07-03-2007, 11:09 PM
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On the other hand, what is extremely interesting to me is Max's 198hp TS motor that he talks about on the Alfaholics site. This is a "street" and track-day motor and not a full-tilt racing motor. It runs on carburetors and pump gas which means that doing an install would be dead easy. Here in the States, that kind of option makes a lot more sense to me. If you are going to go to the trouble of importing a TS motor, why not go ahead and build it into a 198hp screamer that will also take your kids to school and not terrify the neighbors.
I'm hoping Max will tell us a little more about what he did to build that motor.
The world wants to know Max!! 
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Some people may not have the additional money to go all out with some forged internals, and a set of 45's arn't exactly cheap. What about a manifold? More dollars. Plus when you get to these power figures you loose a lot of driveability, and if your car is not in top shape to begin with, you may start thinking about the condition of your gearbox, diff, suspension, brakes... It all adds up, but im sure your all aware I do understand where your coming from though, its a lot of work and reasonable amount of money for the TS conversion so you would be expecting some significant gains over the nord.
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