04-15-2007, 11:59 AM
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Join Date: Jan 2005
Location: Belgium
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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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It were mainly budgetary reasons and the 400 cars they had to make and sell for homologation in GR.4 .
If there was a conversation between the head of Fiat/Lancia and Chiti and he withdraw the GT V8 from GR.4 in '77 ( I believe that was the last time it was entered in a rally by Autodelta ) why would he enter the even if not more powerfull Alfetta Turbodelta in GR.4 in '79 ?
To Vince and Gabor : thanks for the info about the brake system !
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