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After a little welding job the trunk lid was painted red again (Ferrari rosso l300).
The Vegas finally are powder coated, tyres 185/70 R 14 (with tubes) are mounted. The steering needs less effort when driving in a bend or parking compared to the former 195/60 R 15 Bridgestone. However steering characteristics offer a very good increase in handwheel force over lateral g's.
These are the Alfa participants of the 2008 Neuenbürg Event in the old castle yard.
Why not supporting environmental protection with our historic cars? Here is an easy and cost effective way to integrate a catalytic converter into the exhaust system. I use the Tenneco Walker Mini Converter. I has a diameter of 55.5 mm and was planned to use in the Audi Coupe 2.3l 5-Cyl. (Walker type no. 52590-03W). Other diamerters (42.5 mm, 45.5 mm, 50.5 mm) are also available.
The converter is intergrated in the exhaust pipe just behind the 2 in 1 tube of my CSC sports exhaust system with stainless steel pipe clamps. Sealing compound is recommended. It should be mounted as near as possible to engine's exhaust ports.
There is no special engine control system. I run stock Weber 40 DCOE carbs. Ok, this is not very effective in terms of emission reduction but better than nothing. I can't measure any significant engine power reduction due to the streamlined sheet metal catalyst technology.
Here are the original chromed Bosch high beams mounted on the GT junior. You see the protector caps I taylored last year.
Saturday, 28th of June I finished 3rd at the historic rallye of the Motor Sport Club Weil der Stadt.
It's not worth complaining but I could have been first in my class. At trial no. 3 my bicycle odometer showed wrong speed values. I couldn't keep the average speed of 30 kph and got 33 penalty points - what a mess!
Tho photo shows a BMW Dixi with a rare "Ihle 600" body behind the Volvo. The BMW- or Dixi Ihle has a wooden handmade body on a 3/15PS chassis manufactured between 1930 and 1934.
Recently I got the chance to buy a set of four aluminum wheels. They are called MOMO "Vega" dated from 1972. MOMO is an italian manufacturer - you might know their steering wheel collection. The size is 6 x 14" fitting exactly on the Alfa GT junior. I found out that the rims are rather 6.5 that 6.0 inches. This will give a good cornering stiffnes with my Barum 185/70 R 14 classic tires. There is no H2 hump - so there is no chance to use tubeless tires. The well known Alfa hub caps of the 5-spoke Cromodora CD-35 wheel are supplied with these outstanding contemporary wheels.
The wheels must be glas-sanded and re-painted. Silver paint or two-colour black/silver would be nice. Even powder coating would be possible.
The engine finally is reassembled and the new cylinder head on top. You can see the intake prolongation parts (+40 mm) between the Webers and the head. Because of these the air filter is very near to the left fender. I had to move the MSD 6 ignition box to the firewall (under the ignition coil).
I left my concept an fitted a different exhaust cam. It's a Heimbach 30A cam (278° duration, 10,0 mm lift, 0,30 mm valve clearance).
Suddenly the needle of the original Jaeger "benzina" gauge got stuck. It was not an electrical problem as I though on a first glance but the potentiometer strip inside the in-tank sender had reached the end of it's life. As a first aid I repaired the broken wire with a constantan resistor wire (see next photo). 
Later I dismantled an old fuel level sender and made a repaired new one out of the two old parts. The potentiometer housing can be opened easily by bending three sheet metal clamps.
Now everything works fine again. It would be wishful to have some more damping at the needle. To achieve this the friction between the potentiometer pick-up axle and the sheet metal plate (electric ground) can be increased by fitting a small shim. The eight screws on the flange are M8 x 12.
The valve clearence compensation problem on the intake side is solved by modified tappets. The bottom of the right tappet is machined on a lathe down to 6.60 mm thickness instead of 7.30 mm. Alfa 105 tappets (left) usually only have 3.25 mm.
The new tuning tappet (right) has 42 g. This is a 3 g saving over the original Alfa 105 tappet. Now valve clearing compensation with Alfa shims which are available from 1.50 to 3.50 mm thickness is possible in combination with reground camshafts. A good adress to find these tappets ist histo:tec in Germany or tuning shops supplying Volkwagen/Audi parts. So called "mechanical tappets" are available for VW Golf GTI or Audi 20V engines to replace the hydraulic ones to achieve higher revs. They must have a diameter of nearly 35 mm.
This year's Tiefenbronn Classic an Sunday, 21st of June had a lenght of about 130 km between the nothern part of the Black Forest and the river Enz wine region. Almost 200 cars and 20 historic bikes participated. Among them were former Mille Miglia competitors Herbert Linge and Paul Ernst Strähle with their historic beetle and Porsche 356 "V2". Among the ancient heroes we also met Eberhard Mahle, Günter Steckkönig and Paul Hensler - all familiar with historic Porsche cars.
