[Max Banks]

Hi Guys,

Dominic has an early generation Twin Spark, Abarth has a second generation, just like I used to run in my own car for the last 2 years. The figures are very real, the beauty of the twinspark head design is that it promotes power at lower revs, unlike a Nord that requires lots of revs, our very special cam design promotes this characteristic, as does our stainless exhaust system which produces 15BHP more than the CSC Italian mild steel system at 4500 RPM. The 3-D mapped ignition that I and Abarth run is soon to be fitted to Dominic's car and will transform driveability, that system is the key to making an engine with such an 'interesting' cam have perfect driveability, it allows total flexibility in the ignition map to allow smooth running at all loads and revs. Our latest generation engine is just completed with more extreme cams, different valves and slightly bigger bore, power is superb and its encouraging we have pulled the whole gragh up, rather than just extend it longer and thus more revs, we have the same power as the old engine at 1,000rpm less! Lower revs mean less wear, no necessity for forged rods etc. so the engines are more 'realistic' for all uses. This thing pulls from 1,200 revs right through to 7,500 - literally is is amazing.... can't wait to drive it! Attached is the graph so you can see. The little flat spot is still there, so characteristic of an Alfa engine, but in reality you never feel it when you drive because it only occurs for so such a short rev time at relatively low revs.