04-15-2007, 06:11 AM
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Location: AUSTRALIA
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Originally Posted by GTV6SA
when The Alfetta GTV8 " la bomba" rally car was developed by Autodelta, it was deemed to fast and the head of Fiat/Lancia rally asked Chiti to withdraw the car fearing it would would "dominate rallying as it was faster then the Lancia stratos which dominated at the time , they alos feared that the car was too powerful as happened during the later Group B era. The engne was not based on a Montreal engine but was a version of the tipo 33 with a flat plane crank running up to 10,000 rpm
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I would think that the usefullness of a 10,000 rpm rally engine would be rather dubious, even if it did have a truckload of horsepower. I also reckon that the transaxle would be the safety-valve against it "dominating" rallying!
Somehow I don't think Chiti would have just brushed aside certain victory.....
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