My new Giulietta Cloverleaf

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LJGTA

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45 posts

162 months

Friday 1st November 2013
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Picked it up about 2 weeks ago now and absolutley love it. its my 4th Alfa and follows a 1.6 147, 147 GTA & a MiTo Cloverleaf smile Picked it up on the way to a trackday at Llandow with some maserati's, alfa's and a few lotus's. Its's a great car and i've got a few plans for it to make it even better biggrin













some more pics here if anyone wants to see them smile

http://www.alfadriver.com/forum/index.php/topic/45...

Pooh

3,692 posts

252 months

Saturday 2nd November 2013
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Very nice thumbup are you enjoying driving it?

LJGTA

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162 months

Sunday 3rd November 2013
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Thanks biggrin its great to drive and i love it. i can't see what people don't like about them tbh. it handles rally well for a standard car it goes pretty well too. put it on a dyno today and its 238bhp so need to start working on that, got a few mods lined up for it which should hopefully start next week biggrin

Pooh

3,692 posts

252 months

Sunday 3rd November 2013
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Sounds good, I will be interested to hear how you get on with the mods.

LJGTA

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45 posts

162 months

Monday 4th November 2013
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the long term plan is upgrade the brakes (fluid and hoses to start with as the pads and discs are ok for now ) custom remap, air filter, exhaust, possible hybrid turbo, KW suspension (V2's probably), wheel spacers and maybe some different wheels as im not 100% sure on the standard QV alloys its got on it already. Been speaking with an Alfa specialist in watford who are very good about the work i have planned.

All that depends on time/money though but i intend to keep the car for a while, been swapping about too much in the past couple of years so need to keep this 1 longer laugh

Edited by LJGQV on Saturday 24th October 23:14

Pooh

3,692 posts

252 months

Monday 4th November 2013
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That sounds like an interesting and expensive plan, I am not a huge fan of those wheels either, my Sportiva came with them but I got the dealer to swap them for the 8c style ones which suit the car much better IMO as well as being more traditionally Alfa.

LJGTA

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162 months

Monday 4th November 2013
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I love the 8C style wheels, i was looking at the Brera S or 159 Ti's to be a bit difrent too.

It will be a bit of a project which will all depend on time/money but i don't have a set time i want it done in, just be good to get it exactly how i want it smile

Have you done anything to your Giulietta?

Edited by LJGTA on Monday 4th November 23:07

Pooh

3,692 posts

252 months

Tuesday 5th November 2013
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LJGTA said:
I love the 8C style wheels, i was looking at the Brera S or 159 Ti's to be a bit difrent too.

It will be a bit of a project which will all depend on time/money but i don't have a set time i want it done in, just be good to get it exactly how i want it smile

Have you done anything to your Giulietta?

Edited by LJGTA on Monday 4th November 23:07
Brera S wheels are very nice and quite light but the tyres for them are very expensive and they are supposed to be prone to cracking but having said that I did 105k miles in my Brera S with no problems.
I have so far resisted the temptation to fiddle with my Giulietta but I am tempted to modify the induction, exhaust and dampers because I would like a nicer noise, a little more power and the damping is a bit soft for my taste, especially when compared to my Brera.

V6Alfisti

3,305 posts

226 months

Tuesday 5th November 2013
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Lovely

PS: Is your coolant a little low?

LJGTA

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162 months

Tuesday 5th November 2013
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Pooh said:
Brera S wheels are very nice and quite light but the tyres for them are very expensive and they are supposed to be prone to cracking but having said that I did 105k miles in my Brera S with no problems.
I have so far resisted the temptation to fiddle with my Giulietta but I am tempted to modify the induction, exhaust and dampers because I would like a nicer noise, a little more power and the damping is a bit soft for my taste, especially when compared to my Brera.
i did notice the price of tyres was quite expensive for the 19's laugh

I was going to leave this car standard (and my last 1) but i couldn't resist and once i started looking at stuff i thought i might do a few bits to it idea



V6Alfisti said:
Lovely

PS: Is your coolant a little low?
Thanks smile it was down slightly at the time (looks lower than it was in the photo) but its been topped up to where it should be now smile

likesachange

2,630 posts

193 months

Wednesday 6th November 2013
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They are stunning cars, but something is missing from them IMO... But can't quite put my finger on it...
Not *hot hatch* enough ... Would have one over a golf GTi but not a Megane 250...

