Tea trays

["Brian Shorey" <bshorey@domain.elided>]

The truth about tea trays:

Based on feedback from the factories first attempt at fuel injection,
complete lack of information on the Spica system, and the resulting
overwhelming urge to throw it away and replace it with Webbbers, I think
Alfa engineers assumed that the first thing most Alfa owners would do with
the Bosch system, with equally insufficient information, would be to throw
it away and replace it with three downdrafts (or maybe one big Hollley).

So they factored this in in advance, designing in the removable tea tray.
Early drawings refer to it as a "carb blockoff panel".  First editions of
the factory parts manual show some options, including a large, bolt in hood
scoop for directly feeding cold air to the down drafts.

When, to the shock of the factory, most owners didn't throw away the Bosch
fuel injection, and with thousands of ram air hood scoops sitting on the
shelves collecting dust, the factory did away with the option in the Milano
and later cars.

Glad to have cleared that one up.

bs
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