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Hi all,
I wanted to introduce myself (and my Alfa) to the board as I am a relatively new member to Alfabb.
I had always heard about Alfa's from my Dad growing up, he had two late 70's spiders, a GTV and a GTV6 in his early adult life in Toronto, but sold them when he became a family man. in early 2013 my Dad was diagnosed with stage 4 melanoma and I said to him, ok now we buy you an Alfa. So we did in late June of 2013 off of eBay, a beautiful 1986 Spider Veloce with 40,000 mi and original paint. That summer he drove it as much as possible and we tinkered on it together to the best of our ability. Sadly in October 2013 he died, but now the Alfa torch has been passed on to me, and at 24 I am probably one of the youngest Alfa owners/members of this community. Importing the car to Canada from the Buffalo area was really easy, but the car died in Oakville and needed a lot of repairs to get it road ready again (new tires, new fuel filters, pump, donut bearing, seals, etc etc). I have also gotten the top replaced recently, new muffler, door gaskets, etc etc etc again!
I have gotten quite a few pointers from this board already (thanks!) however I have a few questions to ask (i'll also post some 'new member photos', I know everyone likes photos!):
1) The tape player in the radio is 'skipping' every 2 seconds or so while the song is playing, which is really annoying! Any ideas on how to fix this?
2) The pininfarina badges on the sides of the car are starting to peel up at the sides and I am worried they are going to fall off. Would contact cement/black adhesive goop work to keep these in place and flatten them out?
3) The exhaust manifold looks like crap. They don't have any holes I can see, but are rusty looking. I want to pull it out and paint it with header paint and then reinstall it. Is this difficult? Any tricks to it? I have ordered some new exhaust gaskets from Centreline to replace the ones at the head and at the next section of exhaust.
4) Should I be spraying rust proofing oil underneath the car? It is in a garage for the winter, which is also lives in unless I'm driving it, which is usually in nice weather.
I'm currently away at school so that is all the pictures I have for now, thanks in advance for any help!
I wanted to introduce myself (and my Alfa) to the board as I am a relatively new member to Alfabb.
I had always heard about Alfa's from my Dad growing up, he had two late 70's spiders, a GTV and a GTV6 in his early adult life in Toronto, but sold them when he became a family man. in early 2013 my Dad was diagnosed with stage 4 melanoma and I said to him, ok now we buy you an Alfa. So we did in late June of 2013 off of eBay, a beautiful 1986 Spider Veloce with 40,000 mi and original paint. That summer he drove it as much as possible and we tinkered on it together to the best of our ability. Sadly in October 2013 he died, but now the Alfa torch has been passed on to me, and at 24 I am probably one of the youngest Alfa owners/members of this community. Importing the car to Canada from the Buffalo area was really easy, but the car died in Oakville and needed a lot of repairs to get it road ready again (new tires, new fuel filters, pump, donut bearing, seals, etc etc). I have also gotten the top replaced recently, new muffler, door gaskets, etc etc etc again!
I have gotten quite a few pointers from this board already (thanks!) however I have a few questions to ask (i'll also post some 'new member photos', I know everyone likes photos!):
1) The tape player in the radio is 'skipping' every 2 seconds or so while the song is playing, which is really annoying! Any ideas on how to fix this?
2) The pininfarina badges on the sides of the car are starting to peel up at the sides and I am worried they are going to fall off. Would contact cement/black adhesive goop work to keep these in place and flatten them out?
3) The exhaust manifold looks like crap. They don't have any holes I can see, but are rusty looking. I want to pull it out and paint it with header paint and then reinstall it. Is this difficult? Any tricks to it? I have ordered some new exhaust gaskets from Centreline to replace the ones at the head and at the next section of exhaust.
4) Should I be spraying rust proofing oil underneath the car? It is in a garage for the winter, which is also lives in unless I'm driving it, which is usually in nice weather.
I'm currently away at school so that is all the pictures I have for now, thanks in advance for any help!
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