What kind of power can you achieve from a remap and hybrid?? Internals strong enough?

LJGTA

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162 months

Thursday 7th November 2013
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likesachange said:
They are stunning cars, but something is missing from them IMO... But can't quite put my finger on it...
Not *hot hatch* enough ... Would have one over a golf GTi but not a Megane 250...

What kind of power can you achieve from a remap and hybrid?? Internals strong enough?
i know what you mean, with the standard car its like they nearly got it right but then didn't quite get it there, not sure what they missed though. 1 thing they should have done better where the seats (in the Qv at least, the seats in the my 147 GTA were great) Thats 1 reason why im doing stuff to mine, hopefully when im done it will be exactly how i want it to be.

Im not 100% sure on what power it could achieve from the map and hybrid turbo, tbh i haven't really asked them as its just an idea at the moment and is something that needs looking into before starting work on it but the people doing the work are very good and experienced in tuning cars and if/when the time comes i know they wouldn't do anything without being sure it would work or not smile Anything they are doing to it at the moment is being dyno tested aswell to see what each 'upgrade' is doing and if it works or if it has the opposite effect.

Im getting the work done at an Alfa specialist in watford called ProAlfa - http://www.proalfa.com Chris & Fred are great and highly recomended thumbup

Soupie69uk

922 posts

216 months

Friday 8th November 2013
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Saw a slightly lowered one of these in Como at the weekend and it had some teledial style wheels fitted and it made such a difference.

Lovely car.

V6Alfisti

3,305 posts

226 months

Friday 8th November 2013
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likesachange said:
What kind of power can you achieve from a remap and hybrid?? Internals strong enough?
AHM remap to 290bhp and the engine internals are reputed to be suitable for up to 350bhp.

Some say that these can come with up to 20bhp more from the factory.

Edited by V6Alfisti on Friday 8th November 10:52

LJGQV

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162 months

Friday 8th November 2013
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its ready biggrin i was on my way home from work and just passing when i got a photo off of fred with the torque figures off the dyno printout so i had to drop in and have a look. to say im happy with what they have done is a massive understatment and the exhaust looks and sounds great. fred spent a whole day with it on the dyno and the results are well worth it. i will put some more photo's up over the next couple of days and also the dyno printouts. i haven't driven it yet as i was in my work stuff and it was dark and chucking it down with rain but i can't wait to pick it up tomorow. apparently people from around the industrial estate they are on were going in to see what was on the dyno thinking it would be a high powered skyline or something like that and were surprised to see an Alfa biggrin itomorow can't come quick enough now and i can't thank chrs and fredd enough forthe time and effort they have put into my car over the last couple of days thumbup

clarkmagpie

3,559 posts

194 months

Friday 8th November 2013
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Roughly what sort of mpg do you get?
I love the look of them, so much more special than its competitors.

LJGQV

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162 months

Friday 8th November 2013
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on the trackday it was averaging 10.2 but i wouldn't say that was a good place to measure from laugh. day to day driving its anything from high 20's (usually about 28-29 mpg) but on the way down to wales or on the motorway i did see it up at around 38-39 mpg. depends how its being driven really. when you push it though it can drop to about 22-23. the way it handles though for a standard car is great, in standard form this is the best handling car i've owned. a lot of people don't like the Giulieta for some reason, a lot of people say its not a real alfa or its too modern or its no V6 etc but if they were to drive 1 im sure they would be surprised smile

Alfahorn

7,758 posts

207 months

Saturday 9th November 2013
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Great car.

I've got a 2012 G JTDM TCT and love it to death. Already cranked it up to 32,000 miles....lol

LJGQV

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162 months

Sunday 10th November 2013
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Alfahorn said:
Great car.

I've got a 2012 G JTDM TCT and love it to death. Already cranked it up to 32,000 miles....lol
Nice, my mates mum has a diesel Giulietta too in 8C red and thats a great car too smile

i picked mine up this morning and its a completly difrent car. big thanks to Chris & Fred for what they have done and the results are very impressive. i can post the dyno graphs on here if anyne is interested but it came out at 301.7 bhp & 338.6 ft-lb biggrin there is more to get from it but intake temps were getting high so Fred cut it back to keep it running safely etc. an FMIC &/or WMI will be a big help but for now its more than enough laugh

likesachange

2,630 posts

193 months

Sunday 10th November 2013
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Great results, can't be many if any others running that power in uk?
Keep it up