I’ll be driving mine on the road so solid bushes might be a bit much. I wonder if there is a half way house that fits in the trillion bushes out there.
- Sun Jun 28, 2020 10:15 pm
- Forum: ALFASUD, SPRINT, 33
- Topic: Tail mounting - later 33 based cars
- Replies: 4
- Views: 1226
Tail mounting - later 33 based cars
My sprint is late 83 and has what I think is a later pressed steel tail at the end of the gearbox which appears a bit floppy and a floppy bit of rubber through which a tail mounting (bar/pipe?) passes through and is bolted to the floor. I only have a Haynes manual up to 84 which shows the tail mount...
- Sun Jun 21, 2020 4:06 pm
- Forum: ALFASUD, SPRINT, 33
- Topic: Tims' Sud
- Replies: 229
- Views: 40275
Re: Tims' Sud
Shame I can’t find suckers who bought / buy emins crap, and that other d!ck head so called artist whose name escapes me, bald obnoxious bloke, to pay ridiculous sums of money for kevs art. Main difference is kevs is quality and emins and the nob I’m referring to is junk. 😀 Damien Hirst. The late Da...
- Sun Jun 21, 2020 2:37 pm
- Forum: ALFASUD, SPRINT, 33
- Topic: Tims' Sud
- Replies: 229
- Views: 40275
Re: Tims' Sud
It’s a lot more relevant to my life than Emin. It’s also probably a lot better than Alfa managed first time round.
- Sat Jun 20, 2020 6:56 pm
- Forum: ALFASUD, SPRINT, 33
- Topic: Tims' Sud
- Replies: 229
- Views: 40275
Re: Tims' Sud
One of my other hobbies is collecting contemporary art from the St Ives and Newlyn schools - Jesus it’s like an artists studio there. I’ve been putting my motor back in today and I’m ashamed of my working environment in comparison.
- Fri Jun 19, 2020 10:36 am
- Forum: CLASSIC ALFAS FOR SALE
- Topic: Alfasud SC five door on eBay
- Replies: 4
- Views: 2642
Re: Alfasud SC five door on eBay
I’ve just looked. They’ve got loads of good things. I’ve never owned one (except a Caterham which is mostly Ali) but I’m a big fan of small glass coupes.
A former colleague collects Clans for classic rallying but I get the impression from him they are harder to maintain than I dream of.
A former colleague collects Clans for classic rallying but I get the impression from him they are harder to maintain than I dream of.
- Thu Jun 18, 2020 11:09 pm
- Forum: CLASSIC ALFAS FOR SALE
- Topic: Alfasud SC five door on eBay
- Replies: 4
- Views: 2642
Re: Alfasud SC five door on eBay
TI’s and the “top dog” models of all 70s classics have sky rocketed. I think vendors of plainer cars hope the values of their cars, particularly in stronger colours like this are pulled up with them. Do you have a Rochdale Olympic? I’ve never seen one in real life. I used to love reading Malcolm Mac...
- Thu Jun 18, 2020 1:39 pm
- Forum: CLASSIC ALFAS FOR SALE
- Topic: Alfasud SC five door on eBay
- Replies: 4
- Views: 2642
Alfasud SC five door on eBay
https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/Alfa-Romeo-A ... 4049399704
Not sure the picture of the telephone or the car under a rescue blanket add anything to the advert.
Not sure the picture of the telephone or the car under a rescue blanket add anything to the advert.
- Mon Jun 15, 2020 6:22 pm
- Forum: CLASSIC ALFAS FOR SALE
- Topic: eBay again but a 33
- Replies: 9
- Views: 2777
Re: eBay again but a 33
Yep there is not a lot of room to work with to see what’s going on. If I recall correctly the coil is with the engine and not up front. I was never wholly convinced a fuel tank in the engine bay was a great idea. If I get one again I’m having both a plumbed in extinguisher and a camera mounted in th...
- Mon Jun 15, 2020 5:17 pm
- Forum: CLASSIC ALFAS FOR SALE
- Topic: eBay again but a 33
- Replies: 9
- Views: 2777
Re: eBay again but a 33
It was more like why have the police called round asking about a silver sports car registered in my name moving between Public car parks and streets, being parked for days and then being moved in the middle of the night. Matra Murena 2.2 full history - only lhd and the engine isn’t the best but the ...
