RE: PH Carpool: Hawk Stratos

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Blib said:

Gozza said:

Just wanted to add one last comment.
Car has sold for £28k to a nice man in Sweden

Who would want to pay that much for a rep...well someone did

Well it's about 1/20 the amount being banded about for a copy of the black one that the german chap has built.

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ChrisJ. said:

Gary C said:

A Hawk is on the list of the cars I want to build on retiring, and I would have an alfa V6 in it, maybe with some high overlap cams, carbs and lots of banging and popping

Edited by Gary C on Sunday 5th August 10:33

Jenvey ITBs are the only option beyond the standard single plenum set up.
Every Alfa V6 Stratos rep. engine is canted, and there are no carb manifolds available. Fitting IDF or DCNF webers would be very difficult.
The only production Alfa V6 with carbs. was a 3.0 S.A. GTV6, which ran 6 individual single downdraught carbs. To fit one of those to a FWD Alfa gearbox, you'd need to have a modified bell housing and one off engine mounts.

There are a good half dozen Alfa V6 Hawks now with Jenveys.

And carbs were used on the original Busso V6 installation, the Alfa 6. That's where ARSA got the carb setup from for the GTV6 3.0. South Africa has some racetracks at sea level and others at close to 6000ft, and at the time the developers decided it would be easier to swap jets in carbs to accommodate the altitude changes between races rather than convince the fuel injection system to cope.

I don't know whether the carbs and plenum can be bolted on to a 12v FWD engine or not, I assume by then the head had changed (the GTV6 3.0s were built around 1983 / 4) but having the engine canted wouldn't help things at all anyway. Either way for road use the fuel injection is a lot easier to live with. It was six single choke Dell'Ortos and finding someone who had the equipment and talent to balance those well was actually quite tricky. By the '90s there were only a handful of experts in South Africa who were trusted to tune a 3.0.

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Excuse the thread bump but only just caught up with this. Absolutely gorgeous car. Did you sell it?