Re: alfa-digest V9 #16

[Tony Lupton <tony@domain.elided>]

"il fossile' wrote:
> Lot's of aero devices are popular today, but this one was on the
> production Turbo Giulietta and had only a half dozen parts.  As the 
> vehicle velocity increased, the air dam (chin "spoiler" sic) lowered 
> itself by a calibrated spring mechanism and forced the nose down.  
> Later thrown out as it was found to cause overheating of the 
> transaxle.

Also used in production on the Alfa 90 - some 56000 vehicles, though
probably with a less deep dam than on the turbo giulietta, as transaxle
overheating is not a known problem with 90s.

Tony
1985 Alfa 90 2.5i
www.alfa90.org


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