Re: alfa-digest V8 #820

[dlou <dlou@domain.elided>]

>Date: Sat, 15 Jun 2002 10:23:38 -0400
>From: "Brian Shorey" <bshorey@domain.elided>
>Subject: Tea trays
>
>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.

Hm, were those boxes of scoops labeled "shaker hood"?  Was there
also an option for a massive Roots type supercharger between the V 
and poking up through the hole? (c.f. Mad Max, The Road Warrior)
:-) :-) :-)

-Dennis
Sunnyvale, CA
'85 GTV-6
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