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Old 12-16-2007, 02:40 AM
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Originally Posted by davisfamily View Post
Also, does anybody hae any information on Conrero in Turin?
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Track down a copy of Alfa Romeo Veloce - The Racing Giuliettas by Donald Hughes & Vito Witting Da Prato (Haynes Publishing Group, 1989). It has some excellent information on Conrero (and other Giulietta tuners including Facetti). Some tell-tales of Conrero engines are the presence of a copper seal rather than standard head gasket between head and block (apparently Conrero's milling of the mating surfaces was almost perfectly flat) and the 'Conrero window' in the airbox - made by cutting a large hole in the side of the airbox directly in line with the carby throats, and fixing some mesh to the opening to keep out boulders. This complied with the letter of the regulations, if not the spirit ... but maybe it met the 'do whatever it takes to go Veloce' spirit better than most mods?
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Now:
64 Giulia TI Super replica (still building after all these years...)
62 Giulia Sprint 101
Fiat 128SL (a bit dead)
Then:
1967 Giulia Super daily driver
1966 Giulia Super (part rebuilt)
1972 Berlina 2000 parts car (LSD donated to TI Super project)
1969 1750 GTV (oops, forgot about that one)
1965 GTA (OK, it was a slot car..)
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