Engine weight

["Ken Stevenson" <k.stevenson@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Two years ago someone requested the weight of an Alfa Romeo V6 engine.  I
responded with a number from memory that was wrong.  My memory was way off
at the time and my reasonableness checker was also out of order. The wrong
engine weight was picked up and published in one of the local newsletters
and onto a web based archive of the local newsletter. I found my error
today, a correction follows.  Lesson learned, don't quote from memory
without certainty.

The Alfa Romeo V6 weighs 375 pounds, no doubt a bit more for the 24 valve
version. My source of information provides the following Alfa engine
weights.

                                     weight
      engine                     pounds                comments

 Alfasud flat-4                   240                  "complete"
 Alfa Romeo SOHC V6      375
 Alfa Romeo 415/85T        279          F1 four, '87 season
 Alfa 155 V6 TI                 242          BTCC Class 1 race engine

Credit to Dave Williams for the research. Dave's work and sources are listed
at the web link below. An earlier version of Dave's work was the source of
my original mistaken memory, blame to early morning caffeine deficiency.

source:          http://members.fullnet.net/mulligan/weight.txt

regards,
Ken Stevenson

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