What is a "Veloce" cam?

["Jay Mackro" <jmackro@domain.elided>]

Tim Lesko had written:

>1600 Veloce cams are 101210320000.
> The cams on ebay are not Veloce cams but are stock: 1600 late
> 105 series, 1300 105 series, early 1750 Euro, 1750 F.I. cams.

I think we are arguing semantics here.  The 105020320001 cams
that a list member is currently selling on EBay were used in the
models that Tim names.  One of these was the Giulia Sprint GT
Veloce, Alfa model 105.36.  So, I think it is accurate to call these
"veloce cams".

Now the earlier 101 series 1600 veloces did use the different cam
that Tim mentions, p/n 101210320000.  Checking the camshaft
chart on page 51 of Centerline's catalog #12, I see the following
specs for these two cams:
                                                 duration at .019"     lift
(mm)
105 veloce 105020320001          278                           9.5
101 veloce 101210320000          274                           9.5

The chart also shows a 1300 veloce cam, that had 279 degrees
of duration when set with .019" of clearance, but only 9.0 mm
of lift.

So, in fact, the cams on E Bay are the second hottest 4 cyl Alfa
factory cams; the #1 honors would go to the 105480320001
cams, which gave 277 degrees of duration @ .019", and had
10.1 mm of lift.  According to the chart, those were delivered
in the late 1750 Euro and 2000 Euro cars, some of which were
bolted into GTV's, so maybe the 10548 could be called a
"veloce cam" as well.

Jay Mackro
San Juan Capistrano, Calif.

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