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Hi Tony,
Have had expewrience with 3 of these, one I owned and the other two owned by a friend of mine that I partially restored for him.
The one I had was a 2300 Sprint Veloce; it was a beautifully made car and quite different from the smaller Fiats in quality.
It sounded really nice going throught the gears and if memory serves correctly had a five speed ZF 'box.
The one peculiar set up that I changed on mine was the carbs. The original setup was twin 40 DCOE Webbers, but mounted on two, three-port manifolds; really peculiar because it meant that you had two chokes on each carb feeding three ports, which doesn't really work with a carb like a Webber, the whole point of it is to feed each port separately for maximum efficiency.
When I did the head on my car, I found that nos. 1 and 6 exhaust valves were quite pitted and this was because those cylinders were probably leaning out at revs due to being furthest from the carb chokes.
So what you want ideally is three carbs and a manifold to suit and you will find that spot on.
The only other thing to watch in true Italian tradition is rust.
Have had expewrience with 3 of these, one I owned and the other two owned by a friend of mine that I partially restored for him.
The one I had was a 2300 Sprint Veloce; it was a beautifully made car and quite different from the smaller Fiats in quality.
It sounded really nice going throught the gears and if memory serves correctly had a five speed ZF 'box.
The one peculiar set up that I changed on mine was the carbs. The original setup was twin 40 DCOE Webbers, but mounted on two, three-port manifolds; really peculiar because it meant that you had two chokes on each carb feeding three ports, which doesn't really work with a carb like a Webber, the whole point of it is to feed each port separately for maximum efficiency.
When I did the head on my car, I found that nos. 1 and 6 exhaust valves were quite pitted and this was because those cylinders were probably leaning out at revs due to being furthest from the carb chokes.
So what you want ideally is three carbs and a manifold to suit and you will find that spot on.
The only other thing to watch in true Italian tradition is rust.
Very rare and exotic-looking car at an incredibly low price for what it is, especially seeing as though it's been restored too. It'll only appreciate and it looks like the sort of thing you could park in Monaco or on Park Lane and only the cognoscenti would know it wasn't a classic Ferrari. Beautiful - buy it before someone else does!mr_tony said:
mark dixon - practical classics apparrently after a bit of googlewhacking 
Thanks for sorting that. The nurse has agreed to reduce my medication as I was half right (or did she say half wit...).....
I think Mr Dixon bought this one which was good but needed some work, But then an A+ car turned up needing nothing done. So he bought that one as well.
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