Re: alfa-digest V9 #623

[George Graves <gmgraves@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

I have a road test/article from a South African auto magazine "Car" 
that states that the car had Dellortos. "Car" says that the Kyalami had 
a top speed of 224.2 km/h (approx 140 mph). You are correct, however in 
that the engine is NOT the 75 motor as the 75 engine has a capacity of  
2959cc while the South African motor is actually a punched-out 2.5 
liter with 2453 cc. The article gives the power output at 128 Kw (ISO) 
(whatever that means) at 5800 rpm.

George Graves
'86 GTV-6 3.0S


On Monday, July 7, 2003, at 07:44 AM, alfa-digest wrote:


> Date: Mon, 07 Jul 2003 19:21:46 +1200
> From: "Alex Jenner" <alexj@domain.elided>
> Subject: Re: Alfa V6 and carbs?
>
> In alfa-digest V9 #622, George Graves wrote....
> > assembly plant in South Africa, in order to homologate a
> race car
> > designed to compete in a S.A. racing series with BMW,
> built a number
> > of GTV-6's using the 3-liter motor form the 75 (Milano).
> Called the
> > GTV-6 "Kyalami" (after the famous S.A. race track), this
> car again
> > went back to the six downdraft Dellortos.
> You couldn't really call it a 3-litre motor from the 75, as
> the 75 (at
> least the 3-litre version) hadn't been built at that stage.
> I believe
> it was the first Alfa 3-litre V6.... which might be one of
> the reason
> they built the limited production car with carbs, when a
> properly calibrated EFI wasn't yet available.
>
> I seem to recall it ran 3 x twin choke downdraft webers, not
> dellortos.
>
> Lex Jenner
> Auckland/New Zealand
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