RS9

It was mint, sold 4 years later for more than I paid for it.

RS9

<center><img src="http://www.sportscarmarket.com/img/profiles/635/20_3.JPG"></center><p>
<ul><li><a href="http://www.sportscarmarket.com/profiles/2005/February/Alfa%20Romeo/index.html">http://www.sportscarmarket.com/profiles/2005/February/Alfa%20Romeo/index.html</a</li></ul>

steveracer

Zagato cars were really nasty, Milano had a bent trunk from the factory,come on...Italian design went through a pretty poor period in the 90's, maybe Pininfarina was saved, but all their cars looked familiar and similar.

I would rather have a Berlina!

April

but in reality are not. Not great design by any stretch, but the early and mid '80s weren't noted for good design. Having studied the SZ in person a few times, it's great in the brutal fashion of Zagato at the time (remember the Aston Zagato?). I originally hated it, and have come to change my view.

However, the centralized window switches (front windows controlled from sunroof console, and rears from rear of center front armrest) in the Milano were inspired and meant both front people could control all the windows, and people on either side of the rear could control the rears. Fewest number of switches, and all in a central location which means minimal wiring, little chance of fluid or rain in the switches, and no loss of connections via repeated door slamming.

We have an old Giulia stashed away. A rough example. Some day we'll try to stuff a VR6 in there;-)

RS9

<center><img src="http://www.europeancarweb.com/features/0111_06zoom+alfa_romeo_75+front_side_view.jpg"></center><p>Here is a great piece on the Milano Verde from European Car mag..<ul><li><a href="http://www.europeancarweb.com/features/0111ec_3_alfa_romeo/">http://www.europeancarweb.com/features/0111ec_3_alfa_romeo/</a</li></ul>

April

was more like Dolphin or Daytona. Maybe even the Volcano Mica, which looked like hematite.

M4rkN

judging by your response.

stock exhaust tone of 2.0t with dsg is pretty sweet. so sweet that it is probley the only car that i will leave the stock exhaust on.

s4 had turbo back
tt had catback
evo had turbo back
a3 will be stock

April

Check out the sounds at the end of <a href="http://homepage.mac.com/nizam/.Movies/carsounds-medium.mov">"this"</a> short video:<ul><li><a href="http://homepage.mac.com/verdegrrl/.Movies/Highway1.mov">You mean this thrumming? Not bad for a 4 banger.</a></li></ul>

April

No TV after work for me! Off to the garage to lay on the creeper night after night. Fell asleep there a few times Got burned by the trouble light a few times Skinned knuckles and plenty of inhaled WD40 - one whiff and I feel sickly now;-)

Stripped down to bare shell, seam welded everthing that could be reached without breaking factory welds, welded rear doors shut, welded in rear half cage. Stripped out the interior except for the seats and VDO gauges. Plexi side and rear windows with velcro straps to hold them up or let them down. Painted the whole thing flat black.

The suspension was removed and rose joints replaced all the usual joints. Noisy and requiring regular greasing, but no extra play while retaining adjustability. At the time, Shankle was the only game in town for sway bars and springs, so that is what I used - lowering the car of course.

Brembo was the only game in town for brake upgrades, and in the meantime I ran carbon kevlar pads in the basic Brembos that came with the car. It was early in that type of pad development, so these suckers would take a few hard stops to warm them up so they would work at all! Howled like banshees and caused a few heart attacks

The transaxle was pulled and sent out for higher ratio limited slip. At the time, there wasn't much in the way of clutch upgrades, so I had to be careful about launches. A good thing as you know, because the driveshaft uses rubber donuts instead of u-joints. Easy to blow them! There are solutions for that now.

Pulled the motor and had the internals blueprinted. Low compression pistons, metal sandwich head gasket, and higher flow injectors specified. Had a machine shop build the brackets and intake adaptors for an Eaton supercharger (out went the a/c to make room). Ran about 5psi. Metal radiator, 100 amp alternator, power steering cooler, etc. Was planning to add water injection and intercooler when I eventually sold it. It really needed a stand alone injection system to reach full potential.

The exhaust was custom made (with cats and super-traps) and exited thru the lower sill skirts right in front of the rear wheels on each side.

So after a couple of years of trial and error, it was up and running. Sounded evil. Looked evil. I thought it would be the bomb. It was sort of. Now that I had assembled all these cool parts and put them together with such care, it was time to develop them to work together in harmony, which was another task entirely. Drove it maybe 6 months, then realized it was going to be a project that never really would end, so I sold it for a handsome sum to a young Alfa nut overseas.

I'll try to dig up the few pics I have and scan them some time.

I laugh when these guys say I'm anti-tuning - I'm just anti-sticking it to the dealer/manufacturer when it comes to the warranty;-)

customfab

he is a troll dont bother educating him