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I thought I would share this story with others who can laugh with me on this one. I took my Spider up to the Caffeine and Octane car show at Perimeter Mall in Atlanta this weekend. Did fine for the hour drive up to the mall, no issues, beautiful morning chasing the sunrise on the interstate...

Hi AlfaBB, I finally took the jump and bought a 1991 164S 5 speed. 121k miles, only 20 miles a week put on it the last 15 years. I drove it 2 hours home in bad holiday weekended SoCal traffic, and came up with a few questions for you knowledgeable alfa veterans. 1. Powered up huge hills at...

So I found out why my Spider has been intermittently blowing smoke while I drive. It looks like this "Catch-can" that is connected to the cam cover and intake is allowing oil into the throttle body closest to the front of the vehicle. What is this can? PCV? I replaced all the lines today...

I checked compression - cylinders 1&3 are at 60 psi and cylinders 2&4 are at 150. When the car is running, it blows smoke out of the hose connected to the outlet on the valve cover beside the oil cap. This same outlet also has another hose connected to it, I guess for fuel... Rings? Valves...