Alfa 156 trackcar anyone?

[sniff diesel]

Looks like it could make a good base for someone, so much hard work has been done already:

http://www.touringcarspares.com/car_details.php?id...

Just get a cheap damaged 3l V6 156 and swap the running gear into it.

[T89 Callan]

£450!

It's times like this that being jobless really depresses me.

[T89 Callan]

£450!

It's times like this that being jobless really depresses me.

[sniff diesel]

T89 Callan said:

£450!

It's times like this that being jobless really depresses me.

I'm sure a man of your skills could put it together, do a couple of trackdays to "test" it, and sell it on for a bit of profit in the spring.

If you look through the other parts for sale on TCS there's a few other tasty 156 bits.

[T89 Callan]

sniff diesel said:

T89 Callan said:

£450!

It's times like this that being jobless really depresses me.

I'm sure a man of your skills could put it together, do a couple of trackdays to "test" it, and sell it on for a bit of profit in the spring.

If you look through the other parts for sale on TCS there's a few other tasty 156 bits.

Thats the thing, I haven't even got the measly sum of £450 to outlay. If I had a job I could bung it on the credit card.

I'd buy that an a rusty 156 road car and build a track beast but I just don't have the cash to hand. Not even having any luck selling the E30 at the moment either.

[Rollcage]

sniff diesel said:

Looks like it could make a good base for someone, so much hard work has been done already:

http://www.touringcarspares.com/car_details.php?id...

Just get a cheap damaged 3l V6 156 and swap the running gear into it.

156's are all 2.5 apart from the GTA, and that certainly won't be cheap.

An engine from a 166 would be ok, but the 3.0 V6 24v is not a desperately cheap engine 2nd hand ,as it is popular with the kit car boys.

[sniff diesel]

Rollcage said:

sniff diesel said:

Looks like it could make a good base for someone, so much hard work has been done already:

http://www.touringcarspares.com/car_details.php?id...

Just get a cheap damaged 3l V6 156 and swap the running gear into it.

156's are all 2.5 apart from the GTA, and that certainly won't be cheap.

An engine from a 166 would be ok, but the 3.0 V6 24v is not a desperately cheap engine 2nd hand ,as it is popular with the kit car boys.

Yeah, I forgot that the 3l V6 was never fitted to the 156 like the GTV and 166. I'm not really that au fait with Alfas, I just spotted the caged shell whilst browsing for some track bits for my M3 and thought I'd give it a larger audience.

[agent006]

Surely there must come a point at which a bare shell is more faff than converting a road car.

Also, given that the same car is listed in their sold section as being broken for parts; you do rather wonder what was wrong with it.

[mgv8dave]

Owning a Alfa i can tell you that 156 engines car be a costly part of any package.

just spent £1500 on mine in the last month and that was just a Cam belt and service with a set of shels for the Crank.

[sniff diesel]

mgv8dave said:

Owning a Alfa i can tell you that 156 engines car be a costly part of any package.

just spent £1500 on mine in the last month and that was just a Cam belt and service with a set of shels for the Crank.

But shirley a lot of that cost was labour. If the engine was already out of the car things like cambelts and waterpumps are a lot easier to change, and if someone had the skills to fit the engine then they should have the skills to give it a good service before it went in.

[T89 Callan]

sniff diesel said:

mgv8dave said:

Owning a Alfa i can tell you that 156 engines car be a costly part of any package.

just spent £1500 on mine in the last month and that was just a Cam belt and service with a set of shels for the Crank.

But shirley a lot of that cost was labour. If the engine was already out of the car things like cambelts and waterpumps are a lot easier to change, and if someone had the skills to fit the engine then they should have the skills to give it a good service before it went in.

Wouldn't be a hard job out on the bench, not a particularly hard job when in situ'

[Rollcage]

T89 Callan said:

sniff diesel said:

mgv8dave said:

Owning a Alfa i can tell you that 156 engines car be a costly part of any package.

just spent £1500 on mine in the last month and that was just a Cam belt and service with a set of shels for the Crank.

But shirley a lot of that cost was labour. If the engine was already out of the car things like cambelts and waterpumps are a lot easier to change, and if someone had the skills to fit the engine then they should have the skills to give it a good service before it went in.

Wouldn't be a hard job out on the bench, not a particularly hard job when in situ'

Oil pump is in the way IIRC.

[DiscoColin]

I thought that the Honda BTCC engine on the same site was much more interesting - anybody with a Lotus that needs an upgrade

[chris7676]

Is it a really good track car? And you seem to make an assumption that everyone can swap engine without any hassle or cost... I think it's you who are the special case

[T89 Callan]

chris7676 said:

Is it a really good track car? And you seem to make an assumption that everyone can swap engine without any hassle or cost... I think it's you who are the special case

It's not necesarily a good track car but it is the best place to start. If you start with a road car the shell is going to be a bendy road shell with an afterthought cage that has been subject to years of salt and water.

That shell on the other hand has been acid dipped, stitch welded and properly caged.

Also working on race cars is 10x easier than road cars, there is so much less st in the way removing the bits you needed from a road car (Drive-train, fuel system, brakes and and wiring) would be a fairly simple job.