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Battery light dimming is not normal . It indicates a very suspect battery or a major resistence somewhere. I would suggest using jumper leads from +tive to starter and _tive to a good connection on th ...

The pop on overun seems to be quite characteristic of the Alfa boxer motor but I've noticed that on miy s2 that it is much more obvious when my idle jets are partially blocked, suggesting that there ...

I've had starting probs for ages with the motor turning over too slow if the battery was less than full charge. I buggered around with all sorts of things and in the end, in desperation, I ripped the ...

Iron Maiden? you've lost me there Ben. Might go to the Supercar show at the Skytower. Love to see the new A1 GP car and particularly the McLaren F1. And the Enzo and 430 Scuderia.
Regards Eddie

Hi Ben, what day are you going? I'm down for Sunday 15th. Everybody I know that's into cars seem to be going.
Regards Eddie

As we in the Antipodies have the honour of being the first to see the sun and, of course, the New Year in, let me wish all Alfisti worldwide a HAPPY NEW YEAR!!!!!
May your 33 shine like a jewel
May ...

Hi all, forgot to mention that daughter gave me tickets for Top Gear downunder for my birthday so after feb 16th I'll be able to tell you whether Clarkson is a drone or not.
Regards Eddie

Really pissed off, just did a long post about a friends Daytona and all of a sudden it dumped. Bloody computers. Anyway my pick for a favourite supercar is a Gallardo. Try telling Jackie Ickz (not sur ...

They sound like the bloody Gestapo! What's Blighty coming to?
This is support from Downunder.
Regards Eddie

Hi Keith, the 257mm discs are from the 146 16v I believe. Elsewhere on this topic the 284s were listed as 146 TS as well as the Q4. The bolt spacing on the 4pots is much further apart than the 33s sp ...

Hi all,just a note to let you know I'm in the process of fitting JFZ ( read Willwood Dynalite) 4pot alloy calipers with 257 dia rotors. Will let you know how they perform. I wanted the 284dia rotors b ...

Does the 16v sump differ much in configeration from the 8v? The 8v sump has quite a large part of the surge tray cut out to allow easier fitting around the pickup. Unnecessarily so in my opinion and I ...

Just acquired some JFZ (read Willwood Dynalite) 4 pot alloy calipers for the front of my ser2 and hope to mate them with 284mm rotors from 146 twinspark. Will keep you all updated as to results. I wil ...

Hi Than, sympathies. What a succinct description of what must have seemed an endless frustration. I can only admire your self control,were it me I think the Gods on Olympus would have had red faces an ...

Hi guys, I've mentioned it on another thread but a good friend of mine from NZ is running his F5000 ( a Mcrae GM1) at a classic or historic meeting at Brands on the 28/29 of this month. The next weeke ...

Damn I waste a lot of time watching Oggies avatar. That certainly is one smart 33, I hope mine looks half as good when it finally gets its' Veloce kit. Maybe this year.
Regards Eddie

Adendum to my above post, the Mcrae will be running at Zolder not Zandvoort.
Regards Eddie

That road tyre doesn't look too bad to me, I.ve seen them with all the edges of the tread blocks rolled when used on the track. The only recent experience I've had with slicks is on two single seaters ...

Just to really make your day, a similar noise on one of my series 1s turned out to be that some clever clogs, be it at the factory or subsequent, had on two pistons fitted the gudgeon circlips both on ...

Thanks for that Iain. Discs are vented but I'm not sure what breed the calipers are. I will check. This I'm looking at as an interim measure until I upgrade to bigger rotors and hopefully 4pots.
Rega ...

Hi guys, just a quick question, does anyone know if the S2and S3 front calipers are the same? Chap here in NZ selling some performance pads at a good price but only lists them as '90 onwards, 8v, 16v ...

With the four bolt struts the top mount bolt spacing is eccentric so that they will only fit one way. Two of the studs have a slightly closer spacing. The struts fit with two studs basically in line w ...

Seems they don't like seatbelts in Saudi.
regards Eddie

Hi Kieth, not a lot of room for the missus there buddy.
Regards Eddie

The compessable foam inside is what absorbs decellerative G forces so that the brain in its' fluid doesn't smack up against the skull. Therefor if one doesn't want to risk a lobotomy the inner condi ...