>Sounds like an excelent idea but I would make the exchange as soon as
>possible or you may miss out of owning a truly reliable and fast auto.
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>the V-6 supporter
>T.C.
>SI V-6 five speed halve finished
Not wanting to escalate the current originality/updated camp skirmish, let me put in a few pence.
The alpine engine is a very robust powerplant, its is the ancilliary components that are the pieces that give us the most grief.
Getting a fresh set of carbs, with unworn throttle shafts, getting a new distributor with unworn bushes, elliminating the points on the electrical system, and replacing everything that wears out with time "like the old lucas coils with rivet on terminals".
You do all that, and you will have a 100,000 mile alpine for sure.
The rootes blocks are a very hard iron. Ask anyone whose ever had a 100,000 mile engine apart, and pushed the pistons out the block sans ridge reamer.
My car still has all lucas electrics. I even run a Lucas Sport coil, with aftermarket electronic ignition.
I have new webers to replace the worn downdraft zeniths that belong on the car.
Bewteen the carbs, and electronic ignition, 90% of the reliability griefs that I hear about on this list would be history.
As with any car/engine/component. 30 years of use, abuse and outright neglect, will result in loss of performance or outright failure.
Yes, there is a such thing as entropy.
Thats not to say you should'nt put another engine in an alpine. I'll tell you that my alpine is very fast, and getting more reliable by the day. I'll also say you'd be hard pressed to stuff more horsepower in an alpine shell for less $$$$ too.
Alpine engine components are rather inexpensive.
Jarrid