Hey Gang,
Rex Funk wrote (among other very cogent things):
< So what's my prescription? First, drive the car a while with a good
stock engine. I can attest that a stock Alpine is fast enough to get
you into all the trouble that you can handle with the radar cops. Be
very sure you want to do an engine swap rather than modify the Alpine
engine. Jarrid has put the whole thing in perspective in a previous
thread: a 115 to 120 hp. >
I must agree with Rex's line of reasoning. Let's face it, if anyone
really wants a Ford V6 in a 'Pine they can pretty easily pick up a
conversion project that somebody else started and gave up on.
Yes, I know that there are some nicely done, reasonably quick V6 'Pines
around, but to me it just another way to take a real Alpine out of the
lineup, just like making a phoney Tiger by sticking a 302 in a nice
Alpine. Still, the car owner is the person who should rightfully decide
whether or not to start cuttin' and hackin'.
Sure, if a guy has the bucks, a Lotus twin-cam would make a 'Pine hum
right along but...
I think a much more productive effort would be to examine the ways to
make the stock Alpine a "bolt-on beast" if somebody is really looking
for more power. If this was a previous thread perhaps it was some time
ago as I sure don't recall it (could also be my memory is screwing up
again... shrapnel, donchknow?). So what would be the fully reversible,
no sheet metal to cut, changes to boost the stock unit up to a "115 to
120 hp" completely streetable (i.e., fully maintainable) mill?
Headers? Carbs? Cam? What sort of bucks are we talking and how available
are the bits?
Any thoughts?
--Colin Cobb
'65 Tiger MKI (nearly stock) and '67 Alpine SV (very stock)
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