- Mon Jun 15, 2020 12:17 pm
- Forum: ALFASUD, SPRINT, 33
- Topic: Sprint Rear Quater Structure Pictures
- Replies: 6
- Views: 1778
Re: Sprint Rear Quater Structure Pictures
I’ll be interested to see how you get on as we have similar cars albeit mine started life as 1500 and is stripped as road legal hill climber by a former owner. I may ask for close ups of bits and bobs in due course.
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- Mon Jun 15, 2020 12:03 am
- Forum: ALFASUD, SPRINT, 33
- Topic: Windscreen Wiper Motor
- Replies: 4
- Views: 1339
Re: Windscreen Wiper Motor
My electrics were crap but I spent a day going over every contact with special attention to the earths and fuses with emery paper, contact cleaner and cotton buds and it’s much better.
- Sun Jun 14, 2020 11:49 pm
- Forum: ALFASUD, SPRINT, 33
- Topic: Sprint Rear Quater Structure Pictures
- Replies: 6
- Views: 1778
Re: Sprint Rear Quater Structure Pictures
I don’t have any pics as fortunately my cars body was done really well by the former owner and I’ve not really needed to touch the body other than strip and repaint the bay during lockdown.. I’ve got plastic rear qtrs which you’d never know and light as a feather. Not my first choice but I’m a lot m...
- Sun Jun 14, 2020 5:35 pm
- Forum: CLASSIC ALFAS FOR SALE
- Topic: eBay again but a 33
- Replies: 9
- Views: 2777
- Sun Jun 14, 2020 1:40 pm
- Forum: CLASSIC ALFAS FOR SALE
- Topic: eBay again but a 33
- Replies: 9
- Views: 2777
Re: eBay again but a 33
Fixed price https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/Alfa-Romeo-33-Ti-Veloce/333616376776 I don’t know if Stilauto alloys are a “thing” or not but in the picture they look like revs I’ve tried to make at home. Having said that I want it but then I want all red 33s - I don’t have time to drive to slough to see an...
- Sun Jun 14, 2020 1:19 pm
- Forum: ALFASUD, SPRINT, 33
- Topic: Brands
- Replies: 3
- Views: 1376
Re: Brands
I think a number of the internet groans on other non Alfa forums (eg piston heads)arise from stuff failing quickly when it isn’t fitted properly and then the parts quality gets blamed. I’m not much of a mechanic and far from perfect - I’m very heavy handed with ball joints as one of many examples. H...
- Sun Jun 14, 2020 9:45 am
- Forum: ALFASUD, SPRINT, 33
- Topic: Ridgard
- Replies: 3
- Views: 1099
Re: Ridgard
I liberated one that was on a Lancia I used to own and the Lancia was sold on without it. The Best seat ever in or out of a car. Really light weight too. I’ve used/ got Sparco and Tillets too and they are horrible in comparison. I wanted another to match my seat that’s all. It’s not just the shape a...
- Sun Jun 14, 2020 1:53 am
- Forum: ALFASUD, SPRINT, 33
- Topic: Ridgard
- Replies: 3
- Views: 1099
Ridgard
Dies anyone know if Ridgard designed seats are still being made following Bob’s passing last year. The Ridgard website is still up but that doesn’t necessarily mean anything.
- Sat Jun 13, 2020 1:42 pm
- Forum: GENERAL DISCUSSION
- Topic: It’s You!
- Replies: 1
- Views: 749
It’s You!
I’ve only been in this forum a couple of months and I’ve never met most of you and those who I have - it was years ago when I had the 75 - you won’t remember. However I saw this posted somewhere else and it just reminded me of a number of contributors on this site - please take it as the compliment ...
- Tue Jun 09, 2020 8:18 pm
- Forum: ALFASUD, SPRINT, 33
- Topic: Tims' Sud
- Replies: 229
- Views: 40275
Re: Tims' Sud
Jeez that’s a dangerous game. I’ve been allowed to keep my newly powder coated xmember in the house until it goes back on as it’s very very clean.
- Mon Jun 08, 2020 10:34 pm
- Forum: ALFASUD, SPRINT, 33
- Topic: Gauge Sprint pre 84 bumpers
- Replies: 12
- Views: 2582
Re: Gauge Sprint pre 84 bumpers
I’ve got time in my hands - the delorttos work fine it’s just a waste to have a set of Webers sitting in a box apparently broken but looking much nicer than the delorttos - they look like the chip pan I had as a student.