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Goefd:

I had a very interesting revelation (?) with respect to my 74 GTV. My Alfetta Twin Spark was in the shop for about 2 weeks while the body shop cut a little off my hood to make it fit and I drove the GTV with Spica and Norman head and Ingram cams, for the entire time. I have decided to leave the GTV with the Nord engine and Spica injection alone.

My first thoughts were to put the TS in the Alfetta and later build a TS with a 155 TS head and fully mappable injection and put that in the Alfetta. Then rebuild the 75 TS and get that into the GTV. As time went on and I prepared my first TS, I became enamored with the look of the Nord and decided that the original look should be kept on the 74 GTV. I made a mental cutoff date of 1974. Previous cars should not get a TS and later cars could.

My next thought was to do a megasquirt conversion of the Spica system to retain the Nord engine look and gain some power/drivability, etc. Well, since the TS has quite different characteristics to the Nord, and driving the Nord again after driving the TS exclusively for several months, the characteristics of the Nord in my very light GTV are too nice to give up. The GTV stays the way it is and the Alfetta gets all the major mods.

This doesn't mean I dislike the TS. After getting it back from the shop, I have gotten more used to it and am enjoying it more and more. All things said about them are true and I don't say anything the contrary. It's just that I consider the Alfetta to be a "modern" car and subject to whatevery modern technology I can throw at it. I still plan to get a 155 TS head (I'm very active on the 155/75 thread), but will probably prepare everything for dropping it onto the 75 block already in my Alfetta someday.

I have the liberty of having two Alfas with which to keep one stock and the other with incredible mods and you don't. So I can't really tell you what to do with your only Alfa. If you have thoughts of originality, consider a second car, maybe one that isn't as original as yours. Maybe a ratty one that you can rebuild with a TS.

With respect to this thread, I would do it again, but not in a 1974 model year or before. I'd like to do it in another Alfetta, or perhaps a late GTV6 to get all the improvments of the rest of the car too.