tim vb-o'brien wrote:
> Lauri Lehtinen wrote:
> > >BTW - Anyone think of doing a 9000Turbo conversion into an Alpine (or a
> > >Tiger LOL) using an Alfa Tranny? Hmmmmm......
> > >
> > >tim
> >
> > Very interesting concept indeed!
> > Finland (and whole Scandinavia) is full of used and crashed turbo Saabs!
> > (They were put together at the Uusikaupunki plant, which is nowadays
> > producing Porsche Boxters.)
> > But that Alfa tranny I must seek from Italy, maybe...
> > What type of Alfa you mean?
> >
> > Larry, Helsinki
>
> Lauri,
> The Alfa I had in mind was the GTV6. It occurs to me though that the
> transmission in that one is in the rear. I thought that Alfa had done a
> comparable auto with the same block as the Saab, but that might have
> been a Volvo/Alfa/Renault combination I'm thinking of. To me, the
> hardest part is the bell housing. I think to get really crazy, hook it
> up to one of those bulletproof toyota transmisions. Just dreamin' out
> here on the west coast.
The Saab 9000 and Alfa 164 (and Fiat Croma and Lancia Thema) are closely related,
at least in terms of their bodyshells. I don't know whether they share any
engine/drivetrain components.
Russell "Jeepless" Maddock
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