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Old 06-08-2007, 09:01 AM
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Originally Posted by AlfistiSA View Post
It's a stock 1600 motor, after 1972 Alfa started using letters and numbers in their sequencing [...]
I don't know if it's related, but some time during 1972, Alfa introduced an "emissions reduced" Montreal engine in a.o. Germany, and added an S to those engine numbers. It's tempting to think Alfa codified engine attributes into the numbers, but I have no documentation to support that.

My Montreal (built in '72) engine is AR00564*S0527*, whereas earlier engines lacks the 'S' and are numbered AR00564*NNNN*.
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