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Old 09-23-2007, 03:45 PM
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I was interested in how much these parts sold for but I missed the end of the auction.
Anyone know what the final prices were for the the heads, distributors and sump pans were?
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Old 09-23-2007, 05:29 PM
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Final bidding prices on gta parts.
Original head went for £2.510 euros/£1.748.36uk pounds
re-originals/afra head £3.700 euros/£2.577.26uk pounds
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Old 09-23-2007, 06:33 PM
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Who else has found the bidding on these items extremely 'interesting'?

Why would 'Bieter 3' bid against themselves?

Why would 'Bieter 6' bid against themselves?

Well, maybe the answers to my questions will surface sooner or later.

Will I be surprised? Maybe not, as I have had dealings with certain Alfa Dealers in England and they have not been honest in my opinion. On 'challenging' them about various anomalies one would be told that 'we run a business' or 'my word is my bond is no longer practiced in England'. Reality?

Would or could an Austrian Alfa dealer be any different?
The "bidding against themselves" is a function of the Ebay system. If you place a bid, and are the high bidder, and then decide to increase your bid to guard your position as high bidder it shows you as having bid against yourself (it doesn't jack the price up though).
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Old 09-24-2007, 12:14 PM
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Dear all,

Thanks for your tolerance.

That was my first experience bidding on e-bay. Very interesting.

I only recorded the following numbers:320158056263; 320158056659; 320158056230; 320158056019.

Can anybody supply me with the other item numbers so I can see what prices they obtained?
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Old 09-24-2007, 01:15 PM
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320158056637 gta cambox
320158056187 Upper oilpan
320158056107 Lower oilpan
320158056062 GTA Dizzy cap
320158055977 Upper dizzy part
320158055913 Lower dizzy Part
320158055858 GTA Front cover
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Old 09-25-2007, 04:14 AM
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20070914-23 Ebay.at (A), GTA parts for sale: cylinderhead, front height 109.65 mm, channels and valve seats reworked, enlarged inlet channels, valve guides without clearance, good condition without corrosion EUR 2510, GTA/GTAJ cylinderhead with intake manifold, front height 110.45 mm, channels and valve seats reworked, enlarged inlet channels, intake manifold suited to cylinderhead, valve guides without clearance, good condition without corrosion EUR 3700, front cover with guid for oildip-stick and bolts for distributor support EUR 211, distributor lower support part EUR 411, distributor Marelli S119A T5 with new bearing and breakerpoints, distance preset, red coloured assembly marks EUR 1324, distributor arm with a small piece glued in best working order, red point assembling marking visible EUR 81, distributor cap in good shape with no corrosion EUR 152, lower magnesium oilpan with 6 fins and no damages EUR 955, upper magnesium oilpan with no damages EUR 885, oilpump with long suction pickup used with no tolerance EUR 371, oilpump with short suction pickup used with no tolerance EUR 302, front spur rear with correct marking 29° BTC EUR 62, intake rubbers 45 mm used with no cracks EUR 121, inlet valves 45 mm new EUR 181, exhaust valves 41 mm sodium filled new EUR 211, valve guides 14.03 mm outside and 8.5 mm inside new EUR 91, 4 valve springs inner and outer with retaining caps and clips EUR 23.50 (2x), cylinderhead cover magnesium with no cracks EUR 1002, sliding block bracket EUR 111.

It seems that not only the cars have doubled its prices in the last three years.

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Old 10-04-2007, 12:48 AM
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Dear Martinue,

Well I bought an item on this auction (my first experience on ebay) but have only had one e-mail to confirm my address and nothing else in nearly two weeks. I am still waiting for the total owing as shipping cost was not known. I have sent two additional e-mails to the seller but no reply. My friends buy items on e-bay and say they are delivered quickly i.e. a day or two for the UK and a week from Europe.

Is this normal? Any experiences with these sellers would be welcome.
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Old 10-04-2007, 10:23 AM
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Dear south africa,

I am the seller oft he parts, and I will excuse for the time You have waiting for. I think you should have recived all the needed information now for the next steps.
To get the best and cheapest shipping rates costs me a lot of time, in case that the parts would go "all over the world". (australia, america, UK, Italy, netherlands, south africa etc.)
As an example I can say that for one part which will go to Australia we had a range from 250 to over 500 EUR for the same service (shipping and insurance)from different providers.

best regards from austria

Manfred Zahn
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Old 10-04-2007, 02:02 PM
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Wink head height

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112mm must be the the correct height when they came out of the factory. From the several heads i have, two are 110,8mm, one is 111,00mm and one is
almost 112,00 mm. And those heads are used ones ( the best are from low milage Stradale cars) and there was definatly no material welded on those heads. Everything under 109,00 mm should realy be considerd as not very usefull - what do you think? 106,00mm to 107,00mm sounds absolutly crasy, even with custom made pistons. Whats then left from the valve seats?

Alfina
i´m working on GTA-engines for more than 27 years, and the head height of racing-engines in former days was from 110.8mm to 110.2 mm. More milling makes of course a higher compression-ratio, but you are very right in your opinion concerning the seats. There is not enough material in head casting near to the milled head surface, so the seats became leak by the heat going in the thin surface. Autodelta so milled the engine-block to get more CR,so they did with the liners, corresponding to block-milling.Today the piston dome design is much more effective for flame travel, so beware of milling your good heads.
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Old 10-05-2007, 11:46 AM
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Dear all,

Do any of the BB members have the information for head height on the GTAm head? I think they should be 130mm but more information would be useful.
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