RE: 16V 164?

[Gordon de la Mare <gdm00@domain.elided>]

The last major update to the 2.0litre twin-spark was in 1994 - body changes for
the Super, interior changes (esp A/C) and a move to electronic ignition. My
first 164 twin spark has a pair of distributors for ignition, my later one had
Bosch Electronic that was prone to corrrosion at the end of the plug leads. 
The engine, otherwise, was the same as the older Alfa 4 cylinder engines - in
fact didn't look a lot different to my earlier '69 GTV apart from being across
the chassis.  The newer engine fitted to the GTV and Spider is pretty much a
FIAT derirative as far as I could ever tell and didn't seem to possess as much
grunt.
Rgds
Gordon
> From: JHertzman@domain.elided
> Michael Murphy asks " Does anyone know if the 164 tspark ever got the later 
> twin spark engine, as fitted to the GTV...?  I assumed it did, but I've been 
> told otherwise recently."
> 
> D'Amico & Tabucchi list a 2.0i 16V Twin Spark motore tipo 16201 1970 cc, 83 x 
> 91 alesaggio e corsa for the GTV and Spider, and three types of eight-valve 
> 2.0i engines (tipi 06416, 06420, 64103), 1962 cc, alesaggio e corsa 84 x 88.5 
> mm for the 164. If the 164 got the 16 valve engine (assuming d'A&T are 
> correct, which is probable but never certain) it would have been after 1996, 
> when the GTV and Spider had been in production for two years. Seems doubtful 
> to me.

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