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Edward,

I don't know what the difference is on pre-catted and catted

John

Timing. Pre-cat cams have offset lobes and produce more power.

I thought that it may be worth passing on a failure mode that I have discovered on some Alfa 33 engines. I have had two bottom end failures on standard 16v engines that I used in race cars. Both engin ...

This post seems to have generated a lot of interest, so I have listed more details of the parts below:-

Yellow Alfa 33 (ex-Paul Lund) track/race parts

Photo at: http://www.flickr.com/photos/286 ...

After racing the ex-Paul Lund 33 racer at Mallory Park a couple of weeks back, I am now breaking the car and thought that before putting the bits on eBay, someone on here may be interested:-
Quick Br ...

In general, lighter wheels will have a lighter sense to the steering wheel. You will be able to feel the lighter steering especially during parking. Think of it as follows: the suspension carries the ...

For anyone who may be interested, I have placed an ad on Pistonheads for a set of 6Jx14 Compomotives fitted with Toyo 888s.

http://www.pistonheads.com/sales/3094030.htm

SOLD

Over the past couple of years, I have had three 16v engines in various specs fitted at various times to the two cars and to be honest I cannot accurately recall which engine finished up with what powe ...

Just put this engine on eBay - not as powerful as the one Al had, but still a good one that gave me some good results.
http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=280704975016&ssPage ...

Starting go through my pile of 33 and Sud bits and found the following:-

* A virtually mint Workshop Manual supplement for the 33 S2, dated July 1986, bought from motorbooks.co.uk for £17.95. sell ...

Nice to meet you too Alan and I'm pleased that the engine has gone to a good home. I think you will find that it goes rather well! If you have any questions etc, please get in touch.
Hopefully, I'll ...

After having my 33 16v racer comprehensively written off at Mallory Park at the weekend - thanks to a well-known historic old racer who had brain fade and punted me off into the barriers at Gerrards, ...

Sorry, I can't really help you on that one. I have always used either a proprietry adjustable brake proportioning valve (Demon Tweeks- type thing) or a modified BL Mini brake valve (as sometimes seen ...

Interesting! However, surely the whole point of auto-adjusters is that you shouldn't need to adjust them! I did all the stuff you described about making them work in your hand - after making sure that ...

In my experience, these adjusters only actually auto-adjust in theory! Last year I discovered that both my Alfa 33 racers had adjusters with one of the stupid little clippy bits missing. This seemed t ...

Here's an idea. I race a 16v Alfa 33 on the mandated Toyo R888 tyres. After my 14" tyres wore out, I found that the cheapest 888 tyre was a 195/50.15 as used byour sister championship PBMW. I the ...

Ade,
Not sure why checking at max lift would eradicate any hydraulic issues. i.e. if the tappet isn’t fully primed, it isn’t fully primed – so will still give a false reading won’t it?
Checking af ...

Not sure I can help on this one Ade, other than suggest that the Greek guy is wrong! The Piper Fast Road cams (reprofiled) have a duration of 260deg and I don't reckon Piper reduce the duration when r ...

I have for sale a Bosch Motronic ML4-1 ECU with a modified chip fitted by Adie Hawkins of AHM. I recently removed the Bosch system from my black Alfa 33 16v race car as I am now running an OMEX 500 sy ...

And a crappy old shed at that.
On the basis of it's loony price, if I stuck an Autodelta sticker on the side of my 33 racer, it would be worth £50K!

You've just reminded me of another tweek I did - as suggested by the lads at Bianco. They reckoned that under hard cornering the oil could shoot back up head drain pipe. I welded a half moon restricte ...

I saw the original post sometime back and it puzzled me somewhat!

Having raced both Suds and 33s in recent years, I found the the references to oversteer a bit surprising to say the least. A fundam ...

Any openings in the surge tray should have a lip sticking down of at least 25mm to prevent oil migrating along the underside of the tray and out the hole under hard cornering.
Regards Eddie

This i ...

Yeah, they're mine - and they are OK, just need a bit of a clean up.

I bought them last year to run on my Alfa 33 16v racer - intending to fit the now mandated Toyo 888s control tyres, until I foun ...

I'm pretty sure that I've got a newish standard 16v manifold - up at a farm I use to store stuff. I'll try to get there in the next few days and if it's there, you can have it for nowt (as they say up ...

Please assume loony Westcuntree local yokel accent when reading this-

"well, wot it is me luvvers, iz that down ere in deepest Westshiteland, we only got as far as A in the Alfabet - so we don ...