[alfa] re: GTV V8

[George Graves <gmgraves@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

I'm not terribly surprised at the numbers. Larry Dickman Jr. of Alfa 
Parts Exchange owns a Montreal, and he once told me that it's 
performance wasn't much different from that of a stock GTV-6 and he 
should know since he has both. The Alfetta, is, I believe, a heavier 
car than the Montreal but who knows what rear-end ratio this GTV-V8 
has. If it has a 4.11 like the GTV-6, I would suspect better 
performance out of the hole, but if it has the 3.7X like the Milano 
Verde and some other Alfas over the years, that would surely explain 
the leisurely 0-60 times.

George Graves



>
On Wednesday, September 10, 2003, at 12:04 PM, alfa-digest wrote:

> Date: Wed, 10 Sep 2003 11:00:25 -0400
> From: Joe Elliott <jee@domain.elided>
> Subject: [alfa] re: GTV V8
>
> At 4:45 AM +0000 9/10/03, alfa-digest wrote:
> > Date: Tue, 9 Sep 2003 17:31:55 +0100
> > From: Darryl Davis <D.N.Davis@domain.elided>
> > Subject: [alfa] GTV V8
> >
> > The web pages for the new AR 8cC also point to
> >  Alfetta GTV V8
> >  http://www.carfolio.com/specifications/models/car/?car=110880
> >  Is this GTV6 with variation of Montreal engine?
> >  Did it make production?
> >
> > - -- dd
> I believe that was done by the Alfa distributor in Germany, and yes
> it's a Montreal engine.  I think they made 20 of them.  (I find it
> hard to believe that it takes 9.3s to get to 100km/h though.)
> Autodelta was going to build an Alfetta with a lightweight aluminum
> chassis and a Montreal engine bored out to 3.0L (the marine version).
> That car, the Alfetta GT 3000, never saw production.
>
> - -Joe
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