1977 Alfa Giulia - chapter closed.

No more scenery pictures for now I'm afraid, but rather winter car-fiddling plans!

I already have bought quite a few parts for the slight top-end rebuild (valve stem seals and valve grinding, O-rings, head gasket, etc), but I still have a few things left to acquire (chain tensioner, those long head bolts I can't remember the actual name of, etc).
Plans also include a little suspension rebuild, with everything I can think of renewed under there. It'll also give me a good opportunity to do some rust-proofing, repainting suspension parts, and possibly look for hidden rust. I wanted yellow Koni dampers but thought them to be too expensive, turns out they're only €60 from the manufacturer! Good news.
Also, I want polyurethane bushes, but I don't want the car to become uncomfortable either; does anyone know what should be polybushed and what should remain soft rubber? I was thinking of poly-ing the chassis side and leaving the axle side in rubber, but any advice is welcome

Lastly, I should be soon buying these wheels for €180 delivered:


The Alfa steelies don't hold air to well with tubeless tyres, and the BWA wheels are nowhere near being on the car so I obviously needed alternate plans! Heehee

I hope the last few Cortina bits I'll put up for sale this weekend will sell for good money, because they'll be funding all this stuff...

Still posting on my own, but I don't really mind

www.leboncoin.fr/voitures/543041430.htm?ca=5_s





Someone buys it! It's only a 1300 and without the nice Weber carbs but you English people could sort this out in no time! The ad says it's been vandalised, apparently a longtime ago (which paradoxically has saved it, since it was put in a garage instead of rusting away on the roads), and the body is said to be in a bad state but who knows. It's complete, all the parts are there, three of the doors have been changed, and the paperwork is as it should be apparently.

Haha good then, I do have a question to ask but then it's getting silly to post four times in a row
Well perhaps it'll raise some interest! Here it goes: Dolly Sprint front spoiler or not?

Actually I think that the wheels could make the ride less harsh because they reduce unsprung weight (the seller has weighted them, 28kg for all four rims)... But yes you're right the front spoiler isn't top priority anyways There are quite a lot of Giulia racers but none of them seems to have one, I'm kinda wondering why...


(another one for the black steels thread)




Perhaps it's because the sump is right behind it, and wouldn't get enough air to cool it? Aerodynamically I'm pretty sure it would be a good thing.

As for bushes, well, it's cheaper not to put poly bushes everywhere also I've been looking at Alfaholics stuff but they don't seem to do a complete kit and what they sell is usually expensive. I think it might be best to buy them directly from Superflex or whomever.

I cant see air flow being a huge issue, could always add a couple of ducts? I suspect it's much more likely that because they didn't fit them to the race cars in the 60s/70s that most people want their cars to look period correct.

Google says the splitter on the coupe can be hugely awesome..... I think photoshop is required once you've got it sat on the suspension with the wheels.

I know what you mean about not following the usual crowd and direction for these old italian cars And all this splitter talk is making me wonder how one would sit on the Fulvia.....

I can probably sort you out a rough potatochop when the time comes

While the splitter does indeed look terrible on the above, the wheels work surprisingly well. I reckon that red racing one posted further up did the splitter better but I'm still not sold on the idea. I think it's one of those things that has to be very right to work otherwise it's not worth doing... what about a scaled down version of a Rover SD1 deep chin spoiler?

I've been kindly given an old car radio.











I love it! It's been a hassle to fit (mainly because I'm bad at this), but it works.

Well, at least the RH speaker works, not the LH. It's dead, it would seem (swapping them gives the same result). The previous radio used other speaker which were on the parcel shelf. They were ugly, not original to the car, and the sound was not impressive. I'm glad I changed it, especially since it was free!

As for the other stuff I want to do to the car, it's on pause at the moment. I'm soon starting a 9-month training course to become a metal fabricator/welder, mostly thanks to RetroRides (I'm not joking!), the problem is I don't know exactly when or where.

I should have the new wheels this week, I can't wait!

You not gonna give the poor old girl a bath? I was expecting a bunch of 'now clean and shiny' pictures at the bottom of that post

Radio looks good, but to be honest I was more struck with how awesome the blue centres of the dials are! Looks really classy, and without seeing it I wouldn't have believed anyone who say blue dials would look good in a car like this.