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I maintained two practices in driving the car which were confirmed (big time!)
by the tear down.  

First, in warming the engine, I have always been careful to use no more than
1/2 throttle and no more than 3000 RPM until the water temp is well off the
peg.  Once the temp is up enough, I was always very agressive in using revs
and throttle.  The crankshaft journals and bearings were amazingly clean and
wear-free.  They looked to have 1/4 or less of the actual miles.

Second, I always get the transmission into neutral and my foot off the clutch
pedal as quickly as reasonable at signals, etc., to limit wear on the
throw-out bearing.  The guy tearing the engine down said that he has never
seen so little wear on the thrust bearings in an engine, before.  

So, these are two prooven ways to extend the life of your precious Alfa engines.

chrisp

> Date: Thu, 14 Jan 1999 15:36:39 +1000
> From: Bill_Magoffin@domain.elided
> Subject: Unleaded V6's
> 
> Keith Walker says:
> 
> "A couple of Australian correspondents have mentioned when the
> unleaded GTV6 engines came into use."  and passes on that all the V6's are
> capable of running on unleaded.
> 
> This is useful info since leaded (Super) is becoming more expensive as they
> tax we environmental vandals (classic car drivers) more and more.
> 
> The issue is not really that the earlier cars could not run on Unleaded,
> more that the later cars required it, presumably because they had a cat
> which would be ruined by the leaded fuel. From 1986 all new cars had to use
> Unleaded only by law. Fuel fillers were modified so that only Unleaded pump
> nozzles would fit cars produced after 1986.
> 
> Regds
> 
> Bill

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