More GTO look, EFI, AMG supercharger, Supertrapps and Magnaflows by bert308

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Wow you signed up over 4 years ago and your first post is in my project thread, I feel honoured!
I made some dumb decisions in the past year, not a good idea to do some work first on another car (the Alfa) as that got out of control and then my only working car broke down, the Lancia Montecarlo something with a valve. So now I´m working hard to finish my Alfa (repaint) and then I will get back to the 308 project. The Lancia returns to hibernation like it did 8 years ago when the engine first broke down, I revived it 3 years ago with a lot of effort but only short pleasure so this time that 2.0 Fiat twin cam won´t be repaired but replaced with an Alfa 3.0 24v V6 haha (to make it a full cousin to Dino 246, Lancia Stratos and one off Alfa Sprint 6c). But not after the 308 is back on the road.
Work on the 308 will restart in a few months.

4-14-2012

That screen for the air inlet is a German market only requirement I think. The rear fenders I bought have part of the air channel under the rear windows build to it so I think that will define the inward angle to the rear side windows and everything else will follow from that.
A quick update for everyone, I won a pair of fiber rear fenders copied of an original GTO on ebay for only $699, I was the only bidder. The seller found them in an estate he was liquidating and in that estate were also moulds for many of the other panels, he already sold the moulds but brought me in contact with the company that bought them, and they will make me a complete front clip and the rear panel and spoiler upper and lower. I will only need to fabricate the rear under part myself so this will take the quality of the end result to a much higher level.

This was over 2 months ago and the builder of the parts said it was to cold and they had a snowstorm, in California! But I googled "weather in + the towns name" and it was true, however this was also a while ago and I should sent another mail.
Before I found the parts I had already decided to build a full wheelbase GTO lookalike so around Christmas I had removed all the home made panels already and made new rear A arms to get the 2450 mm wheelbase

I remade the wall between engine compartment and trunk to make room for the engine that I moved 40mm to the back by switching the spacers that the mounts have from the rear mounts to the fronts. This way the angle of the drive shafts is not too large.

And then there were lots of other things, like my Alfasud threw a piston trough the cilinder wall. I think a valve got damaged when the flywheel broke september 2011 and the engine spun to over 8000 rpm, maybe. So I had to find and prepare another motor. I found one that had been lying around for years of unkown origin, that is in there now and it works well but I´m also building an "all new" spare 8v with new oversize pistons, cams and everything. That takes time.

And while building a spare engine for my only driver, I thought it would be nice to have a complete spare car, so I took out the Lancia and took of the head to examine what was wrong with it. It was the headgasket that burned in between two cilinders. It was always running lean and I found the 40 DCNF webers had 35 mm venturis which would be too large for a standard engine so I ordered 32 mm venturis and hope that will cure the lean running.

There are also some small rust repairs on the Lancia and while at it, I got in the mood and found a set of genuine BBS RS 3 piece wheels from a 911 and made them fit on the Lancia hubs, also ordered new outer rim halves to have a set of 8.5x16 and 8x16 for 245/35 and 215/40 tires. Those will not fit well so I´ll be reworking the fender lips, they needed attention anyway. So another in between project before I´ll continue on the 308.

All this delay means I can take the 308 project to a higher quality level and instead of the reworked original Koni suspension I may be ordering Wilbers suspension from Germany, they make a high quality set for the 308 but mine will have to be customized for the longer A arms, which is not a problem for them. http://www.wilbers.de/de/carline.php?page=7
Also my A arms are all home made from mild steel and look a bit crude, more something for an old russian tractor so I also consider to have proper tubular A arms made from moly steel. Maybe I will sent mr Morales a mail about that in the future when all the dimensions are finalized as the fiber panels are fitted