Re: Euro 105 air cannister

[Highwoodalfa@xxxxxxx]

I'll leave the details to the Alfa historians (John H?) but it's definitely 
not quite this simple.  I think the long-nosed air filter housing was used 
whenver it would physically fit, but AFAIK no 4-headlamp GTVs had them because the 
inner headlamp got in the way, and no RHD cars with cooling system expansion 
tank had them, because that was where they put the expansion tank.  Both long- 
and short-nosed housings had a summer and winter setting.  

Chris Sweetapple
Highwood Motor Company
Swansea, U.K.
www.highwoodalfa.com


In a message dated 24/07/2003 04:26:02 GMT Daylight Time, 
owner-alfa-digest@domain.elided writes:


> >I was poking around on my 69 Spider Jr. and noticed
> >that there are 2 settings for the stock carb air cannister. 
> >The "E" position opens a vent that points to the engine and 
> >the "I" closes that and opens to a tube that points down. At 
> >first I assumed that the E was for summer operation and the "I" 
> >was for winter with a tube (missing) that picked up engine
> >heat from somewhere else in the engine bay. But now I'm 
> >thinking that I may have it backwards and that the missing 
> >tubing might provide cold air from the behind the grill. 
> 
> The first guess was right.  The E is for summer ("estate") and the I is for 
> winter ("inverno").  There should be a corrugated plastic hose between the 
> air box and a fitting on the block.  
> 
> For what it's worth, this particular style of air box seems to have been 
> used only in 1968 and '69.  Later carbed 105s had an air box with an elongated 
> snorkel pointing toward the grill, similar to the one used on Alfettas.
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