O-oh! Now what...!? Look what showed up last week!
The Alfa-gods and I concur that the Italians short-changed us when they decided not to offer a normally-aspirated (and perhaps larger displacement) V6 engine option in the new Giulia range! Something in the middle perhaps - between the base 2.0 litre turbo options and the amazing twin turbo V6 of the Quadrifoglio - would have been nice. All I asked for was even just a 6 / 7-speed manual, but no...
Well, as punishment for their transgressions, I have decided to build it. (If it pleases the Alfa-gods.) The turbos are off and so are the dual intake manifolds, the two drive-by-wire throttle-bodies and the dual water-to-air inter-coolers! We're going with 6 head-direct ITBs (individual throttle-bodies with nice tall stacks and bell-mouth trumpets) and a nice set of custom TIG-welded "bundle-of-snakes" exhaust headers in stainless!
The Alfa-gods and I concur that the Italians short-changed us when they decided not to offer a normally-aspirated (and perhaps larger displacement) V6 engine option in the new Giulia range! Something in the middle perhaps - between the base 2.0 litre turbo options and the amazing twin turbo V6 of the Quadrifoglio - would have been nice. All I asked for was even just a 6 / 7-speed manual, but no...
Well, as punishment for their transgressions, I have decided to build it. (If it pleases the Alfa-gods.) The turbos are off and so are the dual intake manifolds, the two drive-by-wire throttle-bodies and the dual water-to-air inter-coolers! We're going with 6 head-direct ITBs (individual throttle-bodies with nice tall stacks and bell-mouth trumpets) and a nice set of custom TIG-welded "bundle-of-snakes" exhaust headers in stainless!