Friday, February 18, 2022

The Art of Speed

 


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  1. Looks fast standing still, which for that particular brand, is a good thing....

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    1. I've heard that. I drove them back in the 60's. Mostly, they never let me down but always needed something done. Well, except for the electric fuel pump in the '69 and '71. Every 20,000 miles they would fill up with dust from the brushes and you'd limp home, take it out, dump the dust and go another 20k. I'd keep a spare on hand. I once had one "reconditioned". Turned out they'd just painted it.

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    2. P.S. This is why we had no respect for Porche owners. They knew how to wash and wax their cars but the dealer had to change the oil. Alfa owners did everything themselves and were usually dirty.

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  2. That driveway would be tuff on the bare dawgz.

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    1. Harden the ol' Dawgz. Start with the polished pebbles, then move up to legos.

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  3. I suspect that might be rather loud inside, with that large engine right behind the driver, and maybe a bit breezy with those eight cylinders sucking in large volumes of combustion air.

    Sure is pretty though.

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  4. I've never understood the idea of putting the engine in the back seat inside the passenger compartment.

    It's a horse-riding-inside-the-carriage level of stupid I just can't even.

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    1. Aesop, race car or very fast road car needs to have the vehicle mass centralized as much as possible. This makes angular rotation of the chassis easier to execute. For example see C7 and C8 Corvettes. C8 is faster (lap times) than C7 with less horsepower.

      Spin Drift
      Mechanical Engineer of some repute

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  5. This is a late in the series Alfa 33, and if you want to see this 2liter super car run, check out https://youtu.be/0JXJr-jtit8

    At 1:20 and 1:30 into the video you can clearly see the separating divider between the engine and passenger compartments, as truly it would be awful without some division.




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