Thread: Raduno 6C2500/6C2300 Antwerp (Belgium)
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Old 06-05-2007, 09:08 AM
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You're right, Stu. The engine also features three carbs, as can be seen from the pics, and has sleeves to downsize the bore and fit into the 3-litre limit, as Mr Lo Presto told me Satursday. That leads him and Simon to believe that this engine had been prepared for the 1941 Mille Miglia and design it as S10SS. However, factory drawings exist that show a double camshaft S10SS project, probably never completed, and replaced with the "easy way". No engine plate on it. Simon's article will appear in the next issue of Auto Italia (late June?) and probably in the July or October issue of Het Klaverblaadje.
I find this period of Alfa history very interesting, and there isn't all that much that has ever been published on it. I find it very interesting the motor was put into a chassis labeled as a 6c2300B lungo rather than a 6c2500. Of course, if this "conversion" was done privately rather than by Alfa, it is certainly understandable.

Perhaps, as I have thought for some time, there were not as many 6c2300Bs built as Fusi states, and some 6c2500s were really nothing more than 6c2300Bs with the chassis never numbered and stamped later, or with the chassis renumbered.

I may be mistaken, but I thought the designation for the single camshaft per cylinder head S10 was S10S, and for the twin camshaft per cylinder head version (which may have never actually been built) S10SS.
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