re: Sperry Stage III a bomb?

[Joe Elliott <jee@domain.elided>]

At 3:26 PM +0000 3/12/03, alfa-digest wrote:
> Date: Wed, 12 Mar 2003 14:11:56 +0100
> From: "Korolyshyn, Dan Mr. DAC DPW ENGR RESOURCE MGMT BR" 
> <Dan.Korolyshyn@domain.elided>
> Subject: Sperry Stage III a bomb?
>
> To make a long story short, after a year of struggling to get a Stage III
> head from Sperry Valve Works, the second head that I received from them
> turned out to be a 2.0 liter head with a combustion chamber that my
> Alfa mechanic here in Italy says is not acceptable for my US spec 1979 Alfa
> Spider engine.  The Sperry head is not a motronic head but has a combustion
> chamber which the mechanic says is deeper than the one on my car, whose
> head I have not taken off yet as I don't want to take my car off the road
> until I get all of my parts together for an engine rebuild.  The mechanic
> says that I can not use this head which is probably off of a two liter
> Alfa 75 (Milano).  Does anyone have any experience or knowledge about this
> issue?  Your thoughts would be greatly appreciated, thanks.
I was pretty sure that all 2L 75s were TwinSpark.  And I don't see 
what's wrong with a deeper combustion chamber--just get appropriately 
different pistons to keep the compression ratio the same.

-Joe